Iraqi Shi’ite Paramilitaries Take Baaj Town West of Mosul from Islamic State -army
June 4, 2017
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Shi'ite paramilitaries have captured the Iraqi town of Baaj from Islamic State, further shrinking the northern region under jihadist control as part of a U.S.-backed campaign to retake the...
Marjane Satrapi Releases ‘Radioactive,’ Biopic of Marie Curie
By Nazanine Nouri
The Iranian-born, Oscar-nominated director Marjane Satrapi has a new movie out. “Radioactive” is the story of the scientist Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize, and the only woman...
Government and Majlis at Odds with IRGC and Basij over Bill to Join UN...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Two months after the government of President Hassan Rouhani introduced a bill to Majlis calling for Iran to sign and ratify the UN Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in...
Iran Russia Relations Under Question Mark
February 15, 2017
By Peyman Pejman
President Donald Trump has not put forward too many concrete foreign policy principles since taking office last month but one of the more consistent convictions as a candidate was his...
Exclusive: IRGC Casualties in Syria
November 02, 2016
Informed sources in Tehran have revealed to Kayhan-London that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the regular army, and the Fatemiyoun and Zeynab Brigades (comprising Afghan Shia militias protecting the holy shrines) have...
Supreme Court Gives Trump More Time to File Travel Ban Briefs
June 13, 2017
By Lawrence Hurley
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration more time to file papers responding to an appeals court ruling that upheld a block on a...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Warns Against Disrupting Presidential Vote
May 10, 2017
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned on Wednesday that any attempts to disrupt the presidential election on May 19 would be dealt with harshly.
The vote has shaped up...
Trump to resume precision munitions deliveries to Saudis -officials
June 13, 2017
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration notified Congress last week that it soon planned to begin delivering precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia under a 2015 weapons deal, congressional officials said on Tuesday.
The...
Qods Force Resumes Operations in Europe and the USA
November 05, 2016
On 26 October 2016, at a gathering in Hamedan province, Commander Salar Abnoush, deputy coordinator of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Khatam-al-Anbiya Garrison (the engineering wing of IRGC) said: “ Defending the...
Kremlin says Iran attack shows needs to unite against terrorism
June 7, 2017
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that an attack on two targets in Tehran by armed men underlined the need for countries to pool their efforts to fight against terrorism,...
