Caspian Sea Water Level Is At 30-Year Low, Iranian Official Says
By Azadeh Karimi
The water level in the Caspian Sea dropped 13 centimeters between 2018 and 2019, according to Seyyed Masumeh Bani-Hashemi, the director of the National Research Center of the Caspian Sea, which operates...
Landslides Threaten Flood-Stricken Provinces in Iran, News Agency Says
April 29, 2019 - Landslides threaten 117 villages in the Iranian provinces worst hit by recent flash floods, Khabar Online news agency has said. According to the report, 92 villages in the southern province...
Belgian PM, Foreign Minister Quizzed in Parliament in Iran Visa Scandal
By Charlotte Van Campenhout
BRUSSELS, June 21 (Reuters) - Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo and Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib were quizzed by lawmakers on Wednesday after delegations from Iranian and Russian cities were granted visas to attend...
Iran’s Khuzestan Dam Is a Colossal Engineering Mistake, Expert Says
Kayhan London: The salt deposit in the Gotvand Dam’s water reservoir, in the southern province of Khuzestan, rose to 10.5 million tons in 2017, causing the salinity of the Karun River to increase by...
Most Iranians Affected by Severe Drought, Expert Says
Contrary to widespread belief, rainfall will not end the severe drought that has affected most regions of Iran, according to Massoud Farzad, a water and drought expert.
“Iran’s water shortage problem will not go away...
US Issues Fresh Iran Sanctions Over Alleged Human Rights Violations
WASHINGTON, Sept 18 (Reuters) - The United States issued a new round of Iran sanctions on Wednesday targeting 12 individuals who it said were tied to Tehran's "ongoing, violent repression of the Iranian people," including its "brutal crackdown on...
Iranian Veterinary Researchers Invent Instrument for Inflicting Burns on Lab Animals
Researchers at the University of Tabriz’s School of Veterinary Medicine have invented a heat-generating instrument that inflicts burns on the skins of laboratory animals to measure the temperature, pressure, type and severity of burns...
Iranian Oil Supertanker Released by Gibraltar Changes Course
By Hamed Mohammadi
The Iranian supertanker Adrian Darya 1 (formerly Grace 1) changed its course and headed for Turkey after Greece refused to allow the ship to refuel at its port of Kalamata.
British authorities detained...
The Case of the Jailed British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the 37-year-old British-Iranian woman who is serving a five-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for “plotting to topple the Islamic Republic regime,” has been on hunger strike...
Iran’s Parliament Blames Rouhani for Economic Troubles, Refers Him to Judiciary
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
LONDON, Aug 28 (Reuters) - Pressures mounted on Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Tuesday as lawmakers summoned him to answer questions on weak economic growth and rising prices, but the parliament was...
