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House leaders are pushing for tougher penalties on Iran to thwart its nuclear ambitions, introducing a bipartisan bill Wednesday that would pressure the U.S. to work with the European Union in cutting off Tehran's access to the euro.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry has accused the Green Voice of Freedom and a number of other Persian-language media outlets of being part of network set up by British intelligence.
A court in Iran has sentenced human rights lawyer to six years in prison, sources report.
Iranian authorities have arrested an Islamic scholar from Iraq, according to media reports.
A never before seen video clip that shows Mir Hossein Mousaiv, a leader in Iran’s pro-democracy Green Movement, while doing art.
A major political group in the European Parliament has called for the immediate release of Iran’s opposition leaders Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Mousavi’s wife Zahra Rahnavard, two years after the start of their arbitrary house arrest.
Assailants shot dead an Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander in Syria while he was travelling by road from Damascus towards the Lebanese capital, the Iranian authorities said on Thursday.
Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi and six human rights groups have called on the Iranian authorities to “immediately” release from arbitrary house arrest the leaders of the country’s opposition Green Movement Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard.
Senior Iranian lawmakers are demanding an investigation into the incident involving the country's parliament speaker in the seminary city of Qom.
Iranian authorities held and questioned two daughters of detained opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and the son of fellow opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi for several hours on Monday, opposition websites reported.