Iran sanctions ‘putting millions of lives at risk’
Millions of lives are at risk in Iran because western economic sanctions are hitting the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, the country’s top medical charity has
Millions of lives are at risk in Iran because western economic sanctions are hitting the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, the country’s top medical charity has
Cartoonists have condemned the conviction of an Iranian colleague given a sentence of 25 lashes for drawing a caricature of a local MP that was
Good news about the situation of journalists behind bars in Iran is rare, especially these days when the regime has stepped up its crackdown on any sign
Good news about the situation of journalists behind bars in Iran is rare, especially these days when the regime has stepped up its crackdown on any sign
Iranian censors have blocked access to a number of news websites sympathetic to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , adding further fuel to a high-level power struggle
Marzieh Rasouli, Parastoo Dokouhaki and Sahamoddin Bourghani had worked for reformist media outlets At least three prominent journalists have been arrested in Iran in a fresh crackdown
Saeed Malekpour faces imminent execution on basis of confessions he retracted in letter, saying they had been beaten out of him Iran’s supreme court has
At least 33 Iranian MPs have been banned from running in March’s elections, prompting calls for a boycott of the poll Iran’s interior ministry
Ahmad Salamatian, a former Iranian MP based in Paris and a critic of the regime, said he believed the elections would pose a bigger challenge
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Caracas looking to expand ties and lessen impact of sanctions The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is due to touch down inVenezuela on
ran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has become the latest leader to find himself on the receiving end of that popular Middle Eastern method of protest – the thrown
Iran’s foreign minister, nuclear chief and oil minister have had their EU travel restrictions completely or temporarily lifted The European Union has been criticised for lifting travel
Iran has arrested, questioned and intimidated relatives of journalists working for the London-based BBC Persian Television in its latest crackdown on press freedom. It comes just two weeks
The Nobel-prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez is revered for his evocation of a surreal and sometimes dangerous world where nothing is quite what it
The picture looks like a 16th-century Persian miniature. The wise man on the right is lecturing his companions who kneel dutifully in front of him,
Sunni Muslims in Tehran have been banned from congregating at prayers marking the end of Ramadan. Iran, a Shia country, ordered its Sunni minority not
Human rights groups have expressed concern over the fate of Kouhyar Goudarzi, a prominent Iranian activist who was arrested last month by plainclothes security forces.
The son of an Iranian doctor who was killed after examining the rape victims of the country’s 2009 unrest has spoken for the first time
The conviction of two Americans held in Iran for spying and illegally crossing the border has been condemned by a human rights group. Amnesty International said the eight-year
A disturbing video of the public execution of three men in Iran has sparked anger among human rights activists. The graphic video, released by Amnesty International on Thursday, showed guards
A senior commander of Iran’s revolutionary guards, who is subject to comprehensive international sanctions, has been nominated as the country’s oil minister, a position that
Britain, the US and Canada have approved a new round of travel restrictions targeting the Iranian regime, including members of the judiciary and prison officials.
Human rights activists have raised serious concerns about a lawyer who fell foul of Iran’s Islamic regime for highlighting the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the woman
A prominent Iranian documentary film-maker and women’s rights activist, whose work includes banned films about Iran’s society, has been arrested by unidentified officials. Mahnaz Mohammadi, 37,
Human rights activists have raised concerns about the health of almost 20 Iranian political prisoners who have been on hunger strike for more than a week.