Berlinale Winner Explores Moral Dilemmas of Iran’s Capital Punishment
By Thomas Escritt
BERLIN, Feb 29 (Reuters) - A drama film shot in secret to evade government censorship that highlights the moral dilemmas faced by those caught in the web of Iran's capital punishment machine won...
Iranian Asylum Seekers to Germany Rose in Number in January, Report Says
By Azadeh Karimi
Some 12,000 foreign nationals applied for asylum in Germany in January, of which 524 were Iranians, according to a report by the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), a Federal agency...
Iran Barred from International Financial System After Blacklisting by FATF
By Ahmad Rafat
On February 21, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) blacklisted Iran for failing to enact the Palermo Convention, the Countering the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) acts.
The decision came...
Iran’s Downing of Ukrainian Plane a Mistake Is No Defense, Says Canadian Lawyer
By Natasha Phillips
The Iranian government’s statement that it made a mistake in shooting down a Ukrainian commercial jet which killed all 176 passengers last month would not be a valid legal defense in the...
Iran’s Central Bank Chief Says Ratifying or Rejecting FATF Has No Impact on Currency...
By Reza Hamidi
The Governor of the Islamic Republic of Iran Central Bank Abdolnaser Hemmati has said that ratifying or rejecting the two remaining articles of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) will not impact...
U.S. Accuses Huawei of Stealing Trade Secrets, Assisting Iran
By Karen Freifeld
NEW YORK, Feb 13 (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused Huawei of stealing trade secrets and helping Iran track protesters in its latest indictment against the Chinese company, escalating the U.S. battle with...
Iran’s Women Reporters Suffer Widespread Sexual Harassment, Magazine Reports
By Azadeh Karimi
A recent survey conducted among a group of 59 female news reporters by the Tehran-based monthly magazine Communication Management (magiran) has shown that 90 percent of them experienced some types of sexual...
Britain’s Metro Bank Hires Lawyers Over Cuba and Iran Sanctions Breaches
LONDON, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Britain's Metro Bank has hired a law firm to help it investigate payments routed through the bank that breached U.S. sanctions, a regulatory filing showed.
One Metro bank customer was...
Iran Has Curbed Illegal Sale of Birth Certificates, Spokesman Says
By Azadeh Karimi
Iran's new online identity verification system has stopped the illegal sale of birth certificates and national identity cards belonging to drug addicts and deceased people, according to Seifollah Aboutorabi, the Spokesman for...
Iran Insists It Has Released All High-School Students Arrested in November Protests
By Azadeh Karimi
None of the high school students reportedly arrested by the security forces during the November protests over rising fuel prices are in prison any longer, the Minister of Education Mohsen Haji Mirzaei...
