The United Arab Emirates cancelled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned visit in January due to concerns his conduct during the visit could increase regional tensions with Iran, the Walla new site reports, citing three Israeli officials with knowledge of the matter, the Times of Israel reported. According to the report, the Prime Minister’s[…]
A Spanish woman imprisoned in Iran since November on espionage charges after she was arrested during anti-government protests in November has been released, the Spanish Foreign Minister said on Sunday, Reuters reports. An activist who works for a human rights NGO, 24-year-old Ana Baneira Suarez was detained in Iran during nationwide protests[…]
Tehran, Iran – Iran has blamed the United States for failing to reach an agreement over a prisoner swap deal amid reports that progress had been made after a lull of several months. Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanani on Monday told journalists that a deal was on the verge of[…]
Germany, on Wednesday, reiterated that the main objective is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, as talks over reviving the 2015 nuclear deal remain stalled, Anadolu News Agency reports. “Our goal in the entire game … is, and remains, to prevent Iran from being nuclear-armed, and we do not want a nuclear weapons[…]
French naval forces have seized thousands of assault rifles and other arms in the Gulf of Oman originating in Iran, in the latest Iranian arms shipment to be intercepted on its way to Tehran’s Houthi allies in Yemen. The seizure, which took place on 15 January, was described by the[…]
Amnesty International has warned that many young Iranians, including teenagers, detained over their participation in anti-government protests, are at risk of execution and have been tortured, Bloomberg reported yesterday. The London-based rights watchdog urged Iran to immediately overturn the death sentences issued against three demonstrators aged 18, 19 and 31, after court[…]
A group of female political prisoners in Iran have signed a petition calling for an end to the execution of protesters in the country. Thirty women political prisoners, including Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah and Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, wrote that they had “come together to[…]
Tehran, Iran – Iran has executed a former deputy defence minister on allegations of spying for the United Kingdom. The judiciary’s official news outlet confirmed on Saturday morning that Alireza Akbari, a British-Iranian dual national, was hanged after being convicted of “corruption on Earth” and acting against national security by spying for British[…]
A top Ukrainian official and presidential aide has called for the “liquidation” of Iranian factories producing missiles and drones, along with other measures to be taken against them and their suppliers. In a Twitter post today, Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak stated that Iran “blatantly humiliates the institution of international[…]
Anti-government demonstrations took place after Friday prayers in the Sistan and Baluchestan province, southeast of the country. Scenes posted on social media showed a demonstration starting from the Makki Mosque after Friday prayers in the city of Zahedan, the capital of the province, and turned into a mass march, during[…]
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