Sweden Detains Iranian on Suspicion of Murder in Iran in 1988
STOCKHOLM, Nov 13 (Reuters) - A 58-year-old Iranian citizen has been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of murder in Iran in 1988, prosecutors said on Wednesday, and national news agency TT said the case...
France Plans to Take Iran to International Court over Citizen Detentions
PARIS, April 3 (Reuters) - Two French citizens held in Iran for almost three years have not had consular services for more than a year prompting Paris to prepare a complaint at the International...
Iran Files Suit in International Court Against U.S. over Sanctions
By Toby Sterling
AMSTERDAM, July 17 (Reuters) - Iran has filed a lawsuit against the United States alleging that Washington's decision in May to impose sanctions after pulling out of a nuclear deal violates a...
Iran’s Government Resorts to Security Cameras, Ostracism to Deter Unveiled Women
By Parisa Hafezi
DUBAI, May 2 (Reuters) - Wary of re-igniting Iran's worst political turmoil in years, the country's rulers are resorting to new, less obtrusive tactics to punish women who refuse to wear the obligatory Islamic hijab.
The...
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...
Death Sentence for Anti-Government Protests Violates Sharia Law – Cleric
DUBAI, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A prominent dissenting Sunni cleric on Friday said the death sentence of an Iranian protester involved in anti-government unrest violated sharia law, as President Ebrahim Raisi promised to press on with...
Pentagon Review Faults Hegseth over Signal Messages on Yemen Strikes, Sources Say
By Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
WASHINGTON, Dec 3 (Reuters) - A Pentagon investigation has faulted U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for using Signal on his personal device to transmit sensitive information about planned strikes in Yemen, saying it...
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...
US, UK, Canada Issue New Iran Sanctions
By Daphne Psaledakis and Rami Ayyub
WASHINGTON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - The U.S., Britain and Canada on Friday imposed more sanctions on Iran ahead of the one-year anniversary of the death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini whilst in Iran's morality police custody, which sparked months of...
Iranians Petition to Demand Justice for Slain Protesters
By Roshanak Astaraki
A petition has been circulating online since early May encouraging Iranians to support the “Justice Campaign” officially launched on April 24 by Manouchehr Bakhtiari, the father of Pooya Bakhtiari, a 26-year-old man...
