The family of an Australian-Iranian grandfather who has been held in a notorious Tehran prison for more than a year has issued an urgent plea to the Morrison government to help secure his release.
The Social Deputy of Iran’s Cyber Police (FATA) said yesterday that three people who had published false news with the goal of “creating ambiguity” on election day were detained.
President Hassan Rouhani, and close associates, vice-President Es'haq Jahangiri and presidential candidates Abdolnaser Hemmati, have been threatened with prosecution by candidates over mismanaging the country and making decisions allegedly detrimental to the national interest.
The frontrunner in Iran’s presidential race was part of a “death commission” which facilitated mass executions of political dissidents, Iranian activists told AFP.
Several videos received by Iran International from various cities show that some polling stations were virtually deserted at midday local time, as the Islamic Republic has been urging people to show their support by casting ballots.
Today an as-yet undeclared proportion of the Iranian electorate has gone to the polls to select the country’s next president, from an approved list of four. The reformist camp is still divided on the issue of whether ...
Reports indicate that there are empty polling stations across Iran on election day. Most Iranians had called for a massive boycott of the vote months before elections.
A State Department spokesperson expressed disgust this week with the Islamic Republic of Iran’s refusal to release the imprisoned California resident Jamshid Sharmahd, who is being held in Iran as his health condition worsens and without legal ...
Iranian state media have been acknowledging for weeks that this Friday’s presidential election will have low turnout. Now, it seems as if groups as diverse as pensioners, university students, and middle class investors have all staged protests ...
Two years after November 2019, Iran’s society has yet to forget the bloody crackdown on hundreds of thousands of protesters in around 200 cities across the country. At the time, Iranian citizens flooded onto the streets protesting ...
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