Friday, January 31, 2025

Protests Continue in Iran as Mahsa Amini Anniversary Passes

DUBAI, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Sunday amid a widespread crackdown by security forces a year after a young Kurdish woman's death in custody set off some of the worst political unrest in four decades. The...
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DC Protesters Gather Outside the White House to Remember Mahsa Amini’s Death in Iran

REUTERS/KL: Hundreds chanted slogans denouncing the Iranian government and calling on the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to increase sanctions on Iran. Among them was Navid Mohebbi of The National Union For Democracy...

Iran Guards Detain Dual National for ‘Organising Unrest and Sabotage’

DUBAI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Saturday detained a dual national suspected of "trying to organise unrest and sabotage", the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported, amid heightened security to thwart planned protests a year...

Iran’s Security Forces Out in Force a Year After Mahsa Amini’s Death

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Iranian security forces cracked down on protests in Kurdish areas of the country on Saturday and briefly detained the father of Mahsa Amini, a year after the young woman's death in custody...

Israel’s Netanyahu Says Iran ‘Violating All Its Commitments’ to International Community

JERUSALEM, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday said Iran's actions proved it was "violating all its commitments" to the international community, after Tehran moved to ban multiple inspectors assigned to the...

Women Set Fire to Prison Ward Near Tehran – IRNA

Sept 16 (Reuters) - Prison guards on Saturday put out a fire started by female inmates in a prison ward near the capital Tehran, Iran's official IRNA news agency. It said female convicts on death row protesting...

Atomic Watchdog Condemns Iran’s ‘Unprecedented’ Barring of Inspectors

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi on Saturday condemned Iran's "disproportionate and unprecedented" move to bar multiple inspectors assigned to the country, hindering its oversight of Tehran's atomic activities. Iran's move...
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Israeli Intelligence Minister Urges UK to Declare IRGC Terrorist Organization

By Kayhan Life Staff Israeli Intelligence Minister Gila Gamliel was a guest speaker in the UK House of Lords on Sept. 7 at an event organized by Lord Stuart Polak CBE to honor the memory...

Iran Says It Is Ready to Implement Prisoner Swap Deal With U.S

DUBAI, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Iran is ready to implement a Qatar-mediated deal with the United States, its foreign minister said on Thursday, under which Washington and Tehran each would free five prisoners and $6 billion in Iranian...

US, UK, Canada Issue New Iran Sanctions

By Daphne Psaledakis and Rami Ayyub WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S., Britain and Canada on Friday imposed more sanctions on Iran ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini whilst in Iran's morality police custody, which sparked months of...