Mohammad-Hossein Saffar Harandi, member of the Expediency Council and adviser to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, said that the Guardian Council qualifies those who are not “after revolt against the...

In Iran, women face many restrictions on their eligibility for public office. Discriminatory laws against women in political and social institutions are some of the main obstacles to an...

After a large number of candidates for the upcoming Majlis elections were disqualified by the conservative-dominated Guardian Council, Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s president, said that “we witnessed a great turnout...

Siamak Rahpey is a member of the Guardian Council and the spokesman for the Council’s election monitoring committee. Mr. Rahpey has claimed that “45% of the registered candidates for...

Mohammad Ismail Kowsari is an MP for Tehran in the current Majlis. Mr. Kowsari has recently told the conservative Keyhan Daily that “the 6th Majlis did not work for...

Iran has one of the highest amounts of burn victims in the Middle East. Every year in Iran close to 30,000 burn victims require hospitalization, and around 3,000 die....

Movid Hoseini Sadr, the MP from Khoi, told parliament that there are more than 6 million unemployed citizens across Iran. Is that really the case? What Official Statistics Say...

Iran is a young country, with over 60 percent of its 80 million people under 30 years old. Yet the Iranian government has neglected many of this population’s essential...

Once again, Tehran’s severe air pollution has become a hot topic for politicians across Iran. Amidst the heated rhetoric some exaggerated claims have been made about the impact of...

President Hassan Rouhani delivered a speech on January 12 during the opening ceremony of phases 15 and 16 of the South Pars gas field, and said that “the Government...

On the eve of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s (JCPOA) ‘Implementation Day,’ Ahmad Ali Moghimi, the MP for Neka, Behshahr, and Galougah, claimed that implementing the nuclear deal...

The MP for Noshahr and Chalus, Ahmad Lashkani, claims that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has erected economically damaging regulatory barriers to sand mining companies working in the Northern...

On 1 December 2015, Farhad Bashiri, MP for Pakdasht, spoke to the media to defend Members of Parliament from charges of corruption and graft. “People and society think that...

In the Fall of 2015, the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reported that Iran’s Majlis did not approve the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), “but rather an...

In early December 2015, Ettelaat newspaper published an interview with and photo of former President Mohammad Khatami - and was subsequently reprimanded by the Judiciary for that decision. In...

Freedom of the press and freedom of expression are among the basic freedoms that have frequently been the targets of state institutions’ crackdowns in Iran, even though both freedoms...

Shokr Khoda Mousavi is Ahwaz MP in Iran’s Majlis. In a recent interview with the ISNA news agency in Ahwaz, Mr. Mousavi talked about the consequences of a growing...

Following a year of rumours, in May 2015 a few Members of Parliament (MP) reignited a debate about electronic voting when the Internal Affairs Committee told Majlis that e-voting...

Saeed Mortazavi, former chief prosecutor of Tehran and former head of the social security services, has become the centre of public attention due to his widespread abuses of power...

Fact Check: A pro-government MP claims that the government has increased foreign exchange rates to compensate for its budget deficit. How credible is this claim? In the first week of...

On the eve of the 10th round of Majlis elections in Iran, Laleh Eftekhari, a conservative MP from Tehran, has accused President Rouhani’s government of neglecting to support women....