Nizar Zakka, a U.S. resident and Lebanese businessman has been in an Iranian prison since September 2015. His son, Nadim Nizar Zakka, is campaigning for his release, Iran News Update reports. Nizar Zakka was sentenced …
Although it had been expected for months, U.S. President Donald Trump’s unveiling of his new strategy on Iran seems to have taken the ruling elite in Tehran by surprise, intensifying the power struggle within it, Asharq Al-Awsat …
The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said on Sunday that the U.S. would “stay” in the Iranian nuclear agreement negotiated between the world powers, including the U.S., and Iran, but “aim to …
Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani warned that his country will revise its loyalty to the 2015 nuclear deal with the world powers if the U.S. administration continues pressures and attempts to deprive Tehran of its …
Another Iranian convert to Christianity has been arrested in the city of Dezful, southwest of the country, an Iranian Christian rights advocate group has confirmed in an interview with Radio Farda. “Security agents detained Mohammad …
The United States has formally added Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to its antiterrorism sanctions list, Press TV reports. “I am authorizing the Treasury Department to further sanction the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps …
Europe will give fresh backing to the Iran nuclear deal on Monday after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to tear it up in a speech that alarmed allies across the Atlantic. European Union foreign ministers are urging …
A member of Iran’s capital city council has disclosed that salaries paid by Tehran’s municipality are two times more than the number of its registered staff, Radio Farda reports. “According to the statistics, while Tehran municipality’s …
Saudi Arabia’s king praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his “visionary” new strategy vis-a-vis Iran during a phone call between the two leaders on Saturday, the White House said Sunday, The Hill reports. “King Salman praised …
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday denied reports that Tehran had closed a border crossing with northern Iraq in response to an independence referendum in Iraq’s Kurdish region last month, the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) …
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