An Iranian Shi’ite militia, the Hezbollah Brigades, warned the United States that it must leave Iraq when ISIS is defeated or face a new war, Iran’s Fars news agency reported. Funded by the Islamic Revolutionary …
A human rights group has submitted a statement to UN Human Rights Council urging bigger involvement on the part of the international community in regards to the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran. According …
A report shows that the hunger strike in the Rajai Shahr Prison is gaining strength. More and more prisoners, from other prisons across Iran, are joining the strike. The hunger strike began in the Rajai …
In 2013, Soheil Arabi was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for criticizing the Islamic Republic on social media website Facebook. He is now facing new charges of “propaganda against the state” and “insulting …
U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing a strategy that calls for more aggressive U.S. responses to Iran’s forces, its Shi’ite Muslim proxies in Iraq and Syria, and its support for militant groups, according to five current and former U.S. officials, CNBC reports. The proposal …
Iran’s judiciary news website is reporting that an appeals court has upheld the prison sentence of a man charged with “collaborating with the hostile government” of the United States, Fox News reports. Mizan Online’s Monday …
Amid the White House review of its Iran policy and subsequent to the signing into law of H.R. 6634, which imposes tough sanctions on the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), familiar …
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should focus on trying to get U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend, amend or annul the nuclear agreement with Iran when the pair meets on the sidelines of the UN General …
Prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was sent back to Tehran’s Evin Prison on June 7 after he went on prison leave following his mother’s death. He is a critically ill prisoner of conscience serving a 13-year …
The Saudi king and Russia’s foreign minister have met in Saudi Arabia ahead of a possible visit by the monarch to Russia next month. Saudi Arabia’s state news agency says King Salman and Russian Foreign …
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