The Paris-based the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the world’s financial watchdog, has extended a waiver for punitive measures against Iran for another six months, refusing, however, to remove the country from its blacklist. The …
A video showing an Iranian policeman shoving a woman protesting against mandatory headscarves off her makeshift podium in a busy Tehran street was widely criticized by social media users, AFP News Agency reported. According to …
General Qassem Rezaei, Commander of Iran’s Border Police Brigadier, said that in the past 11 months, the border guards have seized 68 tons of different kinds of illicit drugs, preventing their smuggling. Brigadier General Rezaei …
The nuclear deal with Iran is unacceptable because Tehran could not be trusted to not produce a nuclear bomb in the future, Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Adel Al-Jubeir said. The so-called “sunset clause” …
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavushoglu said that Syrian government air strikes in eastern Ghouta were unacceptable and called on Russia and Iran to put pressure on Damascus authorities, Reuters reported. “Russia and Iran need to …
The situation with Syria is very complicated amid growing concern a wider regional war could erupt, Iran’s deputy foreign minister Abbas Araghchi told the BBC. According to him, fear of war is everywhere in the …
Dozens of Iranian refugees waiting in Austria to be resettled in the U.S. have now been banned entry by the Trump administration, ABC News cited refugee resettlement groups and the State Department. The Christians and other religious minorities, …
Iran is ready to work with the new UN special envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, to resolve the crisis there through political approaches, Iranian United Nations ambassador Gholamali Khoshroo said in a meeting with UN …
Iran is still respecting the 2015 nuclear deal, but Tehran is looking to develop seaborne nuclear capabilities, a report made by a UN atomic watchdog shows. This is the ninth report of the International Atomic …
Iranian regime has revealed its intentions to introduce a national cryptocurrency, NPR informs. In a tweet published Wednesday, an Iranian official stated that a test model for a “cloud-based digital currency” is being developed for submission to …
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