Iran’s judiciary on Sunday announced the arrest of President Hassan Rouhani’s brother Hossein Fereydoun on financial crime charges, in a long-running feud between two of the country’s centres of power. “Multiple investigations have been conducted regarding this person, also other people have been investigated, some of whom are in jail,” deputy judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni … Read more
Iran’s judiciary chief criticised moderate President Hassan Rouhani on Monday over his promises to release jailed opposition leaders — a sign of the obstacles facing the newly re-elected leader’s reform efforts. During his election campaign, “a candidate said during a gathering of his supporters that he wanted to end the house arrest” of two reformist … Read more
The 20,000 chanting fans might have come to support Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday but it was clear their real heroes were the ones still locked away by the regime. “Mousavi! Karroubi! Khatami!” they chanted at deafening volume, over and over, at the election rally in a stadium in western Tehran. Those first two … Read more
Iran’s conservatives announced a shortlist of five presidential candidates on Thursday as they experimented with their first-ever democratic primary in a bid to find a leader to challenge President Hassan Rouhani. Fearing another defeat at the hands of the moderate president in next month’s election, a new alliance called the Popular Front of Revolutionary Forces … Read more