Six members of Iran’s Ahwazi Arab minority are due to go on trial in Iran on May 20, amid fears that they will not receive a fair trial and may be at risk of torture or death sentence, an international rights groups warned on Friday. The men were detained without charge for almost a year and all were arrested in connection with their activities on behalf of Iran ...

Jailed Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi has been transferred to Zanjan Prison. The Melli-Mazhabi website reports that Mohammadi, the deputy head of the Centre for Human Rights Defenders of Iran, was transferred to Zanjan Prison from the Evin Prison infirmary in Tehran. Taghi Rahmani, another Iranian activist who is currently abroad, reported this ...

An oil tanker belonging to Iran’s state-owned shipping line has been switching flags and using multiple companies to transport crude from Syria to Iran, illustrating how Tehran is helping to sidestep international efforts to choke the finances of Bashar al-Assad, Syrian president. Documents obtained by the Financial Times show the vessel, operated by the Islamic ...

Kaveh Ghoreishi A student group active in defending the rights of those students who are denied higher education has criticized the policies of Iran’s minister of science research and technology Kamran Daneshjoo and declared that Ahmadinejad’s administration is pursuing a second cultural revolution by practicing “educational apartheid.” In its report, Shoraye De ...

Syria remains the top destination for Iranian arms shipments in violation of a UN Security Council ban on weapons exports by the Islamic Republic, according to a UN report. Iran, like Russia, is one of Syria’s few allies as it presses ahead with a 14-month old assault on opposition forces determined to oust Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The confidenti ...

The head of Iran’s Quds force, Qassem Suleimani has warned the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah against waging any pre-emptive war on Israel, according to a website affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps. On Wednesday, Javan Online published a story about recent talks between Suleimani and the leader of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah. The commander of ...

Special operations units of the Iranian army and Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Tuesday, May 14, began a two-day practice of offensive tactics, for the first time dropping large-scale forces from the air deep behind enemy lines. The many war games Iran has conducted until now focused on defenses of strategic and nuclear locations and repelling invaders. This drill ...

Close to 130 Iranian journalists have called on the judiciary chief as well as the speaker of parliament to take action against the on-going repression of journalists in the country. In a letter to brothers Ali and Sadegh Larijani, the journalists expressed their awe and outrage at the authorities’ ineptitude in dealing with massive corruption scandals on the one ...

An Israeli advocacy group won a $323 million judgment in a U.S. court against Iran and Syria for supporting Palestinian armed groups which killed an American teenager and ten others in a 2006 bombing, the group’s director said Tuesday. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of the Shurat HaDin Israel Law Center that represents victims of Palestinian violence said Tuesday that ...

Iranian physicist sentenced to prison Omid Kokabee gets 10 years in jail for ‘communicating with a hostile government’ by: Michele Catanzaro Omid Kokabee, an Iranian graduate student who has been imprisoned in Tehran for the past 15 months, was sentenced to 10 years on Sunday for allegedly conspiring with foreign countries against Iran. Judge Abolghasem Salav ...