Saudi guards fire on Iranian boat, killing fisherman – report
June 17, 2017
DUBAI (Reuters) - Saudi border guards have opened fire on an Iranian fishing boat in the Gulf, killing a fisherman, Iran's Tasnim news agency said on Saturday, amid high tension between the two rival...
Empress Farah Republishes Pre-Revolution Memoirs, Discusses Them in Harvard Interview
By Nazanine Nouri
“1001 Days: Memoirs of an Empress” is the title of a memoir that Empress Farah Pahlavi wrote in 1976, three years before the Islamic Revolution. It was published in French in 1978,...
Women Drivers With Improper Hijab to Receive Police SMS Warnings
November 9, 2017
Police in Tehran have started to use mobile phone text messaging to warn women drivers who violate the mandatory hijab dress code, said the Tehran Prosecutor General, Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi.
“The experiment by...
After Warnings, U.S. Wages New Strike on Pro-Syria Government Forces
June 6, 2017
By Phil Stewart
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States launched an air strike on Tuesday against Iranian-backed fighters who it said posed a threat to U.S. and U.S.-backed forces in southern Syria, in...
Regime Secrets Exposed: Rivalry Between IRGC and Intelligence Ministry Resignation of Ali Jannati, former...
November 04, 2016
Soon after Ali Jannati resigned his post as minister of culture and Islamic guidance, rumours about the cause of his sudden departure began to circulate.
The Friday prayer Imam of Jiroft in Kerman...
Iran Condemns UK Attack, Criticises Western Security Ties to Gulf
May 23, 2017
LONDON (Reuters) - Iran condemned a suicide attack at a pop concert in Manchester that killed 22 people, but in an apparent swipe at Western security cooperation with Gulf Arab states said "artificial...
In Blow to Trump, U.S. Appeals Court Refuses to Reinstate Travel Ban
May 25, 2017
By Mica Rosenberg and Dan Levine
(Reuters) - In a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump, a U.S. appeals court refused on Thursday to reinstate his travel ban on people from six Muslim-majority...
Iran Guards Look Beyond Election to Next Supreme Leader
May 09, 2017
By Babak Dehghanpisheh
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Determined to protect a dominant security role and vast economic interests,Iran's Revolutionary Guards military force is quietly backing a hardliner in May 19 presidential polls, with an...
Iranian Lawyer: Semitic Religions Demean Women
December 11, 2016
By Katayoon Halajan
Giti Pourfazel is a lawyer, poet, writer, and researcher specialising in Iranian history and culture. She was born in Tehran to a family whose passion for Iranian culture and heritage...
Gulf Arab Row Rattles Trump’s Anti-Iran Axis
May 31, 2017
By Sylvia Westall and Tom Finn
DUBAI/DOHA (Reuters) - Just 10 days after President Donald Trump called on Muslim countries to stand united against Iran, a public feud between Qatar and some of...
