(Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty) | February 23, 2010
The first chancellor of Tehran University after the 1979 Islamic Revolution remains in jail despite what his wife says is his deteriorating health, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports.
Mohammad Maleki, who is 76 and suffers from prostate cancer, was arrested in August during the crackdown that followed the [...]

(RadioZamaneh) | February 22, 2010
Iranian Minister of Science and Technology, Kamran Daneshjou announced today that the country’s universities have no need for “secular” professors and educators who do not subscribe to the Islamic worldview (they have no place in Iran’s universities).
He also told Fars news agency that acting in partisanship is “poisonous for the universities [...]

Today we have seen a flurry of rumors online that an arrest of Mousavi may be imminent. A news website closely associated with Mousavi called Kalameh has issued this statement(English translation):
WARNING: Beware that an event is unfolding!
Kaleme: Following the planned scenario for disgracing Imam Khomeini and accusing the Green movement and the students of [...]

(Mowjcamp)
Hamid Dabashi
A rather peculiar reference to a prominent nineteenth century philosopher made Mir Hossein Mousavi’s letter to Ayatollah Montazeri of some urgent interest.
More than three months into the post-electoral crisis of June 2009, the chief oppositional candidate, who had cried foul soon after the officially declared victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had written a letter to [...]

(RFE/RL)
November 20, 2009
By Golnaz Esfandiari
Iran has increased its pressure on student activists ahead of the national Student Day on December 7.
Throughout Iran a dozen students are reported to have been jailed this week, including eight student activists arrested in Tehran on November 19.
Those arrested include a senior member of Iran’s largest reformist student group, Abbas [...]

(Guardian UK)
It’s no joke! City council starts laughing clubs in colleges and jails to put smile back on citizens’ faces and boost health
Amid simmering political tensions, a fierce post-election crackdown and a depressed economy, reasons to be cheerful are hardly in abundant supply in Iran.
Now Tehran city council has found an antidote to gee up [...]

PBS just released a documentary on Neda’s murder: FRONTLINE: A Death in Tehran. This is a must see.
Watching it, I couldn’t believe how raw the feelings and emotions evoked by it were for me. I felt as though the events were happening all over again. I was overcome by a panopoly of [...]

By NASSER KARIMI (AP)
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran has sentenced five defendants to death in a mass trial of opposition figures accused of fomenting the unrest that followed the disputed June presidential election, state television reported Tuesday.
The five apparently include three death sentences announced last month. None of the five have been identified by Iranian authorities.
Iran [...]

The brother-in-law of Iran’s main opposition leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, will be put on trial before the revolutionary court, months after his arrest in the country’s post-election crackdown, Tehran’s public prosecutor said today.

Tue Sep 8, 2009 12:11pm ED
By Fredrik Dahl and Reza Derakhshi
TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iranian authorities closed the office on Tuesday of a leading reformer who came fourth in the disputed presidential election in June, seizing documents, discs and other material, an Iranian news agency reported.
Judiciary officials entered the office in northern Tehran of pro-reform cleric [...]