Karaj, Iran News

MANILA More than a hundred people supported a charity bazaar held in Iran to help Pinoy victims recover from the devastation wrought by several typhoons in the Philippines.

The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering new methods of struggle, and refusing to die despite widespread government violence.

The presidential election of June 12, which Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared to have won, gave birth to a grassroots movement that has been evolving politically, embracing broader segments of the population, discovering new methods of struggle, and refusing to die despite widespread government violence.

Happy Student Day to you the student who is: a hooligan! naive! an agent of a foreign adversary! a threat to public safety! a spy! a fake intellectual! a traitor! [ feature ] Since Iranian universities reopened in September, opposition protests have been reported -- and many times documented -- across the country, including in Ahvaz, Gilan, Shiraz ...

MP Fatemeh Ajorlou is the most favored candidate for the post of Tehran governor, women's news agency IWAN reported.

To coincide with the 2009 Frieze Art Fair, Candlestar is working with the luxury five-star hotel Hyatt Regency - The Churchill , Frieze's official Hotel Partner, to present Iran Unbowed an exhibition of work by leading contemporary Iranian artists.

By Fatemeh Sadeghi, Alborz Excerpts translated by Frieda Afary, Iranian Progressives in Translation Fatemeh Sadeghi has a PhD in political science and has taught at the Islamic Azad University of Karaj near Tehran.

By Shadi Sadr Translated by Frieda Afary, Iranian Progressives in Translation Translator's Note: Shadi Sadr is a young feminist attorney and journalist who has been in the forefront of women's rights struggles in Iran during the past few years.

An American fugitive, accused of murdering an aide to the late Shah of Iran in the United States, was made an editor of Iran's English-language television network in Tehran.

Winners of the 6th Bismillah Festival were announced in a ceremony held at the Niavaran Cultural Center on Friday evening.

Two men convicted of rape have been executed by hanging in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the Etemad newspaper reported yesterday.

The Iranian people are calling for help and much of the world either turns a deaf ear or feels it has its own priorities to worry about.

A training plane crashed west of the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday, killing two people on board, state radio reported.

A plane used for flight training crashed in northern Iran on Saturday, killing two people on board, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Following a series of EU criticisms regarding Iran 's nuclear ambitions and human rights practices, the Swedish EU presidency has spoken out against Iran's recent execution of 24 people by hanging.

The death sentences, which were carried out at the infamous Karaj prison, are the latest in a growing spate of executions that have seen Iran impose the death penalty more than any state apart from China.

The death sentences, which were carried out at the infamous Karaj prison, are the latest in a growing spate of executions that have seen Iran impose the death penalty more than any state apart from China.

The eight weeks between the presidential election on 12 June and the inauguration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a second term as president on 5 August saw an alarming spike in the number of executions by the Iranian authorities, Amnesty International said today.

There has been a huge increase in the number of executions in Iran since June's presidential elections, according to Amnesty International.

Iran hanged 24 convicted drug traffickers in a prison last week in one of the country's biggest mass executions, the Etemad newspaper reported on Wednesday.