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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 -

One year after the downing of this flight, the Group expressed their condolences to the families who lost loved ones, and commitment to holding those responsible to account.
- 10 days ago, 8 Jan 21, 6:53am -

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council briefing on non-proliferation
- 26 days ago, 22 Dec 20, 1:04pm -

This joint ministerial statement on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) was been agreed, following the ministerial meeting on 21 December 2020.
- 28 days ago, 21 Dec 20, 6:23am -

The governments of France, Germany and the UK respond to Iranian plans to expand its nuclear programme and restrict IAEA monitoring access.
- 42 days ago, 7 Dec 20, 10:32am -

Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon gave an interim statement on the human rights situation in the FCO’s 30 human rights priority countries for January to June 2020.
- 59 days ago, 20 Nov 20, 4:12am -

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said Iran's decision to begin a new case against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is "appalling".
- 77 days ago, 2 Nov 20, 8:23am -

This factsheet provides key economic and development data for Iran.
- 77 days ago, 2 Nov 20, 1:04am -

Hamid Baeidinejad was summoned following news that British-Iranian dual national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to be recalled to court in Iran.
- 80 days ago, 29 Oct 20, 3:01pm -

Statement by Ambassador Jonathan Allen, UK Chargé d’Affaires to the UN, at the Security Council debate on security in the Gulf region
- 89 days ago, 20 Oct 20, 2:43pm -

Statement by the United Kingdom, France and Germany on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA) with Iran.
- 20 Sep 20, 1:00am -

Click to expand Image Sri Lankan municipal cemetery workers carry the coffin of a Covid-19 virus victim for cremation in Colombo, Sri Lanka, December 21, 2020. …
- 8 hours ago, 18 Jan 21, 8:00am -

Click to expand Image Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Ramat Gan, Israel on January 9, 2021.…
- 24 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 12:00am -

Click to expand Image People work amidst massive piles of cotton in China's Xinjiang province.  The United Kingdom and Canada made co…
- 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 12:00am -

Click to expand Image The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. © 2009 Reuters On January 14, the European Cou…
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 2:51pm -

Click to expand Image Demonstrators stopped by gendarmes and police in Bafang, West Cameroon, on September 22, 2020. © 2020 Private…
- 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 8:11am -

Click to expand Image People hold signs to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's executive order to detain children crossing the southern U.S. border and…
- 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 7:11am -

Click to expand Image The Intersex flag.  The child rights agency for India’s capital city this week recommended a ban on medicall…
- 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 2:00pm -

Click to expand Image European Union flags are waving in front of the headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels. August 5, 2020. ©…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:38am -

Click to expand Image Members of civil society groups take part in a rally to condemn a recent gang rape of a woman on a highway, Karachi, Pakistan, September 12,…
- 4 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 5:44pm -

Click to expand Image Security personnel patrol an accommodation block where Bangladeshi migrant workers are being quarantined after Covid-19 cases were found in…
- 4 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 5:36pm -

The decision serves as pressure ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, who has said he is willing to re-enter the Iran nuclear deal.
- 14 days ago, 4 Jan 21, 5:58am -

Any work at the Fordo facility likely will trigger new concern in the waning days of the Trump administration.
- 31 days ago, 18 Dec 20, 4:02am -

Iran's defense minister vowed to continue Mohsen Fakhrizadeh’s work “with more speed and more power.”
- 49 days ago, 30 Nov 20, 6:58am -

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said there would be a "definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it."
- 50 days ago, 28 Nov 20, 1:00pm -

The president seemed to drop the idea after top advisers warned that military action may ignite a broader conflict.
- 62 days ago, 17 Nov 20, 11:10am -

The outgoing president is purging agencies to expand his influence, and Biden's team can do little to limit Trump's behavior toward Iran, Afghanistan and more.
- 67 days ago, 11 Nov 20, 2:04pm -

National security officials held a last-minute press conference to warn about foreign interference in the 2020 election.
- 88 days ago, 21 Oct 20, 7:44pm -

Navid Afkari was accused of killing a man at a protest against the country's Shiite theocracy in 2018.
- 12 Sep 20, 4:17pm -

Jahane Sanat had published an interview with an epidemiologist who said Iran's official COVID-19 figures account for only 5% of the real toll.
- 10 Aug 20, 8:34am -

Iranian officials had downplayed the fire, which could set back the country's development of advanced centrifuge models.
- 6 Jul 20, 5:02am -

Many Iranians in Khuzestan province have contracted Hepatitis A after drinking water contaminated with sewage due to recent floods and authorities’ mismanagement. Mohammad Reza Izadi, the head of the Ahvaz City Council Investigation, Supervision an…
- 15 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 8:48am -

In Iran, media outlets controlled by the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei try to justify the government’s refusal to purchase Covid-19 vaccines. For instance, on January 14, Asr-e Iran daily quoted a letter signed by ‘2,500 physicians’ as explaining…
- 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 3:20pm -

Upon releasing their latest model, called ‘Tara’, in late December, Iran’s largest car manufacturing company, Iran Khodro (IKCO), came to discover that the car would not start when it was unveiled for the first time in late December 2020. This…
- 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 12:48pm -

Iran’s unsanitary and overcrowded prisons were a vector for infections long before the Covid-19 outbreak, so everybody could plainly see that they were going to become disease epicenters through 2020 and likely 2021. However, the authorities did no…
- 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:02pm -

While the Iranian government has been surrounded by enormous crises and dilemmas inside the country and abroad, officials inevitably make damning confessions. In recent days, officials from both factions of the establishment have admitted to massive…
- 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 6:19am -

On January 13, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) designated two key entities of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s economic empire, their leaders and subsidiaries. These economic conglomerates in…
- 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 3:34pm -

While international law bans corporal punishment, like flogging and amputation, branding them as torture, it’s commonly used in Iran and is just one of the reasons that the United Nations has condemned the Iranian government 67 times. In 2020, at l…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 6:10am -

The Iranian economy is shrinking and showing negative growth, according to statistics from the latest World Bank report. They wrote that the Iranian economy has shrunk by 16.5 percent over three years, which means that the already deprived populace o…
- 4 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 2:23pm -

In coordination with a ‘military institution’ in Iran, the Chinese use Iran’s low-price electricity to extract bitcoin while many Iranians suffer from power outages. While power outages have swept many Iranian urban and rural areas, reports ind…
- 5 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 11:04am -

Iran seized a South Korean-flagged tanker in the Strait of Hormuz on January 4, something they tried to blame on the tanker polluting Iranian waters. However, many suspected that the government was attempting to use the tanker and its crew as bargain…
- 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 5:29pm -

Print section Print Rubric:  Neglect and confusion aggravate the problems of the Arab world Print Headline:  Donald Trump’s Muddle…
- 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 -

The secretary of state has laid political booby traps for Biden in a diplomatic onslaught – with the aim of winning the White HouseWhile all eyes are on Donald Trump and his Capitol Hill mob, a would-be heir and successor is running riot all by him…
- 20 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 4:15am -

Britain, France and Germany say Tehran has ‘no credible civilian use’ for fuel that it previously pledged not to produceEuropean powers have voiced deep concern over Iran’s plans to produce uranium metal, warning that Tehran has “no credible…
- 1 day ago, 16 Jan 21, 9:43pm -

Mike Pompeo’s designation of Houthis as foreign terror group will block food and other aid, senior humanitarian saysThe US designation of the Houthi movement in Yemen as a terrorist organisation is likely to lead to a famine on a scale not seen for…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 11:42am -

Trump’s foreign policy chief has pursued confrontation with Iran and other perceived enemies, but his efforts to disrupt diplomacy will end in failure The finale of Mike Pompeo’s reign at the state department has been as controversial and clamoro…
- 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:27am -

Move seems designed to restrict Biden administration’s options as secretary of state confirms killing of al-Qaida leader in AugustThe US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, has claimed, without providing evidence, that al-Qaida leaders have establishe…
- 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 1:36pm -

Analysis: new president will face threats on multiple fronts, including from Russia and Iran, and must decide future of US arsenal Joe Biden will have to make critical decisions on arms control in his first days in the White House that could determin…
- 7 days ago, 11 Jan 21, 1:00am -

Despite virus spread, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei forbids what he calls ‘untrustworthy’ jabsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageVaccines produced by the US and UK will be banned from entering Iran, its supreme leader has said…
- 10 days ago, 8 Jan 21, 8:49am -

I will always regret that I did not do more to stop war with Vietnam. Now, I am calling on whistleblowers to step up and expose Trump’s plansPresident Trump’s incitement of criminal mob violence and occupation of the Capitol makes clear there is…
- 10 days ago, 8 Jan 21, 6:16am -

Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis died in drone strike ordered by US presidentA Baghdad court has issued a warrant for the arrest of the US president, Donald Trump, as part of its investigation into the killing of a top Iraqi paramilitary commander.Abu Mahdi al-…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 9:53am -

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani says western democracy is brittle and weakIn much of the world, the scenes that played out in Washington on Wednesday prompted shock, horror and anguish.But in Moscow, Beijing and other capitals where autocratic gover…
- 11 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 9:12am -

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
- 7 Dec 16, 11:23pm -