(Associated Free Press hosted by Google) | March 10, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran has freed for the new year holidays a prominent opposition figure rounded up during protests against the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, news reports said Thursday.
A number of activists and journalists have also been freed under varying conditions in the last [...]

(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 10, 2010
By Kristin Deasy
The poster advertising the opening of Europe’s largest human rights film festival shows a 20-something brunette in leather pants ready to lasso, cowgirl-style, the attention of potential attendees.
She’s also wearing a green jacket. It’s a good fit for the festival’s opening film, “Green Days,” [...]

(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | March 11, 2010
In the wake of the UN Human Rights Council’s recent session on Iran, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda correspondent Javad Kouroshy asked Manfred Nowak, the UN’s special rapporteur on torture, about his attempts to visit Tehran and his efforts to make governments around the world take better care [...]

(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 11, 2010
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Chairman of Iran’s Expediency Council stressed the role of people in governance and maintained that with the growth and spread of media, governments that do not have popular bases can not last long.
ILNA reports that speaking in a meeting of members of municipal councils of Tehran Province, [...]

So, we can’t force Iran out of its nuclear intentions, whatever they are. Pragmatism might prompt Iranian leaders to abandon their current course, but that seems unlikely at this point, as, internally, doing so would certainly be taken as a sign of weakness. Approaching Iran as an autonomous state — one with the same rights as ours (energy, weapons, and all) — is the only way to get beyond this impasse.

(Radio Zamaaneh) | March 11, 2010
Iranian Student Organization Advar-e Tahkim-e Vahdat called on the Head of Iran’s Judiciary, Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani to release Ahmad Zeidabadi, Secretary-General of their organization.
In their letter they maintain that it is months since the required bail for Ahmad Zeidabadi was posted by his family and yet he remains in prison.
They [...]

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(Reuters) | March 9, 2010
TEHRAN — Iran put 12 policemen on trial in an army court on Tuesday over last summer’s deaths of at least three anti-government protesters at notorious Kahrizak jail, state media reported.
The case has caused major embarrassment to the Islamic republic, which acknowledged, after months of denial, the deaths as a result [...]

(Kaleme [Persian]) | March 11, 2010
Mir Hossein Mousavi’s official website published an interview with Zahra Rahnavard, the popular wife of Iranian opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, in which she said that the current Iranian government (under the administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) is illegitimate, but because they occupy the executive branch of the Iranian government, they [...]

(Enduring America) | March 11, 2010
The tireless Dr. Scott Lucas, professor of American Studies at Birmingham University in the U.K., and editor of the esteemed Enduring America news blog covers today’s notable news on Iran.
While it’s worth reading the liveblog in its entirity, I found this part to be particularly interesting because [...]