Iran just banned the teaching of English in primary schools – even after school hours – because, it said, those early years should be devoted to strengthening students’ skills in the Persian language and Iranian …
Eight people have been detained in The Hague after they broke into the Iranian embassy and threw projectiles at the building, police said on Saturday as quoted by Radio Farda. The suspects were arrested on …
Dozens of people rallied in Yonge-Dundas Square on Saturday in support of ongoing anti-government demonstrations in Iran, CBS reports. Carrying Iranian flags and chanting slogans calling for peaceful regime change, Iranian-Canadians and other supporters braved …
The Iranian regime headed by Ali Khamenei has reportedly arrested former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Shiraz city for inciting unrest and more demonstrations following statements he made earlier in Bushehr. Authorities are now seeking to …
Thirty-two crew members, including 30 Iranians and two Bengalese, have gone missing after two vessels collided off China’s east coast on Saturday evening, China’s Ministry of Transport said Sunday as quoted by Tehran Times. The …
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) says anti-government protests that it blames on foreign instigators have been “defeated,” RFERL reports. “Iran’s revolutionary people along with tens of thousands of Basij forces, police and the Intelligence …
Ignoring pleas by international organizations and in violation of two international treaties, Iran executed 19-year-old Amirhossein Pourjafar, who was sentenced to death as a juvenile, on January 4, 2018, in Tehran, the Center for Human …
Efforts by the Trump administration to marshal a muscular international response to Iran’s crackdown on anti-government protesters appeared to backfire on Friday, as members of the UN Security Council instead used a special session called …
Protests that have rocked Iran have reached the ninth consecutive day on Friday amid rising calls for more demonstrations under the slogan “The Friday of Anger for our Martyrs” referring to the 50 protesters who …
A decision by the Iranian government to reopen border crossings of Haji Omaran and Parvezkhan with the Kurdistan Region did not include crossings for Kurdish Kolbar, the cross-border porters, thus border stores that are full …
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