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Iranian human rights activists welcomed the government's decision to free at least 11 political prisoners.
The Committee for the Defence of the Iranian People's Rights (Codir) attributed the release of human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and another seven women and three men to long-running pressure by the international community.
Ms Sotoudeh was sentenced to six years in prison in September 2010 for "spreading propaganda against the system" and "acting against national security" - catch-all charges which the government has routinely used to suppress critics of its human rights record.
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) welcomes demonstrations across Iran, which have put pressure upon the theocratic dictatorship, but warns against intervention by the United States to force Iran in a particular direction