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Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi said Tuesday that government prosecutors have expanded their investigations against Iranian-American scholars Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , director of the Middle East Program at the DC-based Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Dr....

Iranian police arrested twenty people near the Iraqi border on suspicion of participating in an international spy ring, according to state news agency IRNA Monday. The arrests come several months after the Iranian government first...

Iranian 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate and human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi Monday accused the Iranian government of interfering in judicial affairs to prevent the release of two US clients currently detained...

Iranian judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi said Tuesday that an Iranian judge will decide whether to proceed with indictments against three Iranian-Americans early next week, after the conclusion of preliminary investigations. Iran has formally charged Dr. Haleh Esfandiari...

Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , currently detained by the Iranian government, is being denied access to counsel, according to her lawyer, 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi . Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Program...

Iran confirmed for the first time that it is detaining Iranian-American peace activist Ali Shakeri , the Iranian Students News Agency reported Friday. Shakeri, a founding member of the University of California, Irvine, Center for Citizen...

An Iranian judge said Wednesday that two detained Iranian-Americans had admitted to carrying out some "activities," but it is not clear if this is tantamount to admission of spying. In an interview with Iran's ISNA news...

President George W. Bush strongly condemned the Iran's detention of four Iran-Americans Friday, saying in a statement that "they should be freed immediately and unconditionally." Bush named Dr. Haleh Esfandiari , Dr. Kian Tajbakhsh ,...

Iran formally charged two more people in an alleged espionage conspiracy against the government that has left Dr. Haleh Esfandiari detained in the Evin Prison for three weeks, a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said...

Prominent Iranian-American scholar Dr. Haleh Esfandiari was formally charged with plotting to overthrow the Iranian government by organizing a network "against the sovereignty of the country," according to Iranian television Monday. Esfandiari, director of the Middle East...