A former Iranian political prisoner, Ahmad Batebi, will join a delegation of Iranian dissidents on a goodwill mission to Israel next week, he told Fox News in an exclusive interview. He also attacked ...

On July 7, 1999, the Iranian government banned the popular reformist daily Salam. The next evening, students at Tehran University staged a peaceful demonstration against regime censorship. In the ...

Much of the attention on Iran over the last few years has focused on its mysterious nuclear program. Another mystery that has received far less attention is torture in Iran's prisons. It's a story the ...

Seven years ago, he was the symbol of a brave new dawn of student protest in Iran. Famously featured on the cover of The Economist waving the bloodied T-shirt of a fellow demonstrator beaten by ...

A journalist with Voice of America’s (VOA) Persian service said he was fired this week over efforts to limit coverage of Iran’s exiled Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi. Ahmad Batebi, a prominent Iranian ...

Do you remember the priceless red flag scene in Chaplin’s Modern Times? Charlie sees a car lose a red hazard flag; picks it up and waves it to gain the attention of the driver but suddenly finds ...

Michael Petrou on the cautious optimism that greeted the country’s election results -- cautious being the key word Iranian student Ahmad Batebi was arrested in 1999, two years into the presidency of ...

Ahmad Batebi, the exiled student whose unjust imprisonment came to symbolise Iran's contempt for human rights, has called for fresh unrest on the anniversary of the major protests of 1999. Ahmad ...