In July 2014, Iranian intelligence agents raided the home of reporters Jason Rezaian and Yehaneh Salehi, searched their belongings and forced them to provide passwords to their emails and social media accounts. The raid demonstrated …
Tehran’s prosecutor has said that a number of suspects have been arrested by authorities over espionage charges, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. According to The Washington Post, the suspects “were collecting some classified information …
Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei condemned the foreign policy of the United States across the Middle East and accused Washington of destabilizing the region through its intervention, Newsweek reports. While addressing a gathering of …
The U.S. government is demanding that the 81-year-old American who was returned to prison this week be released by Iran, Fox News reports. The man, Baquer Namazi, was given a four-day leave last month due …
An Israeli F-16 fighter jet was shot down on Saturday by Syrian anti-aircraft fire and Israel struck an Iranian target that had launched an unmanned aircraft into its airspace from Syria, the Israeli military said, …
Iran has cancelled its first FLNG agreement with Norwegian Hemla following the criticism by some Iranian MPs, Hellenic Shipping News reports. In a press conference in Tehran on February 4, Iran’s oil minister Bijan Namdar …
Brigadier General Yehiam Sasson, the former head of the National Security Council’s Headquarters for Fighting Terror, said for Arutz Sheva that war with Hezbollah is not currently expected despite the sensitive situation on Israel’s northern border. …
The European Parliament held a special meeting in support of the widespread Iran protests, which has now spread to 142 cities and to all 31 provinces. The special meeting was held in Strasbourg on Wednesday, …
Afghanistan’s government on Wednesday revealed that it has reached a prisoner exchange agreement with Iran which states that over 5,000 Afghan detainees currently in Iranian prisons will be transferred to their own country, Tolo News …
Iran marks its 39th anniversary since Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile in 1979 and led a popular movement which brought about the toppling of Iran’s monarchy and dictatorship. But now, the largest countrywide uprising since 2009 …
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