Concern Grows Over Fate Of Jailed Journalist

Iran's most prominent jailed investigative journalist, Akbar Ganji, has been jailed for the last five years because of his critical articles and his investigation into the murders of political dissidents and intellectuals -- murders in which, he says, top Iranian officials were involved. Now, Ganji’s wife says that he has been on hunger strike for a month as he demands to be released unconditionally from prison. On 12 July, a gathering is due to take place in Tehran in his support.

Austria probes Iran's Ahmadinejad

Austrian prosecutors are investigating allegations that Iran's president-elect was involved in the 1989 assassination of a Kurdish leader in Vienna.

Austrian politician Peter Pilz said there was "credible evidence" to link Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the murder of Iranian exile Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou.

Iran's terrorist president

If there is a silver lining in Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election as president of Iran, it is that it will be more difficult for people in the West to delude themselves into thinking they are dealing with so-called pragmatists or reformers who want to end the clerical dictatorship that has brutalized the Iranian people. Such an exercise in self-deception will be far more difficult to engage in now that Americans taken hostage by Iranian students who invaded the U.S. Embassy in Tehran on Nov. 4, 1979, say that Mr. Ahmadinejad played a central role in the takeover, interrogating American captives and demanding harsher treatment of the hostages...

Internet Filtering in Iran

Internet Filtering in Iran documents the degree and extent to which the Iranian government controls the information environment in which its citizens live, including websites, blogs, email, and online discussion forums.