In making the comments, Motahari was referring to a recent debate on which entity will play the final supervisory role in connection with parliament members. “The supervision of another supervisor on ...

Out of the 273 votes cast, Pezeshkian secured 158 votes and Motahari 133. Motahari garnered the highest number of votes in the Feb. 26 parliamentary election in the 30-member candidate list in Tehran ...

Source: Tabnak Dr. Ali Motahari, a member of Majlis representing Tehran, said broadcasting confessions of officials accused of treason, indicated that security authorities did not want to see unity ...

Lawmaker Ali Motahari is one of the very few insiders in the Islamic republic who openly criticizes the system he is a part of. Motahari is now in hot water for apparently going too far in his ...

TEHRAN (AFP) – Conservative lawmaker Ali Motahari on Sunday called for the release of political prisoners in Iran and questioned the ongoing house arrests of opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and ...

"The parliament was...fully against sedition," lawmaker Seyed Mahmud Nabavian said of a January 11 session. Speaking to the hard-line Fars news agency the following day, Nabavian, a cleric, added that ...