INTERNATIONAL Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said on Monday that his country is ready to resume relations with Saudi Arabia “when Riyadh is willing to”, reports Anadolu Agency. “Tehran is ready to resume diplomatic ties with Riyadh, reopen embassies,” Amir-Abdollahian told the Tehran Dialogue Forum. The top Iranian diplomat said he[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran‘s currency has weakened to record lows against the US dollar, as general strikes and popular protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody continue to paralyse the country. The rial dropped to 384,000 against the US dollar earlier this week, an almost 50-percent decline in 15 months. It[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran was ousted from a United Nations women’s body on Wednesday for policies contrary to the rights of women and girls, a move proposed by the United States after Tehran’s brutal crackdown on protests sparked by the death of a young woman in custody. The 54-member U.N. Economic and[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran has slapped 400 protesters in the capital Tehran with jail terms in connection with mass demonstrations over the death of a young woman in police custody, according to the city’s prosecutor-general on Tuesday, reports Anadolu Agency. “In hearings on cases of rioters in Tehran, 160 people were sentenced to[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran carried out the death penalty against an anti-government protester on Monday in the second execution since the protest movement began three months ago. According to a statement by the Iranian judiciary, Majidreza Rahnavard, 23, had been sentenced to death by a court in Mashhad city after allegedly attacking security forces[…]
INTERNATIONAL Tehran, Iran – Iran has imposed new sanctions on individuals and entities in the European Union and the United Kingdom in response to their human rights sanctions and comments on the country’s ongoing protests. The Iranian foreign ministry on Monday announced sanctions on nine entities and 23 individuals, including media[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iran says it has executed the first prisoner known to be convicted for an alleged crime stemming from ongoing nationwide protests. The person was convicted of injuring a security guard with a long knife and closing off a Tehran street, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday. Tasnim[…]
INTERNATIONAL Iranian authorities yesterday executed four persons who were accused of working for the Israeli foreign intelligence service, the Mossad. Local Iranian media reported that the Revolutionary Guards and the Ministry of Intelligence had arrested members of a cell that was “stealing and destroying private and public property,” kidnapping and[…]
INTERNATIONAL The UN’s top human rights body voted on Thursday to set up an independent investigation into Iran’s deadly repression of protests following the death of Mahsa Amini. The motion presented to the UN Human Rights Council passed with 25 in favour, six against and 16 abstentions. Volker Turk, commissioner of the[…]
INTERNATIONAL Security forces shot dead at least three people in Iran‘s Kurdistan province on Saturday as protests continue over the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini, according to a rights group. Government forces “opened fire on protesters in the town of Divandarreh, killing at least three civilians”, Hengaw Organisation for Human Rights,[…]
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