Iran Vote: Political Freedoms Must Be Rouhani’s Top Priority
Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly of ...
Electorate Wants Human Rights and Rouhani Must Deliver March 1, 2016—In the elections for Parliament and the Assembly of ...
Telegram Has Emerged as Major Platform for Reformist and Centrist Candidates Iran’s Telecommunication’s Ministry has been under intense pressure ...
The Iranian government, in a joint project with several domestic universities, is spending $36 million to develop what it ...
Four convicted staff members of a leading Iranian technology website who were free on bail while awaiting an Appeals Court ...
An Iranian activist imprisoned for his social media activity has gone on a wet hunger strike to protest the Judiciary’s ...
Authorities Block App within 24 Hours of Its Debut A smartphone application aimed at helping Iranian users avoid the country’s morality police became ...
February 1, 2016— Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should extend all efforts to obtain the release of Saeed Malekpour, a Canadian resident ...
Increased foreign investment and access to foreign companies’ technology products in Iran now that sanctions against Tehran have been lifted will not ...
The release of Iranian-Americans in the recent prisoner exchange between Iran and the United States has given hope to the ...
“Why has the Islamic Republic agreed to the release of Iranian-American prisoners but they won’t free our own prisoners who ...
The head of Telegram, the most popular social media network in Iran, has again categorically denied making any concessions ...
The Islamic Republic of Iran’s near total monopoly on the broadcast of film and television series has effectively ended following ...
Amin Anvari’s mother, Farah Bakhshi Student activist Amin Anvari, 21, who ...
Saeed Malekpour Prisoner of Conscience, Serving Life Sentence, is Finally Allowed In-Person Family Visits ...
Soheil Arabi and his family Soheil Arabi, whose death sentence for ...
Arash Zad, Information Technology Expert Nearly two months after the arrest ...
The popular instant messaging service Telegram has dismissed claims by Iranian officials that a third of the data from ...
On September 5, 2015, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei re-appointed the members of ...
Naghmeh Shahsavandi Shirazi One of the eight Facebook activists sentenced to long prison sentences in 2013 for social and political commentary posted on their Facebook pages, ...
The Telegram messenger service confirmed on June 29 that problems which have emerged in its service in Iran were due to domestic technical issues inside the country. In a message on its Twitter ...
The death sentence against Facebook user Soheil Arabi for allegedly insulting the Prophet has been annulled, his lawyer told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. “On June 27, I heard the death sentence ...
Officials hope Salam will lure users away from applications such as Viber and WhatsApp ...
An appeals court in Tehran has sentenced six individuals to prison terms ranging from five to seven years for postings on their Facebook pages. Two additional ...
The Rouhani administration should use all its authority to end the government’s initiatives to restrict Iranians’ access to the Internet, immediately cease state efforts to monitor users’ online accounts, and end the prosecution of individuals for their peaceful online activities, ...
Developing national email providers has also been a component of government efforts to control and access online content and activities. In 2012, Reza Taghipour, Minister of Telecommunication in the Ahmadinejad administration, wrote letters to his deputy and the Central ...