Tag: Iran

Chinese state-owned firms are building up their presence near the Strait of Hormuz in the Middle East, a new report says, raising the risks of a future clash with U.S. ...

Shocking images have emerged purporting to be of an emaciated physician on a hunger strike while jailed in Iran for supporting women protesting the hijab law.  Swedish-Iranian Dr. Farhad Meysami, ...

Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has gone on hunger strike to protest his ongoing detention at Iran’s notoriously harsh Evin prison, even though his sentence has been declared void by ...

President Joe Biden and his aides are making nice with Israel’s new far-right government — and they’re doing it in a highly public fashion. The choice to engage the coalition ...

Iran’s impoverished province of Baluchistan has been disproportionately hit by protests since September. It has paid an exorbitant price in terms of deaths, casualties, and arrests in the crackdown against ...

The seven were “truck drivers and their assistants, all of them non-Syrians“, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, adding that they were “killed as a result of unidentified aircraft ...

Drones attacked an Iranian defense factory in the central city of Isfahan overnight, the state-run IRNA news agency reported early Sunday. It carried a Defense Ministry statement saying the attack ...

Guest speakers on Russian state TV recently discussed how Iran, North Korea, and Cuba survived international sanctions, debating whether or not the Russian economy is now “equal” to that of ...

01:55 The detainees have been described as “hostages” by the French government, which confirmed in November that seven French nationals were being held. Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah was arrested in ...

On Sept. 16, 2022, a young Kurdish Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini died after being arrested by Iran’s morality police for allegedly wearing her hijab incorrectly. Protests have rocked the ...