A man and woman from New South Wales who allegedly exported 90 tonnes of nickel alloys to Iran have become the first people in Australia ever charged with breaches of UN sanctions, ABC News reports. …
Germany’s Federal Office for Economic Affairs and Export Control approved a license for a company to sell militarily applicable technology to Iranian companies that subsequently was used in Syrian regime chemical weapons attacks, reported the …
Iraqi forces are preparing an operation to consolidate control of an area near the Iran border to be used for the transit of Iraqi oil, two officials said on Monday, highlighting concern about mountainous terrain …
Iran has urged Turkey to stop its military offensive against Kurds in a northern region of Syria, claiming Ankara’s actions have breached the war-ravaged country’s sovereignty and helped to increase instability, Express reports. Last month …
Iranian women are continuing to protest against the compulsory wearing of hijabs despite 29 people being arrested last week, Australian TV network 9News reports. Photos and videos of defiant women holding their hijabs aloft on …
Mohammad-Reza Bahonar, a member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council, said doctors in Iran removed the council’s chairman Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi’s kidney by mistake. Bahonar told Qanun newspaper that doctors removed Shahroudi’s healthy kidney while …
An Iranian member of parliament has revealed that French President Emmanuel Macron has sent a message setting three conditions ahead of his upcoming visit to Iran, Al Arabiya reports. The first demand was that Iran’s …
Russia has prevented “an inevitable Israeli attack” on what the daily characterizes as “Iran’s missile factories in Lebanon and Syria,” Radio Farda reports. The daily quotes “informed sources” as saying that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin …
Just two weeks after the mass protests that rocked 130 cities across Iran ended, sources say, the rallies are back for round two but thousands of protesters remain illegally detained, Iran News Updates reports. The …
Iran’s judiciary acknowledged Sunday that it has granted medical leave to an ailing 81-year-old Iranian-American convicted of espionage charges, one of a number of dual nationals swept up in detentions criticized by the United Nations, …
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