Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:     Head of Russian Duma to visit Iran Chairman of Russian State Duma Sergei Naryshkin, heading a delegation, is due to travel to Tehran in mid-October, an official said here on Saturday.   Zarif, Kerry, Ashton to meet in Oman in early November Irans Foreign Minister ...

[caption id="attachment_35959" align="alignright" width="159"] Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani[/caption] TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Responding to a United Nations report criticizing death sentences in Iran, a senior official in the Islamic Republic is saying that 93 percent of executions in the country involve drug ...

[caption id="attachment_35959" align="alignright" width="186"] Secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights Mohammad Javad Larijani[/caption] Irans extensive efforts to improve the countrys human rights situation have faced serious challenges, including politically-motivatedmeddlesomepolicies, says an Iranian official. The Islamic Republic has ...

[caption id="attachment_92596" align="alignright" width="165"] Iranian woman Reyhaneh Jabbari, convicted of murder, defends herself at a court hearing.[/caption] Iranian Human Rights Commissioner Mohammad Javad Larijani named Western media campaigns as one of the chief reasons that the Iranian judiciary failed to obtain consent from the family of ...