The Kaleme website reports that he has repeatedly demanded the right to be put on trial where he could "tell the truth" but the authorities have refused. "I and (Zahra) Rahnavard have on several occasions since our house arrest expressed our readiness through the guards and officials to appear in an official and open court," he said.

Tthe hard-liners are worried that, now that Rohani is in power and people they don't want back [are back], activities they don't want to see happening are picking up. It is unclear just how many Iranian dissidents have returned to Iran since Rohani took power in August. De Wolff says he's familiar with four cases, and in each case they were detained and interrogated by the IRGC, and their passports confiscated.

Iranian Living Rooms by photographer Enrico Bossan is a book of photographs taken in the domestic havens where Iranians, very much like the wider Western world, indulge in drink, smoking, sex and radical ideas. It s where they express the casual lifestyles that thrive despite the preferences of Iran s government

A petition addressed to Hassan Rouhani, president of Iran and head of its Supreme Security Council, requesting the release of Mir Hossein Mousavi, Mehdi Karroubi, and Zahra Rahnavard from house arrest has gathered more than 13,000 signatures since its online publication on February 12