U.S. Sanctions Against Iran Are Not Legitimate – Russia’s Lavrov
MOSCOW, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday that U.S. sanctions on Iran were not legitimate, in Moscow's first official comment since Washington restored sanctions on Tehran.
Lavrov said Moscow,...
Iran Executes Two People Under Security Charges, News Agency Says
DUBAI, May 21 (Reuters) - Iran executed two people for what it said were charges of creating a group to disrupt the country's security and having membership in a "terrorist" organization, the country's Tasnim news agency reported...
UK Operator of Seized Stena Impero Says Vessel in Compliance with Regulations
LONDON, July 19 (Reuters) - The British operator of an oil tanker seized by armed guards in the Gulf said the vessel, the Stena Impero, was in full compliance with all navigation and international...
Iranian Rapper To Be Jailed for Six Years, Avoiding Death Sentence – Lawyer
DUBAI (Reuters) - Well-known Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, who supported the protest movement that sprang up in Iran last year, has avoided a death sentence and been jailed for six years and three months,...
Iran Executes Two Men Accused of Economic Crimes
GENEVA, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Iran executed two men accused of economic crimes on Wednesday, part of an effort to stem financial misconduct as the country faces an economic crisis and new U.S. sanctions targeting its...
Iran Parliament Passes Measures Against Funding Terrorism
DUBAI, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Iran's parliament approved new measures against funding terrorism on Sunday, changes that officials hope will move Tehran closer to global norms and help remove it from investment blacklists as...
Ten Iranian Nationals Charged with Evading U.S. Sanctions
By Dan Whitcomb
LOS ANGELES, March 19 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors charged 10 Iranian nationals on Friday over an alleged long-running scheme to dodge U.S. sanctions on Tehran by disguising $300 million in transactions, including the...
Tehran’s Southern Districts Are the Most Unsafe for Women, Survey Shows
Women who live in the affluent northern and northwestern neighborhoods of Tehran feel safer than those whose homes are in the impoverished southern districts of the city, the Tasnim news agency reported, citing a...
Internet May Be Disrupted in Iran for ‘Security Reasons’
DUBAI, Sept 21 (Reuters) - Access to internet in Iran may be disrupted due to "security reasons", the minister of communications was quoted as saying on Wednesday by the semi-official ISNA news agency, amid widespread protests...
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...
