Iran is facing its harshest drought in the last 50 years, and nearly half the country’s population will soon face water shortages, according to the Energy Ministry.
Ahmad Zadhoush, the Dean of Al-Mortada School, at the Qom Seminary, has called for the town to be turned into an “Islamic Vatican,” independent of the Islamic Republic of Iran, where clerics rule.
Tehran’s representative in parliament has criticized the intelligence arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), accusing it of rights abuses.
Ignoring a heavy presence of police and security forces, hundreds of people in the city of Kazeroon continued their protest assembly on April 20.
In a rare meeting earlier this week with President Hassan Rouhani, members of his reformist political block criticized the president.
Protests in the majority Kurdish regions of western Iran continued this week, with merchants going on strike.
Iran’s Supreme Leader blames foreign intelligence for everything from the depreciating value of the national currency to in-fighting among the country’s intelligence services and general discord in the country.
Iranian Physicist Narges Mohammadi has been awarded the American Physical Society’s 2018 Andrei Sakharov Prize while in prison in Iran.
The United Nations has approved the accreditation of a U.S. based NGO focusing on human rights issues in Iran.
A prominent Iranian scientist and deputy head of the Islamic Republic’s Department of Environment has apparently resigned from his post.
The president of Iran’s Football Federation, Mehdi Taj, has been summoned to court over his decision to allow a player to return to the national team after playing against Israeli athletes.
One week after the Rouhani administration announced the government-imposed rate of 42,000 rials against every US dollar, chaos and ambiguity in Iran’s foreign exchange market continue.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has outlined three goals of the Trump administration in Syria: a ban on the use of chemical weapons, a full defeat of ISIS, and preventing Iran from “taking over the area.”
A branch of Iran’s Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a Kurdish citizen, his lawyer said in an exclusive interview with Radio Farda’s Mahtab Vahidi Rad.
Saeed Mortazavi, regime insider and a notorious persecutor of media and dissidents, has 'disappeared' before serving a two-year sentence.
Iran’s central bank has announced a ban on the sale of foreign currencies at exchange bureaus.
A host of Iranian leaders and officials have condemned the Western missile attack on Syrian targets in retaliation for the use of chemical weapons by Bashar Assad's forces.
An Iranian resident of Sweden, Kamran Ghaderi, who started his march for Iran’s Freedom about a year ago in Stockholm has been detained after entering his homeland.
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