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Iran Detains 35 Women for Going to Football Match During FIFA Head Visit

March 2018

Iranian authorities on Thursday detained 35 women for trying to get into a major football game in Tehran that was attended by the president of the international football association, FIFA, the BBC reported. The women were not named …

Persian Spring

Iranian Women’s Affairs VP Says Iran against Using Force Regarding Hijab

March 2018

Iran’s vice president for women’s affairs insisted on Wednesday the government opposed using “force” to ensure women wear the hijab, after a spate of protests stirred debate over the mandatory headscarf, The New Arab reports. …

Persian Spring

Head of Khamenei’s Guards Mysteriously Disappears, Possibly Arrested

March 2018

Iranian sources have reported the disappearance of General Vahid Haghanian, the commander of Iran’s Supreme Leader guards nearly about a month ago, amid speculations that he might have been detained or placed under house arrest, …

Persian Spring

Iran Announces Opening of Another Islamic College in Syria

March 2018

Tehran announced on Wednesday that they will be opening the ‘College of Islamic Schools’ in Damascus, approximately a month after announcing the opening of several branches of the Iran-based Islamic Azad University across Syrian cities, …

Persian Spring

Iran Wrestling Head Quits, Refusing to Lie over Facing Israelis

March 2018

The head of Iran’s wrestling federation resigned on Wednesday after criticising authorities for letting athletes pay the price for the ban on facing Israeli opponents, Radio Farda reports. Wrestling is a hugely popular sport in …

Persian Spring

Iran Warns of Regional Tension Over Water Resources

February 2018

Iranian spiritual leader’s advisor for military affairs, Yahya Rahim Safavi, warned of regional tensions between Iran and its neighbors over water in the coming years, stressing that his country was not seeking to resort to …

Persian Spring

Blacklisted Iranian Minister Uses UN Human Rights Platform to Bash the U.S.

February 2018

As scores of protestors demonstrated outside, the U.N.’s top human rights body on Tuesday gave a platform to an Iranian regime official sanctioned by the European Union for his role in “human rights violations, arbitrary …

Persian Spring

Women Protesting Against Hijab in Iran Will Be Charged with Inciting Prostitution and Jailed

February 2018

Iranian women protesting the compulsory headscarf by taking off their hijab in public could be facing up to a decade in jail for ‘inciting prostitution’, police has warned, Daily Mail reports. Authorities in Iran are …

Persian Spring

Iran Claims It Is ‘Safest Country in Region’ Despite U.S. Sanctions, Terrorism, Protests

February 2018

Iran’s top diplomat bragged about his country’s security situation, claiming that Tehran has withstood U.S. sanctions and other problems plaguing the Middle East, Newsweek reports. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made the comments Monday …

Persian Spring

Iran’s Currency Crisis Shakes Rouhani’s Middle-Class Base

February 2018

Barely over a month after economic grievances, mainly among the working class, sparked deadly protests across the country, fluctuations in the value of the Iranian currency — the rial — have generated grave disappointment with …

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