Iran has responded to U.S. sanctions by increasing the funding of its missile program, Vladimir Sazhin, an expert on Mideast affairs told Sputnik. Tehran has made considerable progress in the missile production by creating over 20 types …
Plans for an independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan have angered Ankara and Tehran, but little has changed for Iranian Kurdish rebels at rear bases in the mountains of northern Iraq, France 24 reports. A spokesman …
Three prisoners were reportedly hanged in Iran. One prisoner at Ardabil Central Prison on murder charges and two prisoners hanged at Tabriz Central Prison on rape charges, Shabtab News reports. According to the human rights news …
Iran’s clandestine spy network has been threatening and blackmailing scores of journalists, even going so far as to detain and threaten the family members of these reporters, in order to ensure positive coverage in global …
U.S. prosecutors have charged a former Turkish economy minister and the former head of a Turkish state bank with conspiring to evade the U.S. sanctions against Iran, widening an investigation that has fuelled tension between …
The spokesman for the Iranian regime’s judiciary, at a press conference on September 3, regarding medical treatment for prisoners claimed: “The Prisons’ Organization has done considerably more than its capacity to take care of the …
A special envoy of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday called on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to cooperate in putting more pressure on North Korea following Pyongyang’s sixth nuclear test earlier this month, The Japan …
Iran will never breach the nuclear deal it signed with major powers, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed, The Business Insider reports. Rouhani made the remarks at a meeting with the Japanese Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Masahiko …
Women get absolutely zero for supporting [Hassan] Rouhani! If we hadn’t voted in this election, does Rouhani think he would have gotten re-elected with the numbers he did?, Leila, a 34-year-old women’s rights activist, shot …
In a new escalation of Saudi-Iranian tensions that could impact Lebanon, Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir Tuesday accused Iran of destabilizing the region through Hezbollah and “terrorist attacks,” Albawaba reports. Jubeir also dismissed as …
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