U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed the world body’s Human Rights Council on Sunday, saying it should be “ashamed” for inviting an Iranian minister, sanctioned for known human rights violations, to speak …
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized the large budget allocated to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s ‘Islamization of Science’ project. Rouhani said during a speech on Saturday at the 31st round of the Khawarizmi International Festival …
Iran said pro-Damascus forces would press ahead with attacks on an insurgent enclave near the Syrian capital, as ground fighting raged on there in defiance of a U.N. resolution demanding a 30-day truce across the …
A member of Iran’s Parliament has sharply condemned the country’s state-funded radio and TV broadcaster for airing a film that accused a prominent academic who died under suspicious circumstances in Tehran’s Evin Prison as a …
U.S. congressman Dana Rohrabacher has warned Iran its days are numbered after widespread protests gripped the country, The Daily Star reports. The Republican said the end of the Islamic Republic is in sight, saying the …
Iranian security forces have detained three more environmental activists on spying charges, the judiciary said on Sunday, weeks after a first wave of arrests and the death in detention of an Iranian-Canadian head of a …
Iran’s Interior Ministry chided police for using force against a woman protesting the mandatory headscarf, a rare conciliatory gesture toward women challenging a primary tenet of the Islamic Republic’s belief system, Bloomberg reports. The woman, filmed …
A newly built avantgarde mosque in the heart of Iran’s capital would have hardliners shouting from the minarets – if there were any, The Independent reports. The architects behind the Vali-e-Asr mosque dispensed with the …
The passage of a UN resolution holding Iran to account for supplying missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen will be critical in stopping the proliferation of such weapons to other extremist groups in the region, …
Russia has laid the groundwork for a likely veto on Monday of a British, the U.S. and French bid for the United Nations Security Council to call out Iran over its weapons falling into the …
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