Iranian police have detained three women's rights activists, the latest in dozens of such arrests over the last few years in the Islamic Republic, a fellow campaigner said on February 1.
A high-level delegation from Hamas arrived in Tehran early on February 1 as part of a regional push to reinforce support for the Palestinian group after the Israeli invasion of Gaza, a Hamas official said.
Levin said cooperation between Russia and the United States on missile defense could "change the entire dynamic vis-a-vis the world and Iran."
“The Washington Times” writes on January 30 about a meeting that apparently took place last year between former U.S. Defense Secretary William J. Perry and a senior adviser to Iran’s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
An influential Iranian cleric and politician has criticized the new U.S. administration for signaling that it reserved all its options, ranging from diplomacy to military action, to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.
An Iranian presidential candidate has criticized comments by Iranian armed forces chief General Hassan Firuz Abadi pledging support to President Mahmud Ahmadinejad in the June presidential election.
More than 120 political and social activists whose judicial cases were handled by Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi and her colleagues at the Center of Human Rights Defenders have expressed concern over the closure of the center in Tehran, RFE/RL's Radio Farda reports.
Iranian human rights activists are welcoming reports of a letter being drafted by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama that seeks to renew diplomatic relations with Tehran.
President Barack Obama's administration has signaled that the United States reserved all its options, ranging from diplomacy to military action, to pressure Iran over its nuclear program.
The family of ethnic Azeri activist Abdullah Abbasi Javan says he has been held incommunicado in Tehran's Evin prison for more than two months without being charged.
Officials of U.S. President Barack Obama's administration are drafting a letter to Iran from the president aimed at unfreezing U.S.-Iranian relations and opening the way for face-to-face talks, Britain's "Guardian" newspaper has reported.
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