Reports from Iran say lawmakers have called for a debate on President Mahmud Ahmadinejad's apparent boycott of his official duties.
The wife of jailed Iranian filmmaker and writer Mohammad Nourizad says he has been on hunger strike for the past 40 days.
Family and supporters of jailed Iranian union leader Mansour Osanlu have renewed appeals for authorities to let him out for medical treatment, saying his health condition has worsened.
At least 11 Iranian political prisoners have been transferred to a prison outside of Tehran known for its harsh conditions.
Gonabadi dervishes are reported to have converged on the northeastern Iranian city of Beydokht this week to protest the summoning of their leader to court.
For more than 30 years they were at daggers drawn. Now, after the downfall of President Hosni Mubarak in February, Egypt and Iran are in the midst of a thaw that could see the restoration of diplomatic ties, frozen since Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution.
There are many people in the outside world who would like to make the regime in Tehran more accountable to its own people. But how?
Workers at the Alborz tire factory near Tehran have rallied in front of Iran's presidential office to demand nine months' of unpaid wages and the reopening of the plant.
There seem to be increasing tensions between Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Mahmud Ahmadinejad.
Iran and Iraq have signed an extradition agreement, the latest step in warming relations between the neighboring countries, which fought a war in the 1980s.
A senior military official says Iran has been hit by a second computer virus in a "cyberwar" waged by its enemies.
The legal representative of a prominent Iranian human rights lawyer, believed missing for two weeks, now says he has been found detained at an Intelligence Ministry facility in northwestern Iran.
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