Persian Spring

Iran’s President Rouhani said on Wednesday that Yemen’s missile attack targeting Riyadh on Saturday was “a reaction to Saudi aggression”, Al-Arabiya reports. “How should the Yemeni people react to the bombardment of their country. So they …

Head of Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, Hamid Mohammadi said yesterday that citizens of his country will not participate in the performance of Umrah this year, citing political reasons and the lack of the necessary arrangements. …

Europe must make clear how it will react if the United States pulls out of the multinational nuclear deal with Iran and do more to encourage international banks to return to the country, a senior Iranian …

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasimi denied Iran’s alleged connection to al-Qaeda and called the claim an “empty media whirlwind” by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Officials said such claims are a “shameless” attempt to falsify 9/11 records …

Fifty legislators have joined forces to establish a new faction, the first of its kind in Iran, in the Iranian Parliament dedicated to defending citizens’ rights. The new faction has been named the Civic Rights Faction (CRF) and …

Following an avalanche of criticism by lawyers and journalists, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s government decided to return a new controversial bill to its Cultural Commission for further review. The bill titled the Media Governance Organization …

Iran put a ballistic missile on display on Saturday as thousands marched to mark the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the U.S. embassy, as a senior official said Donald Trump was a “crazy individual” turning …

Iran marked on Saturday the anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover and hostage crisis of 1979 during which it displayed a ground-to-ground missile at a time when the future of its nuclear deal with world …

The head of Iran’s judiciary has sided with proponents of banning religious minorities from local elections while the government of Hassan Rouhani has reiterated their rights as citizens under the Constitution. In his remarks, Chief Justice Sadegh Larijani …

A trader blamed for helping Iran to evade sanctions invoked the name of Turkey’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, as part of a scheme that the U.S. prosecutors claim it was backed by Turkey’s government, according …