Saturday, November 29, 2025

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

Disclaimer: This asset - including all text, audio and imagery - is provided by The Conversation. Reuters does not guarantee the accuracy of, or endorse any views or opinions expressed in, this asset. SOURCE: THE CONVERSATION The ongoing...

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...