Security officers and Red Crescent workers are seen at the site where the Ukraine International Airlines plane crashed, on the outskirts of Tehran, Iran January 8, 2020. (Reuters) January 21, 2020 Iran said it had asked the US and French authorities for equipment to download information from black boxes on a downed Ukrainian [...]
Founder of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini speaks from a balcony of the Alavi School in Tehran in February 1979. (Reuters) By Mark Curtis and Phil Miller January 21, 2020 The UK’s secret intelligence service, MI6, worked with the CIA to provide a list of alleged Soviet agents in Iran to Ayatollah [...]
Crowds gathering in front of Ostad Moein St in Tehran in protest against Khamenei for deceiving the public about plane crash. January 12, 2020. (Social Media) By Aida Ghajar January 21, 2020 It was January 12. Crowds of protesters were on the streets, chanting against the Islamic Republic. The protests were triggered by the [...]
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov. (REUTERS) January 21, 2020 Moscow has warned Tehran against making 'reckless steps' to quit the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said. Ryabkov added that Russia urges Iran to comply with its obligations to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), according to Sputnik. The [...]
US President Donald Trump. (Reuters) January 21, 2020 An Iranian lawmaker announced a 3 million dollar award to “whoever kills Trump”, Iranian semi-official News agency reported. “On behalf of people of Kerman province, we will pay 3 million dollar award in cash to whoever kills Trump,” Ahmad Hamzeh told parliamentarians, according to ISNA. [...]
Ukraine International Airlines' Boeing 737-800 plane wreckage is seen in a picture from investigation team in Tehran, Jan 11, 2020. (Reuters) January 21, 2020 Iran has confirmed two missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner brought down this month, in a catastrophic error that killed all 176 people on board and sparked angry [...]
Commander of IRGC's Provincial Force in Khuzestan Province, Hassan Shahvarpour, undated. (Fars) By Morad Veisi January 21, 2020 The U.S. Department of State has added the name of IRGC Brigadier General Hassan Shahvarpour to the list of Iranian officials sanctioned by the United States. Shahvarpour is the commander of the IRGC unit that massacred [...]
Iranians students demonstrate following a tribute for the victims of Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 in front of the Amirkabir University in the capital Tehran. (AFP) January 21, 2020 Iranian artists, athletes, and media personalities have lent their voices to anti-government protests in the country over the accidental downing of a passenger plane [...]
Kimia Alizadeh is the only Iranian female Olympic medallist. (AFP) January 21, 2020 Iran’s only female Olympic medalist Kimia Alizadeh, who has said she had left her homeland because she had had enough of being used as a propaganda tool, is moving to Germany, her Dutch coach said. Alizadeh, who won taekwondo bronze at the [...]
Brigadier General Mohammad Hejazi was appointed as Acting Commander of Qods Force on January 20, 2020. (Tasnim) By Maryam Sinaiee January 21, 2020 On January 20 Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guard appointed Mohammad Hejazi as Vice-Commander of the Qods (Quds) Force, a development that signals even more impetus to the role of Iran's extra-territorial [...]
