Hamed Nour-Mohammadi, a fourth-year biology student at Shiraz University, was thrown off Namazi Bridge in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, eyewitnesses said. (photo and
Following the announcement by the Islamic Republic’s security forces that a cyber-police squad had been formed, it was interesting to note the recent creation of
A day after a university student was shot to death during anti-regime protests in Tehran, a battle is waging for his soul. Saneh Jaleh, 26,
The opposition has announced its intention to demonstrate on 14 February 2011 (25 Bahman in the Iranian calendar). I’ll be regularly updating this scrapbook to
Two suicide bombers killed at least 30 people and injured 55 in a mourning procession in Chabahar on Wednesday morning, according to news reports in
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has unceremoniously replaced Manouchehr Mottaki, the longtime foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, with the head of the country’s Atomic Energy Agency, Ali
I have started compiling video, photos, and information concerning protests on Student Day, 7 December 2010, at 3:15 PM GMT. My aim is to give
Students at Tehran University’s Technical College defied a security clampdown to stage a protest on their campus on the eve of Student Day, according to
On a Tuesday morning a month ago, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went to the holy city of Qom to regain some of his legitimacy as the
Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani’s recent election as chairman of the majority faction has highlighted the cracks in the pro-regime Principlist camp and the ambiguous nature
Footage recently posted on the Internet shows last week’s gunfight in front of a police station in Sanandaj, Iran, on Thursday, October 7, 2010. The
At least ten people were killed in a bomb blast during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, on Wednesday morning, 22 September 2010,
At least eleven people were killed in a bomb blast during a military parade in Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province, on Wednesday morning, 22 September 2010,
A senior official in the Ahmadinejad cabinet strongly denounced what he described as the ‘undesirable situation of the press’ in the Islamic Republic during a
The Italian city of Genoa renamed one of its squares ‘Rotonda Donne di Teheran’ (Women of Tehran Square) in the Fiumara commercial district as part
A conservative news site published a photo report showing that the strike in Tehran’s Bazaar continued on Thursday, July 15, 2010. The web site, Alef,
Earlier this week, the head of the Islamic Republic’s radio-television broadcaster (IRIB), Ezatollah Zarghami, canceled his trip to the Netherlands where he was to have
Following three days of strikes in Tehran’s Bazaar over increased taxes on tradesmen, a semi-official news site launched an attack on rug merchants because they
A video posted by Jonbesheh Raheh Sabz on Thursday, June 1, 2010, allegedly shows Principlist Majlis representatives mumbling a prayer after the Prophet Muhammed is
Painting the Iranian people’s struggle for freedom with the broad brushstrokes of history, popular Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë invoked his own city’s tumultuous battles for
Protesters projected a short film documenting the unrest and crackdown following the disputed election onto the facade of the Islamic Republic’s embassy in London, south
Video posted to the Internet purports to show heavy security in the Iranian capital on the first anniversary of the disputed election of June 12,
A new video posted on the Internet shows the last moments of Neda Agha Soltan. It also provides a fleeting glance at the face of
In a video posted to YouTube, the Paris chapter of Where Is My Vote announced its intention to organize a human chain of green-clad, masked
A young Iranian director’s short film has garnered enough votes to be among the 18 finalists of the Democracy Challenge competition, organized by the US
