Mr. Valizadeh, the write or the “Javanroud News” blog and also a political activist in the city of Javanroud was arrested on Monday night by security forces and is still in custody.

Germany’s government, which has been accused of jeopardizing international sanctions against Tehran by promoting trade with it, said Monday it has issued fewer export guarantees to German companies seeking to do business in Iran.

He wasn’t unveiled at the Obama/Biden/Hillary Clinton envoy roll-out event at Foggy Bottom last week

The Simone de Beauvoir award ceremony in honour of campaign for one million signatures took place in Café Les Deux-Magots in Paris where most meetings of simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre and other intellectuals had been taken place.

The state-run television news reported Thursday that 10 men were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday. The semi-official Fars news agency reported that an 11th man, scheduled to be executed in February, witnessed the hanging of the 10.

Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to immediately stop the destruction of hundreds of individual and mass, unmarked graves in Khavaran, south Tehran, to ensure that the site is preserved and to initiate a forensic investigation at the site as part of a long-overdue thorough, independent and impartial investigation into mass executions which began in 1988, often referred to in Iran as the “prison massacres”.

The foundation is believed to have close ties to the Iranian regime. For the past 30 years, Alavi has been granting financial support to peoples and organizations around the US. The Rutgers University has in largely profited from the Alavi’s generosity receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Iranian revolution Court has sentenced Dr. Arash Alaei and his brother Kamyar Alaei , specialists in research and curbing AIDS, to altogether 9 years imprisonment. They are charged with participating in “soft toppling”.

“It is important that Iran give a public accounting of how it is meeting its international obligations to constrain al Qaida,” said Stuart Levey, Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.

U.S. security and law-enforcement officials say they have fresh evidence of recent efforts by Iran to evade sanctions and acquire metals from China used in high-tech weaponry, including long-range nuclear missiles.