A magnitude 5.2 earthquake jolted a town near the Iranian capital on Wednesday, according to state television. The quake caused people in buildings to pour out into the streets in fear, Mehr News reports. The …
An Iranian-Swedish academic sentenced to death in Iran on espionage charges has dismissed a confession aired on Iranian TV as false, saying it was coerced, RFERL reports. Ahmadreza Djalali, a researcher at Stockholm’s Karolinska Institute, …
The husband of jailed British woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has sought to challenge the latest attack by a senior Iranian cleric denouncing her as a ‘dirty spy’, Daily Mail reports. The move came after the hardline …
There are 2,000 child-widows in the country who are between the ages of 9 to 12, the state-run IRNA news agency cited the head of the Women’s Fraction in the Majlis (Iranian regime parliament) on …
China’s top oil and gas company CNPC is considering taking over Total’s (TOTF.PA) stake in a giant Iranian gas project if the French company leaves Iran to comply with any new U.S. sanctions, industry sources …
Two employees at Sweden’s embassy in Teheran have been suspended from their positions over suspicions of improper visa processing. Sweden’s Foreign Ministry (UD) has been investigating irregularities at the embassy since the summer, Sveriges Radio …
Human rights organizations have organized a protest near the United Nations headquarters in New York to denounce Iran’s aggressive human rights practices, calling on the international community to support their efforts by imposing sanctions on …
Iran’s southeastern province of Kerman has been hit by at least two strong quakes in recent days, injuring at least 18 people and damaging around 20 buildings, Radio Farda reported. The first quake of magnitude …
A top-class Iranian footballer has filed for asylum in Switzerland because she faces jail at home for playing without a hijab while wearing shorts and in a match alongside men. Famous league player in Iran, …
A magnitude-6 earthquake has once again struck an area near the Iran-Iraq border in the Iranian province of Kermanshah one month after another massive quake killed over 600 people at the same place, Iran Front …
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