Mahmud Ahmadinejad's power struggle has spilled out into the open in recent weeks, prompting speculation that the outgoing Iranian president is trying to retain power by positioning a handpicked ally to be his successor.

In 1986, Hooman Musavi was born in an Iranian jail, the child of political prisoners. By the age of 2 both his parents had been executed, leaving him an orphan. By 23, after years of surveillance by Iran's security forces, Musavi was back in jail -- a political prisoner himself, suffering the isolation and abuse of solitary confinement. But today, 26-year-old Musavi is free, having left jail and escaped from Iran.

A rights advocacy groups says more than 50 countries cooperated with the CIA's secret program to detain and forcefully interrogate terrorist suspects following deadly attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001.

Iran’s 12-member Guardians Council has approved changes to the country’s election law that puts elections under the authority of a new Central Executive Election Board. The law strips the Interior Ministry of its authority as the sole organizer of the elections.

Mohammad-Hossein Aghasi, the lawyer for the family of former FBI agent Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran in 2007, says Tehran should question another American allegedly involved in the case. Mosaddegh Katouzian conducts an exclusive interview with Aghasi for RFE/RL's Radio Farda.

Iran has renewed its crackdown on the press less than five months before the country’s June 14 presidential vote.

Iranian-American actor Navid Negahban is one of the stars of the enormously popular American television series "Homeland," a show whose plot revolves around CIA agents, an ex-prisoner of war, and terror threats to the United States. In December, "Homeland" finished its second season on the Showtime channel, and earlier this month it added three more Emmy awards to the haul it won last year. President Barack Obama is among its biggest fans.

A new bill making its way through the Iranian parliament says the passports of women planning to travel abroad can be confiscated if their husband, father, brother, or grandfather opposes the trip.

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