What Would You Do If You Had Only One Day of Freedom? Husband Asks
April 02, 2017
Sunday, April 2, 2017, marks the one year anniversary of detention in Iran of British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. The 38-year-old mother was arrested during a family visit to Iran last year. She is...
China Complains to U.S. About New Iran Sanctions
May 18, 2017
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Thursday it had lodged a complaint with the United States after it imposed narrow penalties on Iranian and Chinese figures for supporting Iran's ballistic missile programme.
China...
Iran Discusses Women’s Attendance of Sports Events
October 21, 2017 Iran's Supreme Revolutionary Cultural Council is set to discuss the issue of allowing women to attend events at sports stadiums.
Zahra Ayatollahi, the head of the Women’s Social and Cultural Council, has said...
COLUMN-Commentary: Inside Trump’s Middle East mess
June 14, 2017
By Amir Handjani
(Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s attempt to bring peace and stability to the Middle East has backfired. He has put a major U.S. ally, Qatar, in a geopolitical crisis and...
Saudi Arabia, Iraq agree oil output cut needs 9-month extension
May 22, 2017
By Ahmed Rasheed and Ernest Scheyder
- First visit by top Saudi oil official to Iraq in 30 years
- Saudi, Russia pushing for nine-month extension to cuts
- Goldman says stocks should normalise if cuts prolonged (Updates...
Washington and Tehran Ponder Ways to Modify Nuclear Deal
March 05, 2017
By Peyman Pejman
Iran’s recent announcement of the purchase of uranium ore from Kazakhstan, and the attendance of a large Iranian delegation at the two-day conference on international nuclear cooperation, sponsored by the...
Brooding Iran Hardliners Say They Must Still be Heard After Rouhani Win
May 21, 2017
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian hardliners indignant at President Hassan Rouhani's re-election vowed on Sunday to press their conservative agenda, with some saying his caustic campaign trail attacks on their candidate...
Attackers bomb Iran parliament and mausoleum, at least 12 dead – Iranian media
June 7, 2017
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin
LONDON (Reuters) - Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked Iran's parliament and the Mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran on Wednesday morning, killing at least 12 people in a twin assault at...
Rouhani Faces Pressure to Improve Human Rights in Iran
By Babak Dehghanpisheh
May 30, 2017 BEIRUT (Reuters) – In the week before the May 19 presidential election in Iran, the eventual victor, Hassan Rouhani, criticised the judiciary and the powerful Revolutionary Guards with rhetoric rarely heard...
Arrested: Editor in Chief of Financial Daily Newspaper
May 08, 2017
Rahmatollah Jamshidi Larijani (a.k.a Iraj Jamshidi), editor in chief of financial daily Asia was arrested on Monday 8 May as he was leaving his house in Tehran.
In an exclusive interview with...
