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Two Men Sentenced to 25 Years over Iran-Backed Plot to Kill...

October 29, 2025

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PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The EU and 26 countries

PARIS, Aug 12 (Reuters) – The EU and 26 countries condemned Iran‘s executions of protesters in a joint statement, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said on Wednesday.

The countries called on Iran to listen to its people, take meaningful steps toward ensuring respect for human rights, immediately end use of the death penalty and release those arbitrarily detained.

(Reporting by ELizabeth Pineau; Writing by Inti Landauro; Editing by Makini Brice)

By Nilo Tabrizy LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Acclaim

By Nilo Tabrizy
LONDON, Aug 12 (Reuters) – Acclaimed Iranian photojournalist Yalda Moaiery has spent much of her career documenting moments of dissent and the lives of women in Iran. The work has repeatedly brought her into conflict with the authorities, and on Iran‘s National Journalist Day on Saturday she learned she had been sentenced to 15 years in prison.

The sentence was handed down under a law enacted after a 12-day war between Israel and Iran in 2025, legislation that Iranian authorities say is intended to combat espionage and cooperation with hostile states.

When Moaiery arrived at Tehran’s Revolutionary Court, she was not given formal case documents, she said. Instead, a friend accompanying her copied details from a charge sheet by hand. Rights groups say such procedures reflect a lack of transparency in Iran‘s judicial system.

According to the handwritten notes reviewed by Reuters, the accusations against her include giving interviews to media outlets deemed hostile by the authorities and providing photographs to organisations linked to the U.S. and Israel. Reuters could not independently verify the contents of the charge sheet.

In a statement provided to Reuters, Moaiery said the intelligence wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps raided her home during anti-government protests in January and confiscated her phone, laptop and other electronic equipment. She said IRGC officers returned after the U.S. launched air strikes on Iran this year and again seized her belongings.

“On this occasion, they took everything, including even the cameras I had owned since childhood,” she said.

“I was subjected to several interrogations, and eventually my case was referred to Branch 33 of the Security Prosecutor’s Office and subsequently to the Revolutionary Court.”

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@yaldamoaiery #yaldamoaiery

By Nazanine Nouri Aug. 11 - The Belgian-Iranian so

By Nazanine Nouri
Aug. 11 - The Belgian-Iranian sociologist Firouzeh Nahavandi, Professor Emerita of Sociology at Belgium’s ULB University (Université Libre de Bruxelles), has been granted the title of Baroness by King Philippe of Belgium.

The title was conferred on the occasion of the Belgian National Day honors on July 21st in recognition of her distinguished academic career and her contributions to the study of the Muslim world, international development, and the status of women.

It was a surprise announcement which the Royal Palace made over the telephone a few days earlier, Nahavandi explained. In a July 21 interview with the Belgian channel RTBF, Nahavandi said she viewed this honor as recognizing a lifetime of academic work.

“I have conducted research, taught and written extensively, and I continue to do so,” she said. “This is recognition of the transmission of knowledge. For me, that is the most important aspect of everything I’ve done.”

Nahavandi is the author of several books on the Iranian Revolution and on the women of Iran (published in French).

She is also a frequent commentator in the French-speaking media on Iranian politics, the Middle East, Islam, women’s rights and international development.

In a June interview with the Qualita news outlet, she offered insights into what the war with the U.S. and Israel represented for the Islamic Republic.

“This war is also a question of survival for the regime, especially because domestically, the regime has not managed to control the population — despite the fact that the repression is very severe, that people are hanged every day, that arrests are continuing, and that a student rebellion is beginning to take shape,” she said. “The regime is unable to control the situation domestically. So it is determined not to lose face internationally.”

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WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. military o

WASHINGTON, Aug 11 (Reuters) – The U.S. military on Tuesday said it had used missiles to disable the steering gear of a Panama-flagged cargo ship which ignored repeated warnings to stop violating a naval blockade on Iranian ports.

A U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into the Vela Nova’s engine room, the Central Command added.

“As of Aug. 11, CENTCOM has redirected 55 commercial vessels attempting to run the blockade, disabled 3 non-compliant vessels, and boarded 2,” it said in a statement.

(Reporting by Bhargav Acharya and Jasper Ward)

Aug 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump acc

Aug 11 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump accused Iran of being “devious negotiators” in an interview released late on Monday and described some of his current options in the war — “just bop along” and let Tehran fail economically or hit them “really, really hard.”

“I’m sort of negotiating,” Trump told Real America’s Voice in a phone interview. “They’re very devious negotiators.”

Since the conflict began in late February, Trump has repeatedly oscillated between threats of escalation and claims that a peace deal is imminent. Pakistan said on Tuesday the U.S. and Iran were close to “some sort” of deal, and Qatar said talks on managing the Strait of Hormuz were at an advanced stage, despite reports of new attacks on shipping in regional waters.

Trump described one of his possible strategies as: “Do what I’m doing now: just bop along and look how bad they’re doing.”

“Economically, they are a mess. They can’t borrow money. We control their money, what they had, which is a lot. They had a lot, and we have total control of it. I’m their banker,” he said, referring to frozen Iranian assets.

Another option would be to “Hit them really, really hard,” Trump said.

Trump also shrugged off concerns of low munitions, saying the U.S. was “building them like crazy” and cast blame on his predecessor, former U.S. President Joe Biden.

By Kayhan Life Staff August 11 - The Iranian econo

By Kayhan Life Staff
August 11 - The Iranian economy is in a critical state: triple-digit food inflation, a collapsing currency and mass unemployment have pushed millions more people below the poverty line.

That’s the shocking picture laid out by economists and researchers in recent reports published in the Iranian media.

In an Aug. 9 article published in the Iranian newspaper Donya-e Eghtesad, the economist Massoud Nili compiled economic statistics and indicators illustrating how the structural crisis in the Islamic Republic has placed the economy under pressure from all sides.

The article notes that the exchange rate has soared 50-fold since the beginning of 2018. Over comparable periods in the past, it increased fourfold.

This 50-fold increase did not occur in a consistent manner, but over seven major currency crises which, like powerful earthquakes, shook Iran’s economy and left extensive damage in their wake.

Prices have increased 19-fold over the period, compared to other periods in the recent past, when they surged 3.5 to 3.8 times. Food prices have surged even more sharply, multiplying more than 34 times between 2018 and the present, compared with approximately fourfold increases during similar periods in the past.

Gross domestic product (GDP), which would normally increase roughly 1.5 times over eight-year periods, has shown very little growth since 2018. Over the same period, per-capita net national income has declined by approximately 12 percent.

Statistics also show that between 2018 and 2024, approximately 16 million more people were reported to be living below the poverty line. This increase has no precedent in earlier periods in the recent past.

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