Iranian Opposition Figure Karrubi Allowed To Meet With Activist For First Time Since Arrest
RFL/RE - Iranian authorities have allowed opposition figure Mehdi Karrubi, who has been under house arrest since 2011, to meet with…
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Tehran Prosecutor: Streaming TinyMoviez Website Shut Down For “Indecent” Content
CHRI - Case Highlights State Sanctioning of Copyright Infringement in Iran The popular Iranian streaming movies website, TinyMoviez, which featured pirated…
Rights Organizations Urge US to Aid Access to Information in Iran by Expanding General License D-1
CHRI - In a joint statement, nine rights organizations including the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) have urged the…
Keeping the competition out: Iran startups thrive despite sanctions
Reuters - Low on cash but high on hope, Iran’s technology entrepreneurs are learning to live with revived hostility in the…
Iran claims 5 orbital slots to place satellites
PayvandNews - Iran's Minister of Communication and Information Technology announced that Iran has been granted 5 orbital slots, adding arrangements…
Iran’s AUT team wins 1st place at France’s IMAV 2017
PayvandNews - A team from Tehran's Amir Kabir (Polytechnic) University of Technology secured the first place in Virtual Challenge category of International…
Iranian Miners’ Call for Justice Echoes in Social Media
Radiozamaneh - In December of 2015 miners of Agh Dareh gold mines staged a number of protests which earned many miners…
Iran to send human to space by 2025
Mehr News Agency - While announcing continued studies to send humans to space, the head of Iran's Aerospace Research Institute (ARI) said they…
High-Frequency Chip Brings Iranian-American Researchers One Step Closer to Next Generation Technology
PayvandNews - A novel, high-frequency electronic chip potentially capable of transmitting tens of gigabits of data per second - a rate that…
Russians To Finance 1 Billion Euro Rail Electrification In Iran
PayvandNews - A Russian bank has agreed to provide 1 billion euros to electrify a 500 km railway route in northern…