A Shi’ite paramilitary force Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, pledged to Hezbollah, has been deployed to Iraq’s border with Syria at Rabia after Iraqi forces took the area from the Peshmerga last week. According to Kurdish media network Rudaw quoting …
Fleeing grinding poverty and unemployment, thousands of Afghan Shi’ites have been recruited by Iran to defend Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime, former fighters and rights activists say as quoted by Strait Times. Afghan men and boys as …
Amnesty International has called on Tehran to immediately reverse the death penalty reportedly imposed on a Swedish-Iranian scholar who has been detained in Iran since April 2016. “The Iranian authorities must urgently quash the death sentence …
Ordinary Iranians took their grievances against the Tehran regime Tuesday to the country’s parliament as a result of what they say are the regime’s plundering of their savings and its corrupt policies, Fox News reports. …
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Iraq Monday night, but his welcome in Baghdad was far less effusive as the Trump administration pushes to isolate Iran, an important Iraqi ally, New York times reports. The …
Russia is confident that Iran is fulfilling all its obligations under a multilateral agreement on its nuclear program and will not take part in any talks on amending the deal. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov made …
A member of President Hassan Rouhani’s reelection campaign in Ilam province has been sentenced to five years in prison for “insulting the sacred,” the head of Ilam’s Justice Department announced on Sunday, October 22. The judiciary affiliated …
Ahwazi Arab Student’s eardrums teared after school’s moderator punished him by slapping, the Ahwazi Center for Human Rights reports. “Two days ago, my 12-year-old son, when he asked his classmate to change his place at the …
Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister was quick to respond to the U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who called on Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and Shi’ite militias in Iraq “to go home” now that ISIS …
A new report titled “Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence Active in Europe” has just been published by The International Committee In Search for Justice (ISJ), Iran News Update reports. Established in 2008, the ISJ became an …
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