Energy politics around the Caspian Sea breeds complications, as a recent example involving Turkmenistan, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Armenia reminds us. (The views expressed in this blog post do not necessarily reflect those of RFE/RL.)
Deputy speaker and outspoken Tehran MP Ali Motahari has dismissed comments made by two Islamic jurists from the influential Guardian Council (GC) declaring a Zoroastrian’s membership in Yazd City Council as null and void.
Hours after his close allies, Hamid Baghaei and Ali Akbar Javanfekr were summoned to the court, former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked the Islamic Republic’s judiciary with unprecedented vitriolic criticism.
Thirteen United States Senators have written a letter to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Nikki Haley, asking for tougher inspections of Iranian sites.
Despite several successes in recent elections, Iran's reformists now seem crippled by a lack of unity. The crisis is caused not only by the concerted counter-efforts of conservatives, led by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, but also by their own internal problems.
Toyota has apologized to the United States after a subsidiary sold a single vehicle to the Iranian Embassy in India, underscoring foreign companies' reluctance to do business with Tehran despite a two-year-old nuclear deal easing sanctions.
Protest assemblies against Rouhani’s nominee for heading the Science Ministry have gained momentum at universities around Iran.
The director of Fars Province’s Cultural Heritage Organization (CHO) has dismissed the authenticity of a purportedly official statement declaring that Cyrus the Great’s mausoleum, Pasargadae, would be closed to the public from October 27 to 30.
According local media in Iran, labor protests have gained momentum again in different parts of the country.
Iran’s outspoken Deputy Speaker of Parliament, Ali Motahari has attacked Friday prayers, one of the pillars the loyal clergy use to prop up Iranian regimes policy messages to the people and the local media.
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