Britain's HMS Kent as the Type 23 frigate warship carries out duties off the coast of Djibouti, February 5, 2015. (AFP) August 24, 2019 A third British warship is heading to the Arabian Gulf, the Royal Navy announced on Saturday, amid heightened tensions between the West and Iran. Britain has already sent the [...]
Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. (AP) August 24, 2019 Iran’s Foreign Ministry has imposed sanctions on the Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies and its CEO for its role in promoting sanctions and “economic terrorism” against Iran. The think tank, which led criticism in Washington of Iran’s [...]
The regime’s security forces regularly attack mixed gender parties and arrest partygoers even though they are private parties. (Supplied) August 24, 2019 Iran’s state-run media said that 52 people were detained today in a mixed gender party in the northern city of Sari in Iran. According to Fars News Agency, 29 of the detainees were [...]
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif. (AP) August 24, 2019 Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will head to East Asia on Sunday, his office said, as part of a diplomatic push to win relief from biting US sanctions. Zarif would visit China, Japan and Malaysia fresh on the heels of a tour [...]
Abdolnaser Hemmati, the governor of Central Bank of Iran. (MEHR) August 24, 2019 The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Abdolnasser Hemmati says the value of the Iranian currency rial has been strengthened by 40 percent during recent months. Hemmati’s claim comes on the backdrop of a sharp devaluation of Iran’s [...]
A ballistic missile is launched and tested in an undisclosed location, Iran, March 9, 2016. . (REUTERS) August 24, 2019 Iran has test fired a new missile, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Major General Hossein Salami, said on Saturday, according to the Tasnim news agency. "Our country is always the arena for [...]
Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, centre, the deputy head of the mostly Shiite forces known as the Popular Mobilization Units, attends a ceremony marking Police Day in Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 9, 2016. (AP) By Seth J. Frantzman August 24, 2019 A divide within the Popular Mobilization Forces, a group of mostly Shi’ite militias that are seen [...]
Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and a US Air Force B-52H Stratofortress conduct joint exercises in the US Central Command area of responsibility in the Arabian sea. (AP) By Michael Rubin August 24, 2019 We could be witnessing the death throes of the Islamic Republic. Iran and the United States are as close to [...]
Shrine of 8th Shiite Imam in the northwest city of Mashhad. (MEHR) August 24, 2019 The spokesman for the Iraqi Foreign Ministry, Ahmad al-Sahaf says his office is "following with great interest" reports about an Iraqi woman being beaten at Iran’s Mashhad airport, Al Arabiya reported on Thursday August 22. The remarks were made after [...]
An estimated 100,000 MEK supporters including Iranian diaspora at Paris's annual MEK rally at Le Bourget, Paris 2016. (NCRI) August 24, 2019 Iranians residing in France, supporters of the Iranian Resistance, and human rights organizations took part in a rally against the visit to Paris by Javad Zarif, the mullahs' foreign minister. Hundreds [...]
