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On Wednesday, September 26, 2012, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will address the United Nations General Assembly for the last time as President of the Islamic Republic of... Comment

Today, Sunday, August 26, 2012, at 3:00 p.m. EST, 12:00 p.m. PST, there will be a live debate between Dr. Muhammad Sahimi and Mr. Menashe... Comment

Rooz Online: Saeed Zeinali, 22, a Tehran University Computer Science graduate, was arrested at his home on July 10,1999, five days after the 5 July... Comment

Majzooban-e Noor: Hamid Reza and Saleh Moradi Sarvestani are Nematollahi Gonabadi Order dervishes. Hamid Reza Moradi Sarvestani headed Majzooban-e Noor, the website for the Order.... Comment

"Is it just sabre-rattling or should we worry about the war of words between Washington and Tehran? François Picard’s panel argues over the impact of... Comment

در بلندترین شب سال... کاری از محمد رضا کلانی، صدا: ایرج ادیب زاده، شعر هوشنگ ابتهاج، موسیقی مجید انتظامی، تهیه شده در گروه شهروندیار کلیپی... Comment

On the threshold of the second anniversary of the disputed 2009 presidential election in Iran, a shocking video of a young woman in Tehran has... Comment

With all the news I read everyday, I wish I would become insensitive to hearing bad news. I still feel sad when I read about... Comment

Today is May 1, the International Labor Day. This day is traditionally observed in Iran as "rooz-e kaargar." Over the past several years, however, it... Comment

This marks the third "Protest Tuesday" since the arrests of Mousavi and Karroubi, and the new awakening of Iran's protest movement. It also coincides with... Comment

Today, March 8 (17 Esfand), marks the International Women's Day. Supporters of Iran's women's movement, along with supporters of the Green Movement have planned to... Comment

عنوان: سرای سالمندان خبرگان اثر نیک آهنگ کوثر منبع: روز آنلاین اسفند 1389 Comment

And so, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, and Mehdi Karroubi and Fatemeh Karroubi, were first put under house arrest inside their own homes for... Comment

Last week's demonstrations ended in fresh violence and lost lives. The cruel cycle of directly shooting at and killing the unarmed protesters and then kidnapping... Comment

And so, here we are again. After months of silence achieved through unbelievably violent suppression, intimidation, arrests, torture, and executions, the people of Iran are... Comment

I would like to ask you to take a step back from where you are standing right at this moment, and imagine what kind of... Comment

Writing on an IranAir poster: Our Art Is Flying With Tied Wings I am heartsick for the new tragedy that led to another set of... Comment

There wasyesterday that YouTube has removed the video clip showing a group of Iranians participating at a September dinner held by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in New... Comment

Friday, September 3, 2010 is the last Friday of Ramadan, known as Quds Day in Iran. Watching the debate on Iranian blogs and websites, it's... Comment

"An Iranian Odyssey: Mossadegh, Oil, and the 1953 CIA Coup," directed by Maziar Bahari for the BBC, 2009: Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: Part... Comment

After weeks of far-fetched news and video clips about and by "the missing Iranian nuclear scientist," Shahram Amiri, Iranian state news websites announced today that... Comment

I was chatting with a friend who has for several months been working with a large group of volunteers to organize a June 12th protest... Comment

Today is the first anniversary of last year's presidential elections. In the aftermath of the spontaneous protests against elections fraud, dozens of Iranians lost their... Comment

There is news that Kurdistan Province has started a general strike to protest the May 9 executions of Farzad Kamangar, Shirin Alam Hooli, Mehdi Hosseinian,... Comment

در پی‌ نا‌ پدید شدن مجسمه‌های برنزی مشاهیر در ایران تندیس‌های شهر کجایند؟ کاری از مانا‌ نیستانی http://www.mardomak.org/cartoon/52304/ Comment

Today is May 1st, the International Labor Day, and tomorrow, May 2nd, will be National Teacher's Day in Iran. Labor activists such as Mansour Osanloo... Comment

Another occasion for protests is upon Iran.  In keeping with the by now standard procedure of defining the next occasion for protests, Charshanbeh Souri, the... Comment

They’ve got a nice little family business going, haven’t they? Their business is death and destruction, deceit, and duplicity. The three brothers now sit on... Comment

Thirty one years after the Islamic Revolution, two forces inside Iran come face to face tomorrow, February 11, 2010.  The Iranian regime, which has increasingly... Comment

This is the fourth blog I have created to keep track of developing news in Iran. Please bring any articles or news items you would... Comment