As many as nine U.S. tanks provided to Iraq’s military for the fight against the Islamic State (IS) have ended up in the hands of Iranian-backed militants, a government audit revealed on Monday, Al-Monitor reports. …
Farsi sites reported that the Iranian authorities on Monday arrested Hussein al-Shirazi, the son of Sadiq al-Shirazi, the famous Shi’ite cleric in Qom, because of a lecture in which he described the Supreme Leader of …
In May 2017, Major General Qassem Soleimani, chief of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps foreign operations branch known as the Qods Force, visited the Iraq-Syria border in the company of an Iran-backed Shia militia. A …
Iran executed at least three child offenders across the country in January 2018, Human Rights Watch said. Iran should immediately and unconditionally end the use of the death penalty for crimes committed by children under …
In a new sign of tensions with the United States, Iran on Tuesday reimprisoned the oldest American known to be held in that country, despite advice from its own doctors to extend his temporary leave …
The Iranian Regime allowed 11 of the regime’s parliamentarians to visit Evin prison on January 30, to defend how they were treating the protesters they had arrested. However, this was little more than a show visit, …
An asylum seeker who fled Iran, fearing that he would be killed by the theocratic rule for converting to Christianity, has said that if he returned to Iran, he and his family would certainly be …
Following the events of September 11, 2001, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard helped relocate al-Qaeda members and leadership by providing them with new clothes, shoes, Iranian passports, and money, Al Arabiya reports. Thе details were discovered in …
Iranian Defense Ministry announced on Monday that it has started mass production of Mohajer-6 advanced drone capable of carrying precision-guided projectiles, a new weaponized drone that carries smart bombs capable of precision strikes, according to …
Attempts to persuade the Iranian judiciary to review the death sentence handed to Ahmadreza Djalali for allegedly spying on behalf of Israel have failed and his sentence is now “definitive” and could happen at any …
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