Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has drawn parallels between the oppressive system described in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and the systemic control of women in Iranian society.
A day after the Iranian government announced the lifting of restrictions on WhatsApp and Google Play, media and users erupted in outrage, accusing it of hypocrisy following the release of a 32-point plan to tighten and compartmentalize Internet access.
The Israeli prime minister said Wednesday Yemen's Houthi militants will learn the lesson fellow Iran-backed militant groups like Hamas and Hezbollah learned from the Jewish state.
Russia has called on the UN nuclear watchdog to adopt an impartial approach to the monitoring of Tehran's nuclear facilities, after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned Tehran is rapidly nearing the position of a nuclear state.
A member of the Iranian parliament’s economic committee said on Wednesday that the administration has raised the official exchange rate of foreign currencies to generate revenue at the public's expense,warning of a looming inflationary wave.
The son of a key figure in Iran's ruling establishment is at the heart of a sanctions-busting secret trade with Russia, in which Iran provides Moscow with weapons in exchange for oil, a report by Bloomberg said.
The Iranian president held a meeting with some of the Ministry of Intelligence's top officials on Tuesday, warning them that without the support of the people, the country cannot confront foreign enemies.
Iran has witnessed the rapid growth of a group known as ‘eulogists’ during the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s three decades of leadership, playing a very prominent role not only in religious ceremonies, but also in the country's political sphere.
"I can’t remember the last time I was so shaken as I was watching images of Assad’s prisons," says Fatemeh, who has seen the inside of Iran’s prisons for her activism. “My country funded these crimes. Syrians have every right to hate us."
Presidents Joe Biden and Donald Trump both failed to halt Iran’s march toward nuclear weapons, Representative Brad Sherman, one of the strongest Democratic voices in the US Congress opposing the Islamic Republic told Iran International.
