The deputy commander of the Greater Tehran’s Police Operations says “288 foreign citizens, drug addicts, narcotics dealers, burglars, thugs and ruffians”, were arrested in an overnight operation.
In his first televised interview since protests rocked the country earlier this month, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani conceded that there are economic, social, and cultural problems in the country, but promised his government will take steps to address them.
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, on a visit to London Monday, said he hoped to make progress with European allies who are signatories to the Iran nuclear deal on how to overhaul the landmark accord.
From January 19 o 21, 806 people were taken to emergency wards after a heavy dust storm hit the city of Ahvaz, southwestern Iran.
Iran's central bank warned investors speculating on the fall of the toman that they were heading for losses because his bank could control the foreign exchange market and the currency was likely to rebound in the next couple of months.
After days of public statements and posturing by pro-reformist members of the Iranian parliament who were asking to be allowed to visit prisons and see how detained protesters are treated, it seems there has been a breakthrough.
A Tehran member of parliament, Farideh Oladghobad has disclosed that 50% of the capital’s schools are dilapidated.
Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim says his country's troops have crossed over the Syrian border on the second day of Ankara's operation on a Kurdish-run enclave.
Two weeks after widespread protests against economic hardship and lack of freedoms, Iran's Supreme Leader has ordered the Iranian Armed Forces to reduce their involvement in the country’s economy.
The most prominent Sunni leader in Iran has called for a change in the constitution, lifting religious discrimination.
An outspoken Iranian MP tells prison authorities, "Stop threatening us" and allow MPs to visit prisons.
German authorities who have searched many locations, believe that Iranian agents were preparing hostile action against Jewish targets.
Residents of one of the hottest regions on earth could face electricity shortages by winter’s end, according to a local official in Iran’s oil-rich Khuzestan province.
The Islamic Republic continued to suppress freedoms of expression, religion, and the press in 2017, and failed to deliver promised progress on gender equality according to an annual report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) published January 17.
At the UN Security Council, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has warned that a failure of the Iran nuclear agreement with world powers would send an "alarming” message to the international community.
Iranian media say a 34-year-old man had a hand chopped off as punishment for stealing livestock in the northeastern province of Razavi Khorasan.
The recent unrest in Iran, which saw almost two weeks of nationwide demonstrations, cost the lives of 25 protesters and resulted in thousands of arrests. It also shook the very foundations of the clerical-military regime.
An Iranian official has warned that Tehran’s multi-billion-dollar deal for buying Airbus planes will be off the table if the US leaves the nuclear deal.
A protester who died in custody had confided to his family that inmates were forced to take pills that made them sick, Tehran MP Mahmoud Sadeghi revealed on Twitter on January 16.
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