Iran frees top opposition figure for new year
Prague’s One World Festival Puts Focus On Iran
Interview: UN Envoy On Torture Says Concerned About Iran
Rafsanjani stresses people’s role in government stability
American and Iranian: 2 homelands at an impasse

U.S. Hopes Internet Exports Will Help Open Closed Societies
Early Feminist Cartoons
Iran unveils new cruise missile
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tyranny ‘is crushing Iran’s artists’
Beyond Sanctions: How to Solve the Iranian Riddle
Karroubi Son Prevented From Traveling Abroad
Iran in Its Intricacy
Hassan Khomeini condemns violence in Islamic Republic
Zahra Rahnavard condemns discriminatory laws against women
Enmity with God, latest charge of former Tehran [...]

Not Defeated
United Nations General Assembly Recognizes 21 March as International Day of Nowruz
Jailed Iranian Academic In ‘Critical Condition
Hashemi Announced Unity in Absence of Yazdi
Deciphering Rafsanjani
The Baha’i Community, Human Rights, and the Construction of a New Iranian Identity

Here is the list of selected headlines for February 19, 2010
German insurers wind down Iran business
Iranian student activist handed six-year prison term
Iranian hardline cleric claims protesters “dared not show up”
Iran Not Seeking Nuclear Weapons
Global Campaign for Human Rights in Iran’s Symbolic Hunger Strike in New York on February 20
Target Iran’s Censors
Poll: Canada rates 1st among [...]

Khordaad 88, February 2
Mir Hossein Mousavi ’s Interview with Kaleme
Kaleme reports that in this interview which took place close to February 11th [22 of Bahman], the 31st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Mousavi stated that the main reason for the collapse of the dictatorial and unpopular regime of the Shah was its illegitimacy [in the [...]

Channel 4 News (UK), January 22
Neda’s death ‘ignited an awakening’ in Iran

Neda Agha Soltan’s fiance, Caspian Makan: “The 23 January is Neda’s precious birthday. Neda will be 27 on that day. I felt that this should be marked in the world.
“I’ve asked the people of Iran, wherever they may be, in whichever corner of the [...]

Previously, when posting selected headlines, we published one selected headline per post. Iran News Now will be trying out a new format for our selected headlines over the next few days. Based on your feedback we may continue with this format moving forward. Basically, we will publish a daily list of selected [...]