VIDEO: Vahid Beheshti Resumes Hunger Strike After Fatwa Allegedly Issued Against Him
By Kayhan Life
Vahid Beheshti who was hospitalised on day 72 of a hunger strike to convince the British government to proscribe the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in the UK has resumed his public protest...
Iranian Actor Mohsen Afshani Arrested for Posting Provocative Video on Social Media
Police have arrested the Iranian actor and TV presenter Mohsen Afshani after he posted a video clip on his Instagram page that showed him waving a handgun and a knife while driving around in...
Iran Court Sentences Brother of President Rouhani to Five Years in Prison – Report
DUBAI, Oct 1 (Reuters) - An Iranian court sentenced the brother of President Hassan Rouhani to five years in prison, a judiciary spokesman was quoted as saying on Tuesday by the semi-official Fars news.
In May,...
Iranian Caretaker Fired for Letting Women Exercise in Traditional All-Male Gymnasium
By Reza Hamidi
The caretaker and the morshed (master) of Valiye Asr Zourkhaneh ('house of strength'), a traditional all-male gymnasium in the city of Qods (province of Tehran) have been fired for allowing a few women to exercise...
Iranian Bahá’ís Are Being Targeted After Israel Attack, UK Official Says
By Natasha Phillips
Kumar Iyer, the U.K.’s Permanent Representative to the World Trade Organization and the United Nations, has told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council that the Bahá’í community in Iran are among several minority...
Iranian Cyclist Lida Kaveh Mysteriously Disappears and Reappears
Greater Tehran Police have dismissed claims by the Iranian athlete and cyclist Lida Kaveh that she was abducted on June 27 in northwestern Tehran by a group of people who planned to transplant her...
U.S. Weighs Sanctions for Chinese Companies Over Tehran Surveillance Buildup – WSJ
Feb 4 (Reuters) - The U.S. is considering new sanctions on Chinese surveillance companies over sales to Iran's security forces, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the matter.
U.S. authorities are in advanced discussions on...
Sufi Website’s Reporters Sentenced to Jail, Flogging in Iran
Revolutionary Tribunals in Iran have handed down lengthy jail sentences to dozens of reporters working with Majzooban-e Noor (www.majzooban.org), an independent news website for the Nematollahi Gonabadi Sufi Order, according to Reporters Without Borders...
U.S. Collects $7 Mln in Iranian Assets for Victims of Terrorism Fund -Justice Dept
WASHINGTON, Jan 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. government collected $7 million in Iranian assets for victims of state-sponsored terrorism, the Justice Department said on Tuesday.
The money was the U.S. share of a civil forfeiture that...
EU Countries Are Wrong to Hire Foreign Footballers, Iranian Official Says
Ali Motahari, the Deputy Speaker of the Majlis , has criticized European Union nations for recruiting footballers born outside their countries to represent them in the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Mr. Motahari said...
