The Islamic Republic of Iran used some of the funds released to the country under the 2015 nuclear agreement to fund activity in the Middle East, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Marine General Joseph …
Imprisoned teacher’s rights activist Mahmoud Beheshti-Langroudi is sentenced to 14 years in prison after the confirmation of his latest prison sentence, his son told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). Langroudi is currently …
Critics and defenders of the nuclear deal with Iran are equally in the dark about President Donald Trump’s intentions ahead of the next congressionally mandated deadline to certify Tehran’s compliance on October 15. His decision is eagerly …
The Rouhani administration seemed to be expanding internet access, but the threat of censorship remains strong after 36-year-old minister, Mohammad Javad-Azari Jahromi was appointed in August by Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani. Rouhani’s appointment of hardliners to cabinet positions …
Iranian activists have been sharing a video showing a taxi driver in the city of Isfahan punishing his wife by driving at full speed while she held on to car’s windshield, Al Arabiya reports. The …
Iran is developing nuclear-powered submarines and building a new advanced destroyer for its navy, even as tensions rise with the United States over the Islamic Republic’s military expansion, Newsweek reports. The commander of the Iranian navy, …
One night last year at an army barrack in Tehran, a tormented young conscript rousted his sergeant from bed and marched him outside at gunpoint, made him writhe in the dirt for an hour, mimicking the …
The top adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Ali Akbar Velayati, on Tuesday told Tehran Times that the U.S. and the “Zionist regime of Israel” were behind Kurdish President Masoud Barzani’s decision to hold …
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on September 28 that he wants to hold a trilateral summit with Iranian and Iraqi leaders to coordinate their response to the Kurdish vote for independence in Iraq, Hurriyet Daily …
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, on September 28 accused Russia for trying to “shield Iran” from inspections by the UN’s nuclear watchdog into activities that could contribute to developing a nuclear bomb, …
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