Today, an estimated fifty million Iranians are going to elect the seventh president of the Islamic Republic of Iran. There are six candidates left in the race. One of them is Hassan Rohani, who, nearly ten years ago, was the Secretary General of the Supreme National Security Council (SGSNS) and...

Google has uncovered what the company calls thousands of “politically motivated” hacking attacks targeting the email accounts of Iranian users. The list of potential suspects is not extensive: “For almost three weeks, we have detected and disrupted multiple email-based phishing campaigns aimed at compromising the accounts owned by tens of...

Human rights activists seeking to highlight the lack of genuine democracy in Iran have launched a project to allow Iranians to express their electoral preferences in an unofficial, online election that will take place alongside this Friday’s presidential election.  Chaired by renowned Russian chess player and human rights advocate Garry Kasparov,...

Today and tomorrow, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several of his ministers will hold joint sessions with the Polish Premier Donald Tusk and his ministers in Warsaw. The special event is a symbolic gesture to show the Polish government and people’s support and solidarity with the people with Israel....

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey slammed Iran yesterday as “a threat to U.S. national security,” emphasizing that the Islamic republic is “certainly preserving and building on [its] options” for creating a nuclear weapon.  “Iran is a threat to US national security in many ways, not simply...

Two candidates in Iran’s upcoming June 14th election have dropped out of the race. The field is now down to six candidates, all of them hard-liners closely linked to Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Hosseini Khamenei. Former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel and Mohammad Reza Aref will no longer contend to replace Mahmoud...