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A special committee at the Iranian Parliament (Majlis) has overwhelmingly approved the outlines of controversial bill designed to protect cyber space, which many are worried may restrict activity on the Internet.
A former senior official with Iran’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Finance has been served with a prison sentence and temporary dismissal from civil service over corruption.
Iran’s Ambassador and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations has denounced as “crime against humanity” the imposition of sanctions against Tehran. Zahra Ershadi said such unilateral restrictive measures have put the lives of vulnerable people at risk by hampering their access to medicine.
The spokesman for the IRGC, Ramadan Sharif, has reacted to recently-released audio recording by Radio Farda which is a conversation between two senior Iranian military officials about a corruption case.
The Ebrat Museum, located in downtown Tehran, once served as a prison facility run by the highly-notorious SAVAK secret police prior to the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
Iran’s leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has given pardons and commutations to 3,388 convicts on the occasion of the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory.
An Iranian judiciary official says an organized fuel smuggling ring operating in the Persian Gulf was identified and destroyed during a raid by naval forces of the Islamic republic of Iran.
Senior officials from Iran and Finland have emphasized the need to step up the fight against terrorists and expand bilateral relations in the legal and judicial areas.
The ringleader of an anti-Iran terrorist group based in the United States has been charged with connection with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the Israeli spy agency Mossad.
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has warned Europe that a great number of Afghan refugees will flood the continent if international promises to help the country tackle the problem of Afghan refugees، fail to materialize.
The vice chairman of the Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says the Iranian negotiating team has the authorization to hold direct talks with the US in Vienna.
An Iranian judiciary official has condemned the Saudi-led coalition’s deadly airstrikes on Yemen, calling on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to employ every possible option to hold the perpetrators of “the crime” to account.
The secretary general of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights has blasted the United States’ war on terror, saying it only killed civilians and demolished their homes.
Iran’s Judiciary has slammed France for its interventionist statements on Tehran’s recent decision to send an Iranian-French national back to the jail over her repeated violations of house arrest limits.
Iran’s top human rights official says the Islamic Republic runs its prison facilities in harmony with humanitarian principles and it will not tolerate any mistreatment or abuse of inmates.
A group of Iranian Judiciary employees have held a rally in front of the Parliament building in Tehran to demand better working conditions and higher salaries.
A court has found the managing editor of a the Iranian newspaper, Kayhan, guilty of insulting the Society of Students against Poverty, an Iranian NGO whose activities are mainly geared to looking after neglected and underprivileged women and children.
Iran says it is seeking the prosecution of 127 persons in connection with the 2020 U.S. drone strike that killed former commander of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps General Qassem Soleimani.
Tehran will pursue its legal case against international plane manufacturers, Airbus and ATR, over their failure to supply spare parts to the Iranian airlines, the country’s civil aviation chief says. The related contracts were signed before the United States re-imposed sanctions on Iran in 2018.
President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran has ordered relevant authorities to speed up the payment of compensation to the families of those who lost their lives in the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in early 2020 near Tehran.
