Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of political dissident under house arrest since February 2011 Mehdi Karroubi, has written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decrying the continued confiscation of personal items security forces took in February 2013. “On February 11, 2013, security forces accompanying a representative from the Prosecutor’s Office, who had […]
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Refugee Iranian Photojournalist In Turkish Security Prison
The Turkish authorities arrested Hossein Salmanzadeh, an Iranian photojournalist and a refugee in Turkey, on April 26 and have detained him inside the Ankara Security Police Detention Center, Javad Moghimi Parsa told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. According to Javad Moghimi, Salmanzadeh’s close friend and former colleague, Salmanzadeh embarked on a […]
2013 Elections: Former MP Arrested for a Political Meeting That Never Happened
Former Member of Parliament Hossein Loghmanian and four reformist activists from Hamadan Province were arrested while on their way to Tehran to meet former president Mohammad Khatami on March 16, 2013. These arrests may mark the first detentions of political figures in relation to the upcoming June 2013 presidential elections in Iran. Hamadan Intelligence […]
In The Memory of Reza AliShah
18th Shahrivar 1391 corresponding to 11th of Rabi-ul-awal 1434 is the 20th death anniversary of His Holiness Hajj Sultan Hussein Tabandeh Gonabadi “Reza Ali Shah”, the son and successor of Hazrat Hajj Sheikh Mohammad Hasan Salih Ali Shah and the great grand son of the late Sultan Ali Shah. His Holiness, Mr. Reza […]
Robbery and Double Intimidation: What’s Wrong With This Picture? By Hossein Ghazian
(Commentary) These days, the subject of violent robberies, usually carried out in public with knives and daggers, has become a hot topic in Iranian public opinion.
Opposition leader’s son given jail sentence
Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, has been sentenced to six months in jail for speaking with foreign media about the alleged torture and death of prisoners in the Kahrizak detention centre in 2009.
Arbaeen Anniversary of Imam Hossein
Our 3rd Imam, Imam Hussein (a.s) fought with Yazid in 61 AH to save Islam. Imam Hussein (a.s) was forced to fight Yazid’s army because he would not give Bayat (oath of allegiance) to Yazid.
Translate of “Ziyarat of Arba’een”
20th Safar is the day of Arba’een, the 40th day after the martyrdom of Imam Hussain (a.s.), his friends and relatives in Karbala on 10th Muharram.
Commemorating Martyrdom of Imam Hossein (as)
For those not well acquainted with the life and death of Imam Husain(a.s.), the commemoration of his martyrdom is seen as an emotional occasion – a cry of the heart for what is lost. It is this, but it is also much more than this.
On Martyrdom
The word “shahid” (martyr) means “witness”, in the sense of one who is a witness to the Truth of God as manifested in the Qur’an, in history, in the world, and within one’s own self.