The Iranian foreign ministry in a statement marked the 23rd anniversary of the martyrdom of Iranian diplomats and a journalist in a terrorist attack in Afghanistans Mazar-i-Sharif. "Twenty-three years ago, this day, Iranian diplomats and a journalist were martyred at the Consulate General of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan,...

Tasnim - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised the effective role of journalists in confronting the spread of fake news. In a Friday message marking the National Journalists Day, Rouhani said Iran is currently under the maximum pressure of sanctions and misinformation. Under such circumstances, he said, the country needs journalists who take ...

Tehran Times - Iran long-serving journalist Fatollah Fathi passed away at the age of 58 on Sunday. Fathi, who was suffering from the liver disease, died at his hometown Tehran. He was struggling with his illness for one year. He was a martial arts journalist about 30 years. Fathi was working in Iranian sports newspaper Khabar Varzeshi. He ...

IRNA Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman described Iranian journalists as narrators of the country's discourse in a "post-Western world". "Iranian journalists are partners, narrators and powerful arm of Iranian discourse in the post-Western world," Abbas Mousavi wrote in a Twitter on commemoration of Iran's national Reporters' Day (August 8) on Thursday....

Reuters - Iranian foreign ministry spokesman on Wednesday called for the immediate release of a journalist arrested in the United States while working for Irans English-language state TV. We condemn the illegal arrest of Marziyeh Hashemi, the reporter and presenter of Press TV, and the inhumane treatment of her in jail in Washington, Bahram Qasemi ...

Al-Monitor - In a joint editorial, four of Tehrans top newspapers decried the US exit from the nuclear deal and asked American journalists to speak up against the imposition of tyrannical sanctions against Iran. Hoping the gain a sympathetic ear in the West, particularly the United States, the 1,500-word editorial published in English and Persian framed ...

Tehran, July 3, IRNA Intelligence Ministry on Sunday rejected sensing any kind of warning message to the journalists, saying such an act is contrary to the ministry's procedure and respect for civil rights. The Public Relations Department of the Intelligence Ministry quoted Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi as saying that respect for the civil ...

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Tehran, April 25, IRNA - Veteran Iranian journalist Hossein Qandi passed away on Thursday at the age of 64. Qandi, who had sunk into a coma following a stroke, passed away in a Tehran hospital, Iran Daily reported. He had an MA in international management from the United States and worked as a senior journalist and university professor for ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Hundreds of Iranian journalists have signed a letter to announce their decision to travel to the Gaza Strip in a bid to reflect to the world the oppression of Palestinians and atrocities committed by the Zionist regime against people in the Gaza Strip. More than 400 Iranian journalists and media activists have signed the letter in ...

(Reuters) - Iran's silencing of journalists and opposition leaders could jeopardize the legitimacy of the presidential election in June, aUnited Nationshuman rights investigator said on Tuesday. Ahmed Shaheed, U.N. special rapporteur on human rights inIran, said that dozens of Iranian journalists were behind bars, including 17 arrested during one ...

Iran has freed 14 journalist working for reformist papers who were arrested in January and accused of cooperating with a "Western-linked network", the reformist Shargh newspaper reported on Sunday. The newspaper said the journalists were released from jail after posting bail, while four others were still behind bars. At the time of their arrest ...

The Iranian Intelligence Ministry released a statement on Tuesday February 19 referring to the discovery of a media network that, according to the ministry, is based inside BBC News and is linked to several Iranian reformist websites, such as Jaras and Kaleme. Iranian media report that the announcement indicates that recently detained journalists ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's official news agency is reporting authorities have arrested another group of local journalists accused of links with the BBC. The report by IRNA quotes a statement by the Intelligence Ministry. It did not say how many were detained. Last week Iran said it arrested 11 journalists on the same charge. Iran has repeatedly ...

The FINANCIAL -- European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton called on Iran on Thursday to explain a wave of arrests of journalists and raids on newspaper offices. A statement issued by Ashton's office also said she was concerned by reports that Iran-based family members of BBC-Farsi journalists based in London have been harassed and that ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An Iranian news agency reports that local journalists linked to British news media have been arrested but gave few details. Iran regularly cracks down on foreign media outlets it considers hostile. The report Wednesday by the semiofficial Fars news agency quoted a statement from the Iranian Intelligence Ministry. It did not ...

In a rare move, some of the reformist newspapers that were raided by Iranian security officials on January 27 and whose writers were detained have publicly protested against the crackdown. On its front page, Iran'sreformist "Shargh" dailyobjected to the arrest of one its staff members, journalist Pouria Alami. ??In its January 30 issue, the newspaper ...

Stop writing about Iran, or face the consequences. That's the message being sent to Iranian journalists working outside the country, along with warnings that their reputations, finances, and families are at risk should they refuse to comply. Relatives of political journalist Ali Asgar Ramezanpour, who works from London, say they have been told ...