Iranian women and girls who are used to debating in democratic/open forums.

About 12 top Iranian government officials are ready to quit and force hard-liners to overturn a decision to bar hundreds of liberal candidates from a national election.

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran and Egypt have decided to restore full diplomatic relations and are expected do so within days, a top Iranian official declared after Tehran's city council removed a key sticking ...

TEHRAN, Iran - Reformist lawmakers staging a sit-in protest in parliament vowed Friday to begin a fast in an attempt to force the reversal of the disqualification of more than 3,000 candidates from ...

Showtime, the leading pay-TV network in the Middle East and North Africa, has launched its latest entertainment exclusive – Hollywood Blockbuster Movies subtitled in Farsi. The first ever such ...

Tehran, Jan 31 - Iran's disciplinary forces have announced the launching of a project in Tehran and 10 out of 28 Iranian provinces, aimed at boosting social and public security. The IRIP's message in ...

October 30, 2004 -- When the Americans go to the polls on Tuesday they would do well to remember two events that have altered their lives forever. The first was the raid on the US Embassy in Tehran, ...

Not giving platform, sharing resources and the little knowledge we have with socially committed people who operate inside Iran, albeit all their limitations and/or ...

Washington, D.C., Nov. 1, 2004 - The Voice of America's daily Persian-language television program News and Views will air a special one-hour election night television broadcast from 11:30 p.m. on Nov.

The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a joint programme of the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), requests your ...

have never been a pillar of U.S. foreign policy and it is hard to believe that it will be. The U.S. administrations basically do not want democracy - any reading of it -in the Middle East. There is a ...

Mrs. Ebadi's 2003 Peace Nobel Prize is a wonderful event for reformists and ...