Sepanta Niknam, 32, is the first Zoroastrian who has served as a city councilor in Yazd and the only non-Muslim in all city councils in Iran. However, he was suspended.
Ward 350 at Tehran’s notorious prison, Evin, has reportedly been shut down after images of three outspoken prisoners were widely circulated on social media.
Iranian parliament’s Audit Court has announced that former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the last 18 months of his presidency, spent 4.6 trillion tomans or approximately $1.3 billion of Iran’s oil income “illegally”.
Security forces in Iran prevented former President Mohammad Khatami from leaving his house on Wednesday.
A special committee has been formed to investigate the scandal in Tehran Municipality called “Astronomical Property Sellout,”, Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi disclosed at his first press conference.
The prosecutor-general for Mashhad in Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran says a man convicted of robbery has had his hand amputated.
A former judge and assistant prosecutor-general, Ali Akbar Heidari-Fard, has disclosed new details that could help solve the puzzle of Kahrizak, a notorious detention center near Tehran where at least five young protesters died shortly after being tortured.
In a letter to grand ayatollahs (Shi’ite sources of emulation), the daughters of Green Movement leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have bitterly criticized Iranian officials for what they call “skipping their responsibility.”
U.S. President Donald Trump's announcement to "decertify" Iran on its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear accord has sent ripples throughout the Middle East and Europe, raising questions on everything from U.S. obligations to international agreements to whether Tehran will respond with more covert activity in the region.
Many Iranians have taken to social media to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump for taking a harder line on the Islamic republic and decertifying the 2015 landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, which is believed to enjoy significant support in the country.
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