Iran has set up a court to try Israelis for its air attacks on Gaza and is ready to try in absentia any people who Tehran says have committed "crimes," a judiciary official has said.
A prominent Iranian-Canadian blogger has been detained and his case is being investigated, Iran's judiciary said today in the first official public confirmation about his whereabouts.
Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has presented an economic reform bill expected to include hiking fuel prices and directing subsidies to the needy, but some in parliament said it was ill-planned and would stoke inflation.
Iranian security officers have raided the private law office of Shirin Ebadi, a prominent human rights defender and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, after identifying themselves as tax officials.
Iranian opposition leaders have claimed victory in their campaign to ensure continued U.S. protection for 3,500 fellow exiles in a camp north of Baghdad that the Iraqi government says it wants to close.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, who has found himself sandwiched between the demands of an influential neighbor, Iran, and the presence of a large occupation force of mostly U.S. soldiers, assured Iranian leaders during a recent visit to Tehran that a "solution acceptable to all parties" was imminent to the contentious issue of an Iranian rebel camp on Iraqi soil.
A group of Iranian hard-line clerics is signing up volunteers to fight in the Gaza Strip in response to Israel's air strikes that have killed at least 300 Palestinians, a news agency has reported.
Shahnaz Gholami, an Iranian online journalist and rights activist who was arrested last month, has gone on hunger strike in a Tabriz city prison.
Iranian security services recently arrested five dervishes -- members of the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Muslim community -- without any official charges in southern Hormozgan Province.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued on December 28 a religious decree to Muslims around the world, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel's attacks on Gaza, state television said.
Iran will send its first ship carrying aid to the Gaza Strip despite an Israeli naval blockade of the Hamas-controlled territory, state television reported.
The U.S. Justice Department is alleging that a 36-story skyscraper in Manhattan is secretly co-owned by an Iranian bank with ties to the government in Tehran. Prosecutors are seeking to seize the property and freeze millions of dollars in assets they say belong to the bank.
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