Thursday, May 9, 2024

Iran Expands Evacuations as Rains Worsen Floods

DUBAI, April 6 (Reuters) - Iran moved on Saturday to evacuate more towns and villages threatened by floods after continued rain in the southwest of the country, state television reported, as the nationwide toll...

IRGC Agent Fails to Kill Sunni Leader, Local News Website Reports

By Kayhan Life Staff On June 19, security personnel at the Makki Grand Mosque in Zahedan, the capital of the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, reportedly foiled a plot by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards...

Iran Files Complaint Against US at ICJ for Blocks on International Flood Aid

APRIL 26 - Iran has filed a complaint against the US at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague for preventing any outside financial help from reaching flood victims, Laya Joneydi, vice...

How Iran’s New Local Headscarf Crackdowns Blend With Looming Wars Abroad

KAYHAN-LONDON ENGLISH EDITION • WORLDCRUNCH The Islamic Republic of Iran has resumed its drive to enforce requirements of women wearing the hijab, after a lull for the Persian new year holidays that coincided with a threat of a major...

Global Dirty Money Watchdog Revamps Rules to Battle Weapons Financing -U.S.

WASHINGTON, Oct 23 (Reuters) - A global dirty money watchdog on Friday agreed to revamp its standards to beef up monitoring of financing aimed at evading U.S. and United Nations sanctions and proliferating weapons...

Use of Iranian ‘Kamikaze Drones’ by Russia Would Mark Escalation – Austria

BRUSSELS, Oct 17 (Reuters) - Any use of Iranian drones in Russia's war against Ukraine would mark an escalation of the conflict, Austria's Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said on Monday. "These kamikaze drones that we are seeing in...

U.S. Sanctions Networks It Says Are Connected to Iran’s Government, Military

WASHINGTON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - The United States imposed sanctions on Wednesday on two networks it says helped boost Iran's nuclear program and evade U.S. and international sanctions to benefit Tehran's government and military, the...

U.S. Issues Fewer Student Visas to Iranians Despite Exemption

By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin and Yeganeh Torbati LONDON/WASHINGTON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - With offers from four American universities, Mani Rezaei Rad gave up his well-paid job with a Siemens affiliate company in Tehran last year and...

Iran Explosion in Area With Sensitive Military Site Caused by Tank Leak -TV

June 26 (Reuters) - An explosion at an Iranian gas storage facility close to a sensitive military site near the capital Tehran was caused by a tank leak, a defence ministry spokesman told state TV...

Jailed Iranian American Appeals to Biden, Starts Hunger Strike

By Arshad Mohammed Jan 16 (Reuters) - An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless appealed to U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday to bring him home...