Three more Iranians have died from the coronavirus over the past 24 hours bringing the total deaths to 144,637, Iran’s Health Ministry said on Saturday. 39 new cases of infection with COVID-19 were found over the past 24 hours, 25 of whom were hospitalized, it added. The Iranian Health Ministry […]
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Iran Executes Four Thugs Convicted Of Spying For Israel’s Mossad
The four individuals, arrested months earlier, were sentenced to death in late November for collaboration with Israel’s Mossad spy agency. Mizan Online, a news agency affiliated with the Iranian Judiciary, reported that the convicts — identified as Hossein Ordoukhanzadeh, Shahin Imani Mahmoudabadi, Milad Ashrafi and Manouchehr Shahbandi — were hanged […]
Sanctioned Iran maintains its base in Balkans with Serbia
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and First Vice-President of the Government of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said today that the bilateral relations between Serbia and Iran are at a high level, stressing that Serbia is grateful to Iran for not recognizing the self-proclaimed independence of Kosovo, as well as for its […]
Iran Suspends Morality Police That Sparked Massive Protests
The operations of Iran’s “morality police” have effectively been suspended, a top official said, after months of widespread anti-government protests over the death of a young woman in its custody. Officially called the Guidance Patrol, the police unit has for years stalked major intersections and thoroughfares in Iranian cities, arresting […]
Iran Interior Minister: Rioters Can’t Have Representative At Fact-finding Body
Asked by the reporters on the framework of the committee, Vahidi said on Sunday the body exclusively deals with the riots, the root causes and the main players, and that it has no political nature. “Therefore, the institutions who have a role to play in [these tasks] will be involved,” […]
McManus: Iran protests upstage nuclear issue — temporarily
WASHINGTON — After more than a decade of U.S. policy focused on preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, arms negotiations have been shoved off center stage. The long-running dispute over nuclear weapons has been displaced by a more immediate drama — the rapidly spreading uprising against the Iranian regime. “Our focus […]
The US Men’s Soccer Team Beat Iran On Tuesday, But Iranian Players Deserve All The Credit
In the past, I found it easy to root against the imperialist teams, but that calculus gets complicated the more those teams change. Paris-born star Kylian Mbappé is the son of a Cameroonian father and a mother of Algerian descent. Canada’s Alphonso Davies was born in a refugee camp in […]
Top Iran Military Commander: Persian Gulf Enjoys Full Security
Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri said the Persian Gulf region enjoys complete safety. He added the presence of foreign naval forces in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz has diminished remarkably with the Iranian military units projecting power across the […]
Deputy FM In Moscow: Iran, Russia Designed Mechanisms For Closer Ties
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani praises growing ties with Russia on the regional stage, saying Tehran and Moscow reached an agreement on new mechanisms and formats to further deepen their relations during recent talks Speaking to reporters, Bagheri Kani explained the agenda of his visit to Moscow and […]
Iran morality police status unclear after ‘closure’ comment
CAIRO (AP) — An Iranian lawmaker said Sunday that Iran’s government is “paying attention to the people’s real demands,” state media reported, a day after a top official suggested that the country’s morality police whose conduct helped trigger months of protests has been shut down. The role of the morality […]
Crackdown in Kurdish region of Iran hits home for Port Moody, B.C. woman
A Port Moody, B.C., woman is residing a nightmare as she watches a federal government crackdown in her previous hometown in Iran. Video has started to arise exhibiting the Iranian govt has brought in tanks to crush protests in the Kurdish city of Sanandaj in the country’s west. Read through […]
Iran urges UN Security Council to reject U.S. bullying
TEHRAN – Majid Takht-Ravanchi, Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, has said that the UN Security Council should reject the United States’ bullying and unilateralism. “At the #UNSC, the US is actively resorting to Iran-phobia & coercion to gain support for its unlawful anti-2231 resolution, illegally seeking to extend an […]