Iranian court has suspended a Zoroastrian city counselor, highlighting an emerging battle over the rights of the country’s religious minorities to run for office, Radio Free Liberty reports. Sepanta Niknam, a member of the city …
In a column for The Atlantic, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif blames foreign powers and neighbors for, as he states, “a fractured Middle East.” “The discovery of oil, a drug the West soon became …
Tehran will keep “all options on the table”, should U.S. President Donald Trump designate the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, Reuters reports. Trump is expected to announce his new strategy on Iran during …
U.S. Senator Tom Cotton said that department chiefs who disagree with President Donald Trump and are unable to carry out his new Iran strategy should consider resigning from their posts, The Washington Examiner reports. “When …
Iran is working to block access to the geographical navigation application Waze due to its Israeli background, the Azerbaijan-based Trend News Agency reported on Monday. The app was temporary blocked in March, but the ban …
A member of Iran’s nuclear negotiating team has been sentenced to five years for spying, news agency Tasnim said on Sunday, citing a spokesman for the judiciary. Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei named the convicted man as …
Britain and Israel are wary of the threat that Iran poses to the Middle East, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday following a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Reuters reports. …
An imprisoned Iranian-British woman serving a five-year prison sentence in Iran now faces new charges and the possibility of her sentence being extended by 16 years, her husband said. According to Richard Ratcliffe, his wife Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe …
Iran’s commercial attaché in Russia said volume of exports to the Eurasian state grew by 36 percent in the first half of the year 2017, compared to same period last year, Mehr News Agency reports. …
First Vice President of Iran, Eshaq Jahangiri said that he “expected” his brother to be arrested, adding that now he hopes that “everyone will be treated equally in the quest for justice”, the Center for Human …
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