Iranian Theater Manager, Director Detained After Release of Play Teaser
Saeed Asadi, the manager of the City Theater of Tehran, and Maryam Kazemi, the director of a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s comedy “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” have been arrested by security agents after...
Award-Winning Film Director Panahi to Serve Decade-Old Jail Term
DUBAI, July 19 (Reuters) - Award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi will serve a six-year prison sentence originally issued by a Tehran court in 2010, a judiciary spokesman said on Tuesday, amid a stepped-up crackdown on dissent...
Iran Protests: UK’s Law Society Expresses Concern Over Detentions of Iranian Lawyers
By Natasha Phillips
Britain's regulatory body for solicitors the Law Society, published a statement on Nov. 22 expressing concern about the ongoing detention and ill-treatment of lawyers in Iran.
The statement follows an Oct. 18 press...
DC Protesters Gather Outside the White House to Remember Mahsa Amini’s Death in Iran
REUTERS/KL: Hundreds chanted slogans denouncing the Iranian government and calling on the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden to increase sanctions on Iran. Among them was Navid Mohebbi of The National Union For Democracy...
South Korea Says It’s Making Efforts to Transfer Iran’s Frozen Funds
SEOUL, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Efforts are under way to transfer Iran's funds that had been frozen in South Korea, foreign minister Park Jin said, after Teheran reached a deal with the United States to release American citizens...
Russia, Iran, and 3 Others Agree Caspian Status, but Not Borders
AKTAU, Kazakhstan, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Iran and four ex-Soviet nations, including Russia, agreed in principle on Sunday how to divide up the potentially huge oil and gas resources of the Caspian Sea, paving...
India’s Iranian Oil Imports in June Fall as Sanctions Fears Bite – Sources
By Nidhi Verma and Sai Sachin Ravikumar
NEW DELHI, July 11 (Reuters) - India's oil imports from Iran declined by 15.9 percent in June, the first month after the United States said it would reimpose...
U.S. Renews Iran Sanctions, Grants Oil Waivers to China, Seven Others
By Humeyra Pamuk and Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The United States snapped sanctions back in place on Monday to choke Iran's oil and shipping industries, while temporarily allowing top customers such as...
Germany Says Efforts Disregarded After Dual National Sentenced to Death in Iran
BERLIN, Feb 21 (Reuters) - German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said Tuesday that efforts to advocate on behalf of a German-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran had been disregarded by Tehran.
She called on the Iranian leadership to remedy...
Global Trade Union Condemns Mass Arrests of Workers in Iran
Kayhan Life,28 December - IndustriALL Global Union, an international union representing 50 million workers in 140 countries in the mining, energy and manufacturing sectors, has written to the government of Iran condemning the arrest of...
