Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei held a meeting with three reformist figures ahead of Iran's presidential elections in June. This is the first meeting between the Ayatollah and reformists since June 2009 when protests broke out following the last ...

A bipartisan U.S. congressional delegation met with the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Maryam Rajavi, in Paris Sunday to discuss a broad range of issues, including potential bilateral talks on Iran's nuclear program, human rights violations, ...

Iranian security forces arrested two of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's daughters and the son of fellow opposition figure Mehdi Karoubi after raiding their homes. Police confiscated items from the homes, detained them for questioning, and later released them. ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Egypt on Tuesday to attend an Organization of Islamic Cooperation conference. This is the first visit to Egypt by an Iranian president since Iran's 1979 revolution. President Mohamed Morsi met Ahmadinejad at ...

Iran's Guardians Council approved a law this week that distributes responsibility for elections more broadly. Elections will no longer be controlled solely by the Interior Ministry and will be run instead by a panel consisting of individuals from ...

Iran arrested more than ten journalists for allegedly cooperating with foreign Persian-language media. The journalists work for reformist papers Arman, Bahar, Etemaad, Shargh, and the Aseman weekly and Iran's ILNA labor news agency. Although these outlets have not encouraged ...

Representative Ted Deutch (D-FL) won the ranking member spot on the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa in an unexpected maneuver on Tuesday. Representative Brad Sherman (D-CA), the third ranking Democrat on the committee, ...

Mohammad Hossein Karroubi was sentenced this week to six months in jail for speaking with the foreign media about alleged torture at the Kahrizak detention center in 2009. Karroubi was interviewed by the foreign press after his father Mehdi Karroubi, an opposition leader and former Presidential ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad cancelled a scheduled trip to Turkey 12/17, citing a scheduling conflict. With Turkey calling for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and Iran remaining a vocal ally of the Syrian regime, the cancellation comes at a time ...

To mark the 2nd anniversary of the Arab Spring, the Woodrow Wilson Center released a report, titled "Has the Arab Spring Lived up to Expectations?" The report features opinions from 39 experts from the Middle East, North Africa, ...

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad elevated a close personal adviser to a high post in government, setting the stage for a likely succession battle in the race for president next year. Ahmadinejad's ally, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, will take over as the ...

A U.N. General Assembly committee on Tuesday condemned Iran for what it called "widespread human rights abuses," a move Iranian Ambassador to the U.N., Mohammad Khazaee, dismissed as politically motivated. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration gave Iran a March deadline to cooperate with ...

On November 18, 200 regional politicians as well representatives from Russia and China held a “Syrian National Dialogue” conference in Tehran to discuss an end to violence in Syria. Iran’s foreign minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, warned that arming the ...