On Wednesday, the Iranian regime’s office of the Ministry of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic of Iran (also known as Ettela’at) arrested a 15-year-old student girl in the city of Abadan, the Ahwazi Center for Human …
With the approaching military defeat of the Islamic State, Iran is stepping up its economic involvement in Syria. Iran is not waiting for the end of the fighting and the final overthrow of ISIS, but …
In an open letter to Muslim religious leaders worldwide, Mir Hossein Mousavi’s daughters have accused “some” Iranian officials of “hoping and planning” for the “gradual death” of their father, mother Zahra Rahnavard, and fellow opposition …
An ongoing dispute in Iran over whether religious minorities can be elected to local councils in Muslim-majority constituencies could be decided by the country’s highest arbitration body, the Expediency Council. This issue became public after …
The Supreme Audit Court of Iran has announced that former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the last 18 months of his presidency, spent 4.6 trillion tomans or approximately $1.3 billion of Iran’s oil income “illegally”, Radio …
Child labor and human trafficking represent a serious problem in Iran, with many blaming the government itself for perpetuating these terrible crimes. Reza Ghadimi, the Managing Director of the Tehran Social Services Organization, responded to a …
In the wake of Washington’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani described U.S. President Donald Trump as a “liar,” saying that Washington continues to …
Security forces in Iran prevented former President Mohammad Khatami from leaving his house on Wednesday. According to the website Kalameh, linked to the Green Movement, security forces have told Khatami they had been instructed to stop him …
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, said on Wednesday that it is a “waste of time” to respond to the speech against Iran by U.S. President Donald Trump, Tehran Times reports. “I do …
U.S. President Donald Trump followed up his Iran speech announcing that he would not be certifying the Iran nuclear deal by also making clear his administration stood in solidarity with ordinary Iranians. Just two days …
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