Flags of Inconvenience – Noose Tightens Around Iranian Shipping
By Jonathan Saul, Parisa Hafezi and Marianna Parraga
LONDON/DUBAI/PANAMA CITY, July 26 (Reuters) - Somewhere on its journey from the waters off Iran, around Africa's southern tip and into the Mediterranean, the Grace 1 oil tanker...
Detention of Photojournalist Nooshin Jafari Upsets Iran’s Artistic Community
By Azadeh Karimi
More than 200 people in the Iranian film and theater community have released a statement expressing their concerns about the wellbeing of Nooshin Jafari, a photojournalist and culture reporter who was arrested...
U.N. Lawyer Pushes Back on Russian Row Over Iran Drone Inquiry
By Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 26 (Reuters) - The chief U.N. lawyer on Wednesday pushed back on a Russian argument that Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cannot report to the Security Council on Western accusations that Moscow used Iran-made...
Iran Seeks to Pass Tough New Hijab Laws, Uses AI To Track Offenders
By Kayhan Life Staff
The Islamic Republic of Iran is striving to pass the latest version of the “Hijab and Chastity Bill,” which has been drafted by the government and the Judiciary and has been...
US Designates Four Iran-Aligned Militias as Terrorist Organizations
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) - The Unites States designated four Iran-aligned militia groups as foreign terrorist organizations on Wednesday, the State Department said.
The groups are Harakat al-Nujaba, Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Harakat Ansar Allah al-Awfiya and Kata’ib al-Imam Ali, the...
Upheld Death Sentence Against Iranian-German Citizen ‘Unacceptable’ -Berlin
BERLIN, April 26 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Wednesday said Iran's decision to uphold a death sentence on dual Iranian-German citizen Jamshid Sharmahd was "unacceptable" and that Sharmahd was not given a fair trial.
In a...
Tehran Open to Prisoner Swap With Belgium
BRUSSELS/DUBAI, March 6 (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday that it was open to a prisoner swap with Belgium after the latter's Constitutional Court upheld an exchange treaty in a case that could see a convicted Iranian diplomat switched for...
Pussy Riot Members Detained at World Cup Final for Supporting Iran Protests, Denouncing Navalny...
By Sabine Siebold and Lidia Kelly
Dec 19 (Reuters) - Members of Russia's Pussy Riot band were detained on Sunday after trying to storm the pitch at the World Cup final in Qatar to protest the war in Ukraine, the imprisonment of...
VIDEO: Former IRGC Hostage Visits Vahid Beheshti
By Kayhan Life
Peter Moore, a British computer expert kidnapped in Iraq by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in 2007 and held captive for two-and-a-half years visited Vahid Beheshti on Friday.
Vahid Beheshti has resumed his...
Activists Urge Iranian Women to Publicly Unveil to Protest Crackdown
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, July 12 (Reuters) - Iranian rights activists have urged women to publicly remove their veils on "National Day of Hijab and Chastity" on Tuesday, risking arrest for defying the Islamic dress code as...
