Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s Family Hopeful for Christmas Release
There are hopeful signs from Iran regarding the possible release of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a 37-year-old British-Iranian woman who is currently serving a five-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison for allegedly “plotting to topple the...
Oil From Sanchi Reached Japan Shores
By Osamu Tsukimori
TOKYO, Feb 23 (Reuters) - Oil that reached islands in southern Japan earlier this month is highly likely to have come from the sunken Iranian tanker Sanchi, the Japan Coast Guard said on...
Air Pollution Causes 50,000 Deaths A Year in Iran, Says University Expert
By Kayhan Life Staff
Of the 450,000 deaths in Iran every year that result from accidents and disease, and not from natural causes, some 50,000 are attributed to air pollution, according to Mohammad Sadegh Hassanvand,...
Headwear and Hegemony: How ‘Turban Tossing’ Protests Are Threatening Iran’s Ruling Clergy
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Iran Executions Amount to ‘State Sanctioned Killing’: UN Rights Chief
GENEVA, Jan 10 (Reuters) - The U.N. human rights chief said that the death penalty was being weaponised by Iran's government to strike fear into the population and stamp out dissent, saying the executions amounted to...
UN Says Iran Executed Over 900 People in 2024, Including Dozens of Women
GENEVA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - The number of people executed in Iran rose to 901 last year, including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of murdering their husbands after suffering abuse or being forced into marriage, the U.N. human...
Iran Sentences Two Dual Nationals to 10 Years in Prison Each -Lawyer
DUBAI, Aug 4 (Reuters) - An Iranian Revolutionary Court has sentenced two dual nationals, German-Iranian Nahid Taghavi and British-Iranian Mehran Raouf, to more than 10 years in prison, each on national security charges, their lawyer...
EU’s Josep Borrell Faces Attacks In European Parliament On Iran Policy
By Natasha Phillips
The European Union’s High Representative for foreign affairs and security policy, Josep Borrell, was criticized by dozens of European lawmakers over the EU’s stance on Iran, during a Sep. 12 debate at...
US Envoy Meets Family of Iranian-German Imprisoned in Iran
By Eric Beech and Jasper Ward
WASHINGTON, Aug 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. envoy for Iran met on Friday with the family of Iranian-German national Jamshid Sharmahd, who was sentenced to death in February in Iran after being convicted of heading a...
