The festival is being jointly organized by Owj Media Organization, Tasnim News Agency, Cyber Hezbollah, Nasr TV, Besharat Organization and Seraj Virtual Space Organization. The competition, which will accept photos (jpg), posters, caricatures, documentaries, video clips (flv format) , songs, articles and blog posts, will focused…
Read More →Iranian and French parliamentarians discussed ways to open a new chapter in the nations’ bilateral relations. In a meeting that took place in Tehran on October 23 between Chairman of the Majlis Legal and Judicial Commission Allahyar Malekshahi and French Senators Joelle Garriaud-Maylam and Jean-Yves Leconte,…
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Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida is slated to visit Tehran on November 9th. Kishida will meet with President Rouhani and his counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif to discuss various issues of mutual interests including the nuclear issue….
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Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs and Speaker of the Nuclear Negotiating team Abbas Araqchi will meet with the head of the IAEA in Vienna on October 28 to conduct technical and legal negotiations….
Read More →Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is due to present to the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee (NSFPC) a report on his recent nuclear talks with the P5+1. Zarif was scheduled to present a report on the Geneva meeting to Iranian lawmakers this week but…
Read More →Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) and former FM Ali Akbar Salehi said that Iran is “considering construction of nuclear power plants along the coasts of the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea as well as in central parts of Iran but priority is given to the…
Read More →The draft, which was presented by Rouhani’s government and previously approved by the Majlis Budget and Planning Committee, envisages a significant reduction in some revenues of approximately $12 billion, i.e from $84 billion to $72 billion, as President Rouhani doubted the previous figure to be realistic….
Read More →Production at the Rhum field was halted back in 2010 as part of unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran by the EU and the US. The Rhum field, which is co-owned by British Petroleum (BP) and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), was allowed to resume production to…
Read More →Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Committee (NSFPC) member and former senior commander in the IRGC Mohammad Saleh Jowkar said that “Some people presume that if we have good relations with the US, our economy will also improve. This is completely incorrect…our economic problems are due…
Read More →Iran has hanged seven convicts in the western province of Kermanshah. One of the convicts was a 26-year-old woman, Nastaran Safari, who had spent seven years in prison on charges of murder. Safari and six men were hanged in the early hours of October 21. …
Read More →Iran’s UN mission lashed out at a report by the UN’s Special Human Rights Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed on the situation of human rights in Iran, describing it void of the existing realities. The Iranian representative said the report “has not paid sufficient notice toIran’s legal system…
Read More →Eddie Romero was reportedly later released. The pastor’s daughter Sarah Yetter detailed her father motivation to launch the protest in front of Iran’s most notorious prisons “The government of Iran has a well-documented history of jailing religious minorities. Pastor Eddie hopes that his protest and surrender in a…
Read More →Blogger Mohammad Reza Pourshajari, also known by his pen name of Siamak Mehr, is in urgent need of medical care that he cannot obtain in prison. Pourshajari is serving a four-year sentence in Ghezel Hesar Prison in Karaj. …
Read More →“She has had a very difficult time in solitary confinement, where she was beaten. she is currently imprisoned in the female section in notorious Evin Prison…” …
Read More →Pezhman Zafarmand , who was arrested a few days after the June 2013 presidential election, has been released on bail. Zafarmand worked in reformist candidate Mohammad Reza Aref’s election headquarters and following Aref’s withdrawal from the presidential race, joined President Hassan Rouhani’s campaign. Since his arrest,…
Read More →The International Iranians University has opened a website. Iran’s former president attended the launching ceremony of the website. A declaration by the university and an article by Ahmadinejad have been uploaded on the occasion of Eid al-Ghadeer….
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