Iran has stepped up building marine nuclear propulsion systems partly in response to Washington’s increasingly “hostile” stance on the nuclear deal, The Herald reports. The Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran (AEOI) said that the nuclear …
Iran on Monday rejected Western claims that it was arming Huthi rebels in Yemen, saying the conflict was instead the result of British and U.S. arms supplies to Saudi Arabia, The Nation reports. “The Islamic …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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