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- 16 Dec 16, 2:49pm -

In surprise move, President Obama declines to sign legislation renewing Iran sanctions but lets it become law anyway - AP
- 15 Dec 16, 1:04am -

Iran finalizes major deal with Boeing to buy $16.6 billion worth of passenger planes - AP
- 11 Dec 16, 1:58pm -

US Senate passes 10-year extension of sanctions against Iran, 99-0; bill now goes to President Obama - @juliepercha
- 1 Dec 16, 2:22pm -

Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite group says western access to Mosul blocked, helping isolate city from all sides - Reuters
- 23 Nov 16, 8:36am -

Iran Paralympic Committee says cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad has died after Paralympics crash in C4-5 road race - BBC Sport
- 17 Sep 16, 4:21pm -

Iran's foreign ministry spokesman says Russia will stop using Iranian air base for Syria airstrikes for the time being - AP
- 22 Aug 16, 5:01am -

US State Department: $400 million cash payment to Iran was contingent on American prisoners' release - @AP
- 18 Aug 16, 3:45pm -

Prominent Iranian lawmaker confirms Russia is using Iran's Shahid Nojeh Air Base for Syria strikes - AP
- 17 Aug 16, 8:13am -

Update: Russian ministry says airstrikes launched from Iran's Hamadan airbase targeted Islamic State and former al Nusra Front in Aleppo, Idlib, Deir el-Zor provinces - Al Jazeera
- 16 Aug 16, 10:57am -

The Foreign & Commonwealth Office gave a statement following the Government of Gibraltar's decision on the Grace 1 oil tanker.
- 9 hours ago, 19 Aug 19, 5:42am -

Details of consular fees at the British Embassy in Iran.
- 15 days ago, 5 Aug 19, 12:01am -

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt gave a statement to the House of Commons following the seizure of the Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz.
- 27 days ago, 24 Jul 19, 1:26am -

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt discussed the incident with Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas.
- 29 days ago, 21 Jul 19, 5:22pm -

This page sets out our response to the situation in the Gulf after Iranian forces seized a British-flagged tanker, Stena Impero, in the Strait of Hormuz.
- 29 days ago, 21 Jul 19, 11:06am -

The UK Mission to the UN in New York's Charge d'Affaires wrote to the UN Security Council President after the British-flagged tanker Stena Impero was seized.
- 29 days ago, 21 Jul 19, 11:02am -

The Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt spoke to media after a ministerial COBR meeting on 20 July on the Iranian actions in the Strait of Hormuz.
- 30 days ago, 20 Jul 19, 2:37pm -

The governments of France, Germany, and the UK have reaffirmed their commitment to the JCPoA.
- 35 days ago, 16 Jul 19, 1:11am -

The Foreign Secretary spoke to the Chief Minister of Gibraltar and the Iranian Foreign Minister to discuss the recent detention of the Grace 1 oil tanker.
- 36 days ago, 15 Jul 19, 2:05am -

Ahead of the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels, Jeremy Hunt said he would be building on the leadership shown by the E3 to maintain the nuclear deal.
- 36 days ago, 14 Jul 19, 5:35pm -

Expand Supporters of Iran watch the Morocco vs Iran match in a fan zone in Moscow, Russia, on June 15, 2018. © 2018 Reuters (New York) – The Iran…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Girl and women ride on a bus in Tehran © Reuters A long-awaited bill that would allow the children of Iranian women married to foreign spouse…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Iranian women wearing hijab walk down a street in the capital Tehran on February 7, 2018. A spate of unprecedented protests against Iran's mandatory headscarves for women hav…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand A campaign poster showing environmental activists, Taher Ghadirian, Niloufar Bayani, Amirhossein Khaleghi, Houman Jokar, Sam Rajabi, Sepideh Kashani, Morad Tahbaz and Abdolre…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Iran’s judiciary has just confirmed the arrest of Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian anthropologist, in Tehran. Media sources had earlier reported that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested Adelkhah, a re…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Activists, Neda Naji, Marzie Amiri, Atefeh Rangriz and Anisha Assadolahi remain in detention for peaceful protest.  © Maydayarrests Telegram Channe…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks at the State Department, Thursday, June 13, 2019, in Washington.  © 2019 Alex Brandon/AP Photo On May…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Keyvan Samimi, Neda Naji, Hassan Saeedi Atefeh Rangriz, Marzieh Amiri, and Nahid Khodajoo. © Private (Beirut) - Iranian authorities are holdi…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Iranian Parliament approves an amendment to nationality law. © IRNA 2019  (Beirut) – Iran’s Parliament on May 13, 2019, approved an ame…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

Expand Mehdi Sohrabifar (blue background) and Amin Sedaghat (white background) were executed on April 25, 2019.   © Private (Beirut) - The execut…
- 31 Dec 69, 7:00pm -

A divide in the Trump administration is producing nonsensical policies, say former officials and experts.
- 12 days ago, 7 Aug 19, 6:48pm -

The move against Javad Zarif threatens the chances of diplomacy to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the Islamic Republic.
- 19 days ago, 31 Jul 19, 4:28pm -

The suit says plaintiffs have had days "filled with unbearable hardships and a constant state of distress" as they've waited to be reunited with their loved ones.
- 26 days ago, 24 Jul 19, 6:41am -

The announcement comes as Iran’s nuclear deal with world powers is unraveling.
- 28 days ago, 22 Jul 19, 7:44am -

The incident, involving two foreign ships, comes a day after Iran seized another tanker and the U.S. claimed to have downed an Iranian drone.
- 31 days ago, 19 Jul 19, 3:32pm -

It's the latest escalation in a tense standoff between Washington and Tehran.
- 32 days ago, 18 Jul 19, 5:12pm -

The report comes just days after an oil tanker based in the United Arab Emirates disappeared off trackers in Iranian territorial waters.
- 32 days ago, 18 Jul 19, 7:06am -

A deal to not share reporting from Iran on BBC Persian has angered staffers who see it as complicity with a government that imprisons, tortures and kills journalists.
- 35 days ago, 15 Jul 19, 8:19pm -

Sir Kim Darroch called Trump's actions "diplomatic vandalism," according to new cables obtained by the Daily Mail.
- 37 days ago, 14 Jul 19, 2:34am -

Tehran said Sunday that it will raise its uranium enrichment level beyond the 3.67% limit set in the 2015 nuclear deal.
- 43 days ago, 7 Jul 19, 4:50am -

By Jubin KatiraieIn the 1980s, the Iranian authorities arrested the parents of human rights activist Ehsan Qaraee and, following a fatwa by then-supreme leader Ruhollah Khomeini, murdered his father.Qaraee is now raising awareness of the 1988 mas…
- 1 hour ago, 19 Aug 19, 1:38pm -

By Pooya StoneJavaid Rehman, the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, has said that there are increased restrictions on the rights to freedom of expression, liberty, and a fair trial in Iran, in a report entitled Situation of Human Rights…
- 2 hours ago, 19 Aug 19, 1:04pm -

By Jubin KatiraieFor decades, Iranian women have been banned from entering sports stadiums because of the mullahs’ sexist laws, which have turned them into a key and visible battleground for the women of Iran against the misogynist mullahs.Now,…
- 3 days ago, 16 Aug 19, 12:32pm -

By Pooya StoneA supposedly “reformist” political analyst said in Iran said that the ‘regime’ is at complete political dead end because the Iranian people “no longer cared about reformists and principlists”.Sadegh Zibakalam, who was sp…
- 3 days ago, 16 Aug 19, 12:24pm -

By Jubin KatiraieThe United Arab Emirates said that the Tuesday visit by the Yemeni Houthis to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is yet more proof of the terror cell’s allegiance to the mullahs.UAE Minister of State for Foreign Affairs,…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 2:37pm -

By Pooya StoneFourteen workers from the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Industrial complex in Khuzestan province, Iran, stood trial on Wednesday for attending a one-hour protest on May 9, where they demanded their most basic rights, according to the independe…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 2:28pm -

By Jubin KatiraieOn Tuesday, August 13, a young Iranian Ahvazi youth named Saeed Ebadi, from the Malachi area south of Ahvaz, hanged himself from a tree because of poverty and unemployment and dropping out of school.According to other news, two y…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 1:34pm -

By Pooya StoneIn the first three months of the current Iranian year, the price of potatoes and onions has increased by more than 500 percent compared to the same period last year.Statistics on the average price of crops and the cost of agricultur…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 1:26pm -

By Jubin KatiraieAmnesty International is urging people all over the world to protest the torture of a critically ill cancer patient and political prisoner being held in Iran’s Raja’i Shahr prison.Arash Sadeghi, a human right defender, is bei…
- 5 days ago, 14 Aug 19, 4:01pm -

By Pooya StoneIran’s enriched uranium stockpile reached 370 kilograms on Tuesday, according to a statement by Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesperson of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).Speaking on the sidelines of a ceremony to mark the…
- 5 days ago, 14 Aug 19, 3:53pm -

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- 30 Nov 17, 5:18am -

Print section Print Rubric:  A pointless conflict has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis Print Headline:  The war the wo…
- 30 Nov 17, 4:18am -

Print section Print Rubric:  A humanitarian crisis brought on by war is devastating the poorest country in the Middle East Print Headline: …
- 29 Nov 17, 5:48pm -

Print section Print Rubric:  Donald Trump’s road map maybe more about countering Iran than making peace Print Headline:  The art o…
- 23 Nov 17, 10:52am -

Print section Print Headline:  The revenge of the clergy Print Fly Title:  History of Iran…
- 16 Nov 17, 10:58am -

Print section Print Rubric:  What lies behind Iran’s imprisonment of a British citizen? Print Headline:  Held to ransom…
- 16 Nov 17, 10:58am -

Main image:  AS EARTHQUAKES go, it was far from the world’s strongest, with a magnitude of 7.3. Nonetheless, it was the deadliest quake so far in 2017, killing about 400 people and…
- 13 Nov 17, 1:17pm -

Print section Print Rubric:  A Turkish town turns into a playground for repressed Iranians Print Headline:  Sin city…
- 9 Nov 17, 10:48am -

Print section Print Rubric:  Binyamin Netanyahu has some ideas Print Headline:  To fix or to nix? Print Fl…
- 9 Nov 17, 10:48am -

Print section Print Rubric:  Muhammad bin Salman has made himself the sole arbiter of Saudi policy Print Headline:  All the crown pr…
- 9 Nov 17, 10:48am -

Reported strike came after large number of Turkish forces crossed border into Idlib provinceTurkey has sent significant numbers of tanks and troops deep into Syria in an apparent bid to reinforce the town of Khan Sheikhun, where 92 people died in a 2…
- 1 hour ago, 19 Aug 19, 1:42pm -

Vessel heads to Greece after UK rejects Washington’s request to detain it furtherIran has warned the US against attempting to seize an Iranian oil tanker in open seas after its release from Gibraltar.The tanker, which has been caught in a standoff…
- 12 hours ago, 19 Aug 19, 3:12am -

Shipping data show vessel moving as territory rejects final US request to hold it longerThe Iranian supertanker at the centre of a diplomatic row between Britain and Iran left Gibraltar on Sunday night, according to shipping data.The marine traffic m…
- 19 hours ago, 18 Aug 19, 8:18pm -

A day after Gibraltar judge allows vessel’s release, US condemns ‘scheme to unlawfully access US financial system’The US justice department has issued a warrant for the seizure of the Iranian oil tanker at the centre of a weeks-long diplomatic…
- 2 days ago, 17 Aug 19, 5:42am -

Video obtained by the Guardian shows the unloading of Iranian fertiliser from a cargo ship, CS Future, at Lianyungang port in China. The fertiliser is then loaded onto another cargo ship, the Bulk Aquila, which was due to carry the product to India o…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 11:23pm -

Exclusive: shipping records and leaked video show subsidiary of multinational Incitec Pivot reloaded cargo from Iran, which is subject to stringent US sanctionsAn Australian-owned multinational is at the centre of a mysterious $15m shipment from Iran…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 11:21pm -

Seizure of Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar was welcomed by US hawks but left Britain looking vulnerableWhen Gibraltar’s authorities unexpectedly impounded the Iranian oil tanker Grace 1 in July, one member of Donald Trump’s administration was pa…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 1:50pm -

Territory says Tehran has promised oil is not for Syria – but US to contest decisionAn oil tanker at the centre of a six-week diplomatic row between Britain and Iran is to be released from Gibraltar after Tehran promised that its cargo worth $140m…
- 4 days ago, 15 Aug 19, 10:51am -

Anthropologist Kameel Ahmady being held in Tehran’s Evin prison on unknown charges, says familyA British-Iranian anthropologist who studies controversial topics such as child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) in the Islamic Republic has…
- 5 days ago, 14 Aug 19, 10:14pm -

Court in the British territory will decide fate of Grace 1, seized by UK, on ThursdayConfusion swirled over a possible breakthrough in the tanker standoff in the Middle East on Tuesday after Gibraltar scotched Iranian media reports that an Iranian ta…
- 6 days ago, 13 Aug 19, 9:46am -

Pakistan is seeking cooperation with Iran in oil and electricity sectors
- 14 Dec 16, 12:33am -

Assaluyeh is the beating heart of Iran's economy with largest oil and petrochemical sites.
- 13 Dec 16, 6:30am -

Proper processing of natural resources paves the ground for creating more job opportunities
- 13 Dec 16, 6:30am -

Facilitating banking and customs relations will boost bilateral ties between the two countries
- 13 Dec 16, 6:30am -

Afghan merchants agreed with Iranians to import part of their production line for mutual benefit
- 12 Dec 16, 12:30am -

The British leader assured the GCC that she is "clear-eyed about the threat that Iran poses to the Gulf and to the wider Middle East"
- 8 Dec 16, 5:15am -

Oil giant Shell was set to sign an initial agreement on Wednesday to develop oil and gas fields in Iran.
- 8 Dec 16, 2:05am -

Concern over Iran remains for the GCC, whose member nations have bulked up their own militaries as a deterrent
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