Woman’s Case Reflects Prisoners’ Treatment In Iran

(From AP)-The interrogator politely apologized for grilling the prisoner about her role in the mass protests over Iran’s disputed presidential election.

Iran: Updates from 8 Mordad (30 July)

From Tehran Bureau correspondent Saya Ovaisy:

Eyewitness account as told to Saya Ovaisy

University student, female, 23:

I arrived at Behesht Zahra cemetery at 3:30 pm. A crowd of two or three thousand people had gathered at section 257, where the post-election martyrs are buried. Most were dressed in black and many carried flowers (but no placards) and everyone prayed Quran suras aloud in unison.

Prominent Iranian Journalist Implicates Nokia In His Arrest

Issa Saharkhiz, a prominent journalist and former senior Culture Ministry official, has told his family in a short phone call from prison that several of his ribs were broken during his arrest in northern Iran on July 4 in the postelection crackdown.

Iran activists work to elude crackdown on Internet

By REBECCA SANTANA

The tweets still fly and the videos hit YouTube whenever protesters take to the streets in Iran — even as the Internet battle there turns more grueling.

Ayatollah Watch

By BENDIX ANDERSON – TEHERAN BOREAU

Since protests erupted in Iran after its disputed Presidential election, a growing number of influential Shia clerics have made statements in favor of the protesters.

The Ultimate Unveiling of Iranian Women

By FARZANEH MILANI

Have you considered the gender makeup of the two opposing camps in Iran today?

Iranians Demonstrate in Front of their Embassy in Brussels

Ahmadinejad slams presence of foreign forces in region

Daily Star 25 May 2009
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked the presence of foreign forces in the region at a summit with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Sunday aimed at tackling terrorism and other security problems. The three neighbors’ first such meeting, which ended with pledges of cooperation but without any specific measures being announced, took place as Pakistan and Afghanistan are battling the spread of Taliban insurgencies in their countries.

Reformist blasts Iran’s president over international isolation amid warnings of economic woes

The top reformist candidate in Iran’s presidential race blamed incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for the country’s isolation, while a leading global energy watchdog warned Thursday that the hard-line leader’s policies are worsening Iranian economic woes.

Pakistan frees nuclear smuggler and disgraced scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan

DISGRACED Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan has been freed after spending five years under house arrest for selling atomic secrets to Iran, North Korea and Libya in the world’s biggest nuclear proliferation scandal.