A prominent Iranian women’s rights activist has sparked heated debate online after she condemned Western women who wear the hijab when they visit Iran and slammed them for supporting a “discriminatory law.” Masih Alinejad, who is the founder of the White Wednesdays movement, which encourages Iranian women to remove their[…]
OPINION by CJ Werleman The Middle East is being reshaped by ever-more-repressive forms of authoritarianism, as the guiding hand of the US not only promises further victimisation of minorities and pro-democracy forces, but also the unleashing and empowerment of violent insurgency groups. To understand the Middle East, or even the[…]
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has submitted his , announcing the decision in a brief Instagram post. “Many thanks for the generosity of the dear and brave people of Iran and its authorities over the past 67 months,” he wrote on his Instagram page jzarif_ir, according to a Reuters[…]
The US is rushing to transfer sensitive nuclear power technology to Saudi Arabia, according to a new congressional report. A Democratic-led House panel has launched an inquiry over concerns about the White House plan to build nuclear reactors across the kingdom. Whistleblowers told the panel it could destabilise the Middle[…]
The last rebel-held enclave was meant to be a safe zone for three million displaced Syrians who fled government-controlled areas fearing arrest, torture or both. But similar crimes are happening in Idlib province – although to a lesser extent than they have been committed in government-controlled territory – as well as in[…]
Twenty-seven members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard were killed in a suicide attack in the southeast of the country on Wednesday. At least 10 members of the Guard were also wounded in the suicide car-bomb attack, which targeted a bus transporting the security force, Iran’s Fars news reported. “This incident[…]
Benjamin Netanyahu has employed harsh rhetoric against Iran for years, but he went a step further on Wednesday, saying that Arab countries participating in a Middle East conference in Warsaw “are sitting down together with Israel in order to advance the common interest of war with Iran”. The Israeli prime[…]
Iran has warned Israel of a “firm and appropriate” response if it continued attacking targets in Syria, where Tehran has backed President Bashar al-Assad and his forces in their nearly eight-year war against rebels and ISIL fighters. Israel, which views Iran as its biggest security threat, has repeatedly attacked Iranian[…]
The European Union has reiterated its continued support for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, while citing concerns about the country’s ballistic missile programme and regional activities. In a series of resolutions adopted on Monday, the European Commission, the EU’s governing body, said it was disappointed at the United States’ decision[…]
On a foggy Thursday morning on February 1, 1979, a chartered Air France flight from Paris roared through Mehrabad airport near central Tehran, carrying Iran’s most revered spiritual figure. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, an outspoken critic of Iran’s ruler Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, was coming home after 14 years in exile[…]
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