France has released an Iranian engineer who had been detained in Nice over alleged violations of the US sanctions in a prisoner swap for a French national convicted of espionage in Iran.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to pardon or commute the sentences of a large number of Iranian convicts on the occasion of the Muslim festive days in the lunar month of Rajab and also the Nowruz holidays.
Iran’s Judiciary Chief Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi has ordered the courts across the country to grant the eligible prisoners leave for the new Iranian year’s holidays (mid-March) until April 3, also as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus epidemic.
Iran has given eight environmental activists prison sentences ranging from 4 to 10 years on charges of working with the United States and acting against Iran’s national security.
The Iranian Judiciary says a German national, who was jailed in Iran, has been released and is now back in Germany after an Iranian national detained in the European country returned home on Sunday.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says an Iranian citizen detained in Germany on the pretext of violating Washington's cruel sanctions has been released following intensive diplomatic efforts.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has agreed to pardon or commute the sentences of a large number of Iranian convicts on the occasion of the 41st anniversary of the victory of Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Rouhollah Zam, the Paris-backed anti-Iran propagandist who played a key role in the 2017-18 protests across the Islamic Republic, went on trial in Tehran on Monday morning.
Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaeili said the death sentence for a man convicted of spying for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been upheld.
President of Iran Hassan Rouhani has called for a special court to be formed by the Judiciary to probe into the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane that was unintentionally shot down by the air defense near Tehran on January 8.
Iran’s top judge Ebrahim Raisi says the Judiciary in collaboration with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will file a complaint against US President Donald Trump for the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani.
Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has ordered the head of the Armed Forces’ Judiciary Organization to immediately launch probe into the “accidental” shoot-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed in Tehran Wednesday.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi has dismissed the meddlesome comments made by French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the release of two French nationals.
The Iranian Judiciary’s High Council for Human Rights has dismissed the “bogus” allegations that the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has recently made against the Islamic Republic over the recent riots in the country.
Iranian Government Spokesman Ali Rabiei has expressed Tehran’s preparedness for further prisoner exchanges with the United States, following the swap of Iranian scientist Masoud Soleimani with a US-Chinese national kept in Iran.
The US has released Iranian stem cell scientist Masoud Soleimani and handed him over to Iranian officials in Switzerland, which has apparently mediated another prisoner swap between Tehran and Washington.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has called on the Supreme National Security Council to show “Islamic mercy” to the people involved in the recent unrest in the country.
Iranian Prosecutor General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri says the screening of the people arrested in the recent violent protests is expected to end within the next two days, noting that those found innocent would be released immediately.
Iran has rejected the reports that former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who has gone missing in the Kish Island since 2007, has an open “criminal or judicial” case at Iran’s Revolution Court, saying the alleged case is of the kind opened for any missing person.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyyed Abbas Mousavi says some twenty Iranian people are jailed in various countries in the world on the false charge of bypassing the US sanctions, and Iran has proposed a list to the US to have them released.
