Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Iran’s 2023-24 Budget Earmarks Massive Funds for Religious Institutions

By Kayhan Life Staff President Ebrahim Raisi submitted his government’s 2023-24 Budget Bill to the Majlis (Iranian Parliament) last week. The government’s proposed budget calls for increasing funds allocated to religious and ideological institutions. https://kayhanlife.com/news/iran/analysis-iran-crackdown-may-burnish-raisis-credentials-for-top-job/ https://kayhanlife.com/society/human-rights/exclusive-u-n-expert-backs-probe-into-irans-1988-killings-raisis-role/ The massive deficit...

EU Ministers Agree on New Package of Sanctions Against Iran

BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - EU ministers on Monday agreed on a new package of sanctions against Iran, the Swedish EU presidency said. "Ministers adopted a new package of sanctions against Iran, targeting those driving the repression. The EU...

EU Agrees New Iran Sanctions, Won’t Label Guards As ‘Terrorist’ for Now

By Bart H. Meijer and Ingrid Melander BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - The European Union on Monday introduced new sanctions against Iran for a "brutal" crackdown on protests, but the bloc's top diplomat said the country's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)...

Iran’s Government Warns EU Not to List Revolutionary Guards As Terrorist Entity

DUBAI, Jan 19 (Reuters) - Iran warned on Thursday that the European Union would "shoot itself in the foot" by listing the Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist entity, Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told the EU's High Representative for...

British Foreign Minister to Discuss Iran on N. American Trip

LONDON, Jan 17 (Reuters) - British Foreign Minister James Cleverly will seek to bolster support for Ukraine on a trip to the United States and Canada which begins on Tuesday, ahead of the first anniversary of...

Iran Arrests German for Taking Oilfield Photos, Jam-e-Jam Reports

DUBAI, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Iran has detained a German national for taking photos of "sensitive oil centres" in the country's southern province of Khuzestan, Iranian daily Jam-e Jam reported on Tuesday. "The German national was detained while taking...

UK Sanctions Iran’s Prosecutor General After Akbari Execution

LONDON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - British foreign minister James Cleverly said on Saturday Britain had imposed sanctions on Iran's Prosecutor General after the execution of British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari. "Sanctioning him today underlines our disgust at Alireza Akbari's...

Iranian Chess Referee Spars with Governing Body over Women’s Solidarity

By Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber GENEVA, Jan 13 (Reuters) - Iranian chess referee Shohreh Bayat says a gesture of solidarity with female compatriots at a tournament in Iceland has caused a feud with the game's global body and seen...

France Has Not Ruled Out Declaring Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to Be a Terrorist Group

By John Irish PARIS, Jan 10 (Reuters) - France's foreign ministry said on Tuesday it had not ruled out the idea that the European Union designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, a day after Germany...

Pope Condemns Iran Government’s Use of Death Penalty Against Protesters

By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Pope Francis condemned Iran's execution of protesters for the first time on Monday in his traditional New Year's address to diplomats, and said the war in Ukraine was...