Franco-Irish Citizen Sentenced to 6.5 Years in Iran As Health Worsens – Family
PARIS, March 8 (Reuters) - Iran has sentenced Franco-Irish citizen Bernard Phelan to 6.5 years in prison for "providing information to another country", his sister said in a statement, adding that her 64-year-old brother was at risk...
Is the Poisoning of Schoolgirls in Iran a New Front in the War Against...
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Exhibition on Iranian Women’s Protests Opens at Jerusalem Islamic Art Museum
By Ahmad Rafat
Some 52 works by contemporary Iranian artists, active in Iran and abroad, are on show in an exhibition titled “Five-Woman, Life, Freedom” at the Museum for Islamic Art in Jerusalem through April...
Iran’s Judiciary Says Women Will Be Punished for Violating Islamic Dress Code -Irna
DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Women violating the Islamic dress code will be punished, Iran's Judiciary Chief Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei said on Monday according to the official IRNA news agency, reaffirming the law after months of...
Iran’s Khamenei Calls Girls’ Poisoning ‘Unforgivable’ After Activists Blame the Government
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader said on Monday that poisoning schoolgirls is an "unforgivable" crime which should be punished by death if deliberate, state TV reported, amid public anger over a wave of...
Protests Break Out in Iran Over Schoolgirl Illnesses
DUBAI, March 4 (Reuters) - Worried parents protested in Iran's capital Tehran and other cities on Saturday over a wave of suspected poison attacks that have affected schoolgirls in dozens of schools, according to Iranian news agencies and...
Iran’s Parliament to Investigate ‘Toxic Gas Attacks’ on Girls’ Schools
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Majlis (Iranian Parliament) has established a working group to investigate the recent wave of apparent toxic gas attacks on girls’ schools in several Iranian cities.
The chair of the Majlis’ Education,...
Germany Calls for Probe of Reported Iranian School Girl Poisonings
BERLIN, March 3 (Reuters) - Reports of poison attacks on school girls in Iran are shocking and must be investigated fully, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday, joining the United States in expressing her concern.
Hundreds of Iranian girls in...
Reports of Poisoned Iranian School Girls ‘Deeply Concerning’ – White House
WASHINGTON, March 2 (Reuters) - The reports of poisoned school girls in Iran is "deeply concerning" and the world needs to know what is causing the ailments, White House national security spokesman John Kirby told reporters on Thursday.
Hundreds...
Spanish Woman Freed From Iran Jail Says Positive Thoughts Kept Her Going
MADRID, March 2 (Reuters) - A 25-year-old Spanish woman who was jailed for over four months in Iran on spying charges and has now returned home after her release last week, said she kept forcing herself throughout her ordeal...
