Iran’s Football Federation has caused fresh controversy by placing tight restrictions on photography and video during international women’s futsal games. An Iranian citizen journalist, who writes under a pseudonym to protect her identity, wrote the …
Iran’s hardline judiciary suggested on Tuesday that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, an Iranian-British charity worker imprisoned in the country, might be subject to early release, in the most positive signal so far on her case, Financial Times …
Concluding a two-day visit to Iran, the top United Nations humanitarian official said the Organization is ready to fill any gaps in the relief efforts following the devastating earthquake on 12 November that struck the …
Iranian state TV has reported that a magnitude 4.3 earthquake injured 36 people in the western province of Lorestan. TV reported the depth of the quake a 10 kilometers, The Washington Post writes. Reza Aryaee, an official …
Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe, the Iranian-British dual citizen who is in jail in Tehran, has been informed by Iranian authorities that she will have a second trial on December 10 on the charge of “spreading propaganda,” …
Iran has told jailed Iranian-British aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe that she will appear in court next month accused of spreading propaganda, her husband, Richard, said on Thursday as quoted by Reuters. “She’s been told she …
In a letter addressing Iran’s ambassador to the UN, 175 Nobel laureates have called on the country’s authorities to release Iranian-born Swedish resident Ahmadreza Djalali, who says he has been imprisoned in Tehran for refusing …
A political prisoner in Rajaee Shahr Prison in Iran, labor activist Reza Shahabi, has revealed that prison authorities have been providing inmates with livestock feed and mistreating them in the prison’s hospital, the Center for …
The incidence of suicide in is turning into a national disaster and a real crisis in Iran. As highlighted by media reports and comments by state officials, the rate has recently escalated, especially among women …
According to Iranian agencies, the black currency market in Tehran has stopped the selling and buying of foreign currencies because of a sharp rise in the price of the U.S. dollar, the euro and the …
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