Friday, July 11, 2025

Revolutionary Arson 19th August 1978: 470 Burnt Alive

August 19, 2017 ‌By Potkin Azarmehr Thirty-nine years ago today, 470 innocent people were burned alive inside the movie theatre in southwest Iran.  The movie theatre on the first floor of a shopping arcade. Victims included...

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...

Turkey’s Erdogan Approves Troop Deployment to Qatar

June 9, 2017 By Daren Butler ISTANBUL(Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan has approved legislation on deploying Turkish troops in Qatar, signalling support for the Gulf state as it faces isolation imposed by fellow Arab states over...

EXCLUSIVE- Draft IAEA Resolution on Ukraine Condemns Russian Invasion

By Francois Murphy VIENNA, March 1 (Reuters) - A draft resolution being prepared for Wednesday's emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a move that might anger Moscow while it works...

Iran-backed Iraqi Force Fight Islamic State Militants Towards Syrian Border

May 31, 2017 IRAQI-SYRIAN BORDER (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi'ite force backed by Iran said on Wednesday (May 31) it continued its advance towards the Iraqi-Syrian border. The Popular Mobilisation force (Hashd al-Shaabi) said it pushed Islamic State...

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...

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...

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...

U.S. visas issued to citizens of Trump travel ban nations continue to decline

May 25, 2017 By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States issued about 50 percent fewer visitor visas in April to citizens of seven countries covered by President Donald Trump's temporary travel bans than it...

Trump Says Concerns About Iran Driving Israel, Arab States Closer

By Steve Holland and Jeff Mason May 22, 2017 JERUSALEM (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday that shared concern about Iran was driving Israel and many Arab states closer and demanded that...