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Iran’s Khamenei Says Next President Should be Less Engaged with West

April 26, 2017 LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency, further distancing himself from Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening to the West and seeking...

Iran’s Broken Banking System

April 29, 2017 By Mehdi Dehghan The Iranian state-run radio and TV (IRIB) is flooded with bank commercials offering attractive interest rates, lines of credit and services that do not accurately reflect the country’s alarming economic...

Parastou Forouhar Remembers Her Parents, 19 Years After Their Murder

By Parastou Forouhar November 14, 2017 November 22 will mark the 19th anniversary of the death of Dariush Forouhar, leader of the Nation Party of Iran, and his wife Parvaneh Eskandari Forouhar. They were killed...

OPINION: The Road to Middle East Security Goes Through Tehran

By Elahe Boghrat   In the past, the world always expected the Islamic Republic to lash out politically or to respond violently any time it experienced domestic problems or international pressures or felt threatened by genuine...

Iran Fails to Attract Foreign Tourists

February 15, 2017 By Roshanak Asteraki A record number of 21 countries and 381 Iranian companies participated in the tenth Tehran International Tourism Exhibition (T.I.T.E), held at the capital’s International Permanent Fairground, from 6 to 9...

Iran coal mine explosion kills 35

May 04, 2017 An explosion in a coal mine in northern Iran on Wednesday killed at least 35 workers and injured scores, state media reported. The blast occurred at 12:45 p.m. local time (0815 GMT) in...

Iran Elections and the UNESCO Affair

May 13, 2017 By Potkin Azarmehr The Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is not pleased with his Supreme Council of the Cultural Revolution (SCCR). In a speech marking national teachers' week, he admonished the SCCR for having...

Women Sleeping in Cardboard Boxes to be Sterilised

Tuesday, September 27, 2016 A proposal calling for the compulsory sterilisation of homeless women with drug addiction was introduced last year. The idea received negative reactions from the women’s rights activists and the Ministry of...

Iran and China conduct naval drill in Gulf

June 18, 2017 BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran and China began a joint naval exercise in the (Persian) Gulf on Sunday, the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported. The military drill comes at a time of heightened tension between the Iranian...

U.S. Judge Asks if Turkish Gold Trader’s Lawyers Work for Iran

May 02, 2017 By Brendan Pierson NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Monday said he wanted to know whether Iran employs any lawyers for a wealthy Turkish gold trader accused of helping that country...