Mohammad Mostafaei, Sakineh Ashtiani’s laywer, is believed to have gone into hiding after an arrest warrant was issued for him, according to colleagues and activists familiar with the case.

On Friday 30 July 2010, Mina Ahadi, Coordinator of the International Committee against Executions and International Committee against Stoning, is to provide new evidence and information on Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s case as well as other cases sentenced to death by stoning in Iran.

Reza Kahili, the pseudonym of a former CIA Operative who infiltrated the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, is predicting the imminent collapse of the theocratic regime in Iran.

Tonya Kaboudvand, daughter of Kurdish human rights activists Mohammad Sadiq Kaboudvand, spoke with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iranabout her last visit with her father in Evin Prison. “I couldn’t recognize my father during my last visit with him.

International Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani Day on July 24, 2010 – World wide people unit to express their concern of the horrible faith of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani who might be stoned to death soon. A list of rallies and events. If you can’t attend please sign a petition to help save her life.

Suspected Kurdish rebels blew up a pipeline carrying natural gas from Iran to Turkey, forcing the shutdown of the conduit, officials said Wednesday.

A group of Iranian scholars has developed software to promote chastity and the Hijab, a style of of islamic dress code. It includes a bonus gallery so women can see what full coverage really means.

Student activist Mehdi Arabshahi has been hospitalized after having a heart failure. In hospital he received a bypass operation as one of his outer arteries were blocked, Before imprisonment he had no known medical record of heart failure.

More than a year ago Delara Darab was executed after being convicted of murdering her father’s wealthy female cousin. Maria Carmela Ribecco wrote a loving poem in memory of Delara Darabi.

Mr. Mohammad Mostafaei, child rights lawyer to Ali Mahin-Torabi released in June 2010 the great news that he has been exonerated of “intentional murder” to a lesser sentence. Today Ali Mahin Torabi was released after waiting so many years for his execution.

Nora Shourd and Cindy Hickey are not expecting a warm reception when they call at the Iranian embassy in London. So far, the authorities in Tehran have ignored almost all their pleas to discuss their children, held in Evin prison without charge for nearly a year. That looks unlikely to change.

In recent years Azerbaijan has become a major transit point for narcotics from Afghanistan and Iran en route to Russia and Europe. In June 2010 Azerbaijan confiscated 397 kilogram of Iranian drugs.

A spokesman for the Paris-based watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says “political prisoners” in Iran have been routinely denied medical treatment, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.

In June 2010 a delegation from Iranian city of Shiraz, as a consequence of a partnership program, visited the German city of Weimar, During their stay the Iranian delegation refused to visit the former concentration camp Buchenwald. Nevertheless, the city council decided that the friendship and partnership with Shiraz must continue.

European Union foreign ministers are set to adopt tighter sanctions against Iran, including measures to ban investment in the oil and gas industry.

On behalf of Ayatollah Khameni his ‘Information Office Center’ answered today some questions about the leadership model in Iran. According to his Information Office Center Ayatollah Khamenei stressed: Commit to the supreme leader, obey governmental orders when you are a true muslim. This does not look good for reformers such as Mousavi and Karroubi.

Mona Mahmudnizhad (September 10, 1965 – June 18, 1983) was an Iranian Bahá’í who, in 1983, together with nine other Bahá’í women, was sentenced to death and hanged in Shiraz, Iran because of her membership in the Bahá’í Faith. Somethig that should interest the International Criminal Court.

A US federal appeals court has ruled that the State Department must re-evaluate its terrorist designation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), a resistance organization of the Islamic republic. While reviewing please remeber that PMOI can be as sly as a fox. Or even more, when a fox preaches, take care of your geese.

Please take a moment to remind President Obama how important it is that we not punish innocent Iranians, including students seeking to study outside of Iran. If Obama is truly looking for change Iranian students should have the opportunity to study abroad, learn about other cultures, equality and democracy so they can spread the word!

The prosecutor office of Babol city has issued a travel ban verdict for Adeleh Ziaei for posting a note titled “I’m Sorry” to her husband’s personal weblog. The verdict has been reportedly issued to increase pressures on her husband Arya Aramnejad, an artist, singer and composer.

A new research conducted by social sciences researchers of Beheshti University on street children in Tehran shows that these children have a catastrophic health situation.

So far the International Criminal Court has not charged Iranian officials with crimes against humanity. But with the latest developments in mind it is about time. Why wait for a declaration from YN Security Council? Start investigating now and don’t hold back. The video series ‘Women in Hell’ is a great way to start!

Former Brazil President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former Minister of Women’s Affairs of Iran Mahnaz Afkhami, actor Michael Douglas, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg and many other noted personalities signed the petition to save Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani. The good news is: you can sign too!

Some worry about higher food prices, some fret about overseas travel and others about business, but it is clear that ordinary Iranians are feeling the effects of sanctions imposed over Iran. It surely affects Iran’s traditional Dow Trade with UAE. A photo report.

As the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for genocide master brain Bashir the question remains why Supreme Leader Khamenei and president Ahmadi are not being put on trial. Sure, they can’t be accused of genocide but surely they can be trialed for crimes against humanity. So what is the ICC waiting for?

Iran’s economic problems are likely to grow as new measures aim at banking and energy companies. Architect Mohammad Sadati, 36, was also in no doubt about the cause of the rising prices: “As soon as there is talk about the possibility of new sanctions against Iran, the price of everything goes up,” he said.

Mohammad Reza Haddadi is in danger of imminent execution in Iran for a murder that took place when he was 15 years old