A member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (Mosharekat) has been detained, opposition sources say. According to the Jaras website, Esmail Ali Mirzaei was arrested at his home in Iran’s West Azerbaijan Province. His family still have no information about the details of the arrest. Recently, Ali Mirzaei was reportedly harassed by the security bodies over his ...

With less than 4 weeks left till election day, Iran is witnessing a new round of summons of civil and political activists to Iran’s ministry of intelligence, non-extension of prison leaves and mass summons of prisoners on leave. In addition, two women political prisoners, whom Tehran’s prosecutor’s office called Mossad and CIA spies, were executed last week. Whi ...

Hossein Kazemeyni Borujerdi, the political prisoner of the Evin prison has been transferred to the solitaries of this prison. The security agents of the Evin prison have forced Mr. Kazemeyni Borujerdi the prisoner of the clergy section of this prison to go the solitaries. According to the human rights and democracy website he has been transferred to the solitarie ...

Shiva Nazarahari, human rights activist, founder and former head of Committee of Human Rights Reporters, returned to Evin prison today May 2, 2013. Nazarahari who had not requested prison leave was arbitrarily granted a second furlough on May 1st (mother’s day). She was contacted by personnel from the judicial authority and required to present herself back at Evi ...

The families of Iranian opposition leaders under house arrest announced today that statements attributed to their parents in the media is false and that MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have not made any assessments of the coming election. Mousavi and Karroubi, candidates in the 2009 presidential elections, have been under house arrest since February of 201 ...

Dr. Ghasem Shole Sadi, one of the candidates of the presidential elections has been summoned to the intelligence. According to a report, one night after meeting with some journalists and reformist youth and talking with them about the situation in Iran, Ghasem Shole Sadi has been summoned to be in the intelligence office in Araqi street. Dr. Ghasem Shole Sadi has ...

A previously unknown hacking group believed to be based in Iran has started cyber attacks inside the U.S., according to Mandiant Corp., a security company that’s linked China’s army to similar activity. The Iranian group emerged within the last six months and has infiltrated the networks of at least one U.S. corporation, Richard Bejtlich, Mandiant’s chief securit ...

Iran’s nuclear potential may have been significantly increased by the Stuxnet worm that is believed to have infected the country’s uranium enrichment facility at Natanz in 2009 and 2010, new research claims. The report, published in the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) journal, claims the Stuxnet worm exposed vulnerabilities in Iranian enrichme ...

Following the recent protests of the prisoners, there is more pressure been put on the prisoners of section 350 of Evin prison. According to a report, after the protests of the political prisoners in the section 350 of Evin prison which resulted transfer of 10 of them to solitaries for 10 days, an intelligence agent who has introduced himself as “Abbasi” is in th ...

Acourt in Nigeria has sentenced an alleged member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to five years in prison for arms smuggling. The Lagos court handed down the sentence on May 13 to Iranian citizen Azim Aghajani and his Nigerian accomplice, Ali Abbas Jega. The two men were detained in 2010 at the Lagos port after officials found that 13 container ...