Full Coverage: Iran

10.10.2009 There will be a celebration at 5.30pm at Grosvenor Square, opposite the US Embassy, to celebrate the Iraqi government's the release of 36 people seized from a camp for Iranian dissidents in Iraq. In London, hunger-strikers ended their 72-day sympathy fast to mark the group's return to Camp Ashraf.

03.10.2009 The execution in Iran on Monday of Afghan national Abbas Hosseini for a murder he is accused of committing when he was only 17 must be stopped, says Amnesty International.

14.07.2009 The arrest of another six journalists cements Iran's position as the world's worst jailer of journalists, says an international media freedom organisation.

20.03.2009 Prison authorities in Iran are further punishing prisoners by denying them medical treatment, an international rights group said after the second death in custody in less than two weeks as a result of denial of treatment.

18.01.2009 Timothy Garton Ash in the Guardian applauds the launch of BBC Persian TV, even though BBC cameras are banned from Iran.

31.12.2008 The Iranian government is urged to end its escalating persecution of Dr. Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel peace laureate and a leading human rights defender.

26.12.2008 Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad delivered Channel 4's alternative Christmas address yesterday, sending a message of "happiness, prosperity, peace and brotherhood for humanity" which immediately ignited a furious row.

23.12.2008 Closure of the Tehran-based Human Rights Defenders Centre by some 20 plain-clothes Iranian police has been condemned by a media freedom group.

10.10.2008 At least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries last year - though the real figure is certainly higher - with 88 per cent occurring in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

11.09.2008 Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries - Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen - would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, says a leading rights organisation.

05.09.2008 The six-month prison sentences imposed on four Iranian cyber-feminists for "publishing information against the government" are an outrage, says a media freedom group.

25.07.2008 Petroleum-fuelled prosperity is masking the challenge of oil depletion and removing the sense of urgency that is desperately needed to promote diversification in oil-exporting states, a report warns.

30.04.2008 General David Petraeus' new job may put him in position to follow through on his saber-rattling against Iran, says a Washington think tank.

15.04.2008 Saudi Arabia had the highest number of executions per capita, followed by Iran and Libya, according to a new Amnesty survey that says 88 per cent of all known executions took place in China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the US.

10.04.2008 Iran has unexpectedly liberal ideas about contraception and assisted reproduction techniques, the result of pragmatic decisions, and consequent laws, arrived at by Shia interpretations of religious tenets. By Elizabeth OÂ’Donnell.

03.04.2008 The power struggle between the Iraqi government and Shi'a cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's militia -- most recently encapsulated in the "collapse" of the U.S. backed Basra offensive and Sadr's cease fire -- testify to the failure of the "surge," writes Phyllis Bennis.

14.03.2008 Iranian authorities have disqualified scores of candidates, predominantly from reformist factions, from the parliamentary elections taking place today, indicating the vote will be neither free nor fair, says a human rights watchdog.
From: Human Rights Watch

06.03.2008 In the wake of the UN Security Council's decision to tighten economic sanctions on Iran due to its continued uranium enrichment program, Scott Ritter outlines several reasons why he believes patience and diplomacy are most likely to promote moderation and reform within the Iranian government.

25.02.2008 A collection of photos taken in Tehran and Qom explores the intersection of the theocratic state and everyday life in Iran.

30.01.2008 The "U.N. Security Council (UNSC) is set to lose its credibility once again as it prepares to impose a third set of sanctions on Iran while failing to pass any strictures on Israel for its continued heavy-handed repression of Palestinians in Gaza," says a research organization focused on the Middle East.