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Hijab crackdown: Iran executes rapper

Iran has executed a 23-year-old rapper for protesting against the custodial killing of a 22-year-old woman. Mohsen Shekari was convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary

Dec. 9, 2022

Hijab crackdown: Iran sentences protestor to death; hands out jail term to 5 others

Tightening noose, Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced an anti-government protester to death and handed down jail terms to five others for holding anti-hijab protests in the country This marks the first death sentence

Nov. 15, 2022

Hijab crackdown: Anger in Iran after video of police sexually harassing woman protestor goes viral

A fresh wave of anger has gripped Iran after a video of police sexually harassing a woman protester surfaced on social media. In a video posted by BBC Persian, a member of

Oct. 17, 2022

Saudi minister says nuclear armament against Iran ‘an option’

Riyadh : Saudi Arabia reserves the right to arm itself with nuclear weapons if regional rival Iran cannot be stopped from making one, the kingdom’s minister of state for foreign affairs has

Nov. 18, 2020

Iran’s move towards China will have global ramifications

By Asad Mirza The global audience was gripped recently by two historic developments in the Middle East. Both are supposed to have considerable affect on the regional geopolitics. The news of a

Oct. 13, 2020

Opinion

Iran, Russia to jointly produce COVID-19 vaccine

Cairo: Iran and Russia will cooperate to produce a COVID-19 vaccine in the Islamic republic as COVID-19 cases in Iran surged to 384,666 on Saturday. Meanwhile, an Iraqi health official warned that the

Sep. 6, 2020

UAE’s deal with Israel ‘huge mistake’, ‘treacherous act’: Iran

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has termed the United Arab Emirates deal with Israel as a “huge mistake”. In a televised speech condemning what he called a betrayal by the Gulf state, Rouhani

Aug. 16, 2020

US seizes millions of dollars of Iranian fuel bound for Venezuela

Further aggravating the situation, the US has seized Iran’s fuel shipments to Venezuela, alleging that Tehran defied US sanctions. Four Iranian fuel shipments that had been bound for Venezuela, were Seized by

Aug. 15, 2020

Business·Latest News·News·Politics·World

US suffers UNSC defeat on Iran arms ban

United Nations: Isolated by its allies, the US has suffered a diplomatic defeat at the UN Security Council (UNSC) which turned down its demand to extend the arms embargo on Iran. The setback

Aug. 15, 2020

COVID19: Iran’s daily death toll drops below 100 for the first time in a month

Iran said on Tuesday that the number of lives lost in the country to the novel coronavirus dropped to double figures for the first time in one month. Health ministry spokesman Kianoush

Apr. 14, 2020

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