The Week in Review: April.26th – May.3rd
By Natasha Phillips
MAY 3 - Iranian oil sanctions waivers were stopped by U.S. President Donald Trump this week as part of his Maximum Pressure Campaign against Iran. Iran relies heavily on oil exports to...
The Week in Review: April.19th – April.26th
By Natasha Phillips
APR. 26 - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif hinted at the possibility of releasing detained dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe after suggesting a prisoner swap with the U.S. this week. The British-Iranian...
The Week in Review: April.12th – April.19th
By Natasha Phillips
APRIL. 19 - The U.S. State Department’s designation of the IRGC as a terrorist organization took effect this week. The Iranian government responded with a reciprocal designation for the U.S. global military...
The Week in Review: April.5th – April.12th
By Natasha Phillips
APR.12 - London-based Standard Chartered bank has been ordered to pay out more than $1 billion in penalties and fines for facilitating business with Iran, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The bank’s employees...
The Week in Review: March.29th – April.5th
By Natasha Phillips
APR.5 - Intelligence reports suggesting that Golestan province's forests are being made available for corporations to do as they please with surfaced on Twitter this week, sparking outrage among ecology experts and Iran’s social...
The Week in Review: March.22nd – March.29th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.29 - Devastating floods in Iran have left at least 44 people dead and several hundred injured according to the latest reports from Iranian media, with no signs of the floods stopping...
The Week in Review: March.15th- March.22nd
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.22 - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo received a warning this week from Israel that Iran-backed Hezbollah could be winding down its activities in Syria in order to focus on a...
The Week in Review: March.8th- March.15th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.15 - Human rights lawyer and women’s rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes for campaigning against mandatory hijab laws in Iran. A day after...
The Week in Review: March.1st- March.8th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.8 - Prominent lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh was convicted of national security crimes this week, reports the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI). A journalist who says they...
The Week in Review: Feb.22nd Feb.28th
By Natasha Phillips
MAR.1 - A motion to impeach President Hassan Rouhani was actioned by conservative lawmakers in Iran this week. Meanwhile, Rouhani unveiled new legal proposals that would see the Supreme Leader’s charitable organizations taxed for the...
