A secretive group living in Kyrgyzstan that adheres to a strict interpretation of Islam is in the spotlight once again after the arrest of one of the community’s leaders.
A top consultant to the Supreme Leader ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stepped in to defend the controversial “Mehr” (affection) housing project in full force.
Neighborhood patrols will to be deployed all over Iran, the commander of Mobilization Resistance Force, Baseej, has announced.
An official of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce (ICC) says that China has imposed further restrictions on banking ties to his country.
U.S. Department of the Treasury officially highlighted on Tuesday, November 14, the ways in which Americans can provide humanitarian assistance to the Iranian people.
Iran has amended its tough drug laws to eliminate the death penalty for some drug offenses.
The value of the Iranian rial has again dropped in recent days, reaching a new record low for the national currency.
After a two-day suspension last week of his hardline conservative newspaper Kayhan, Managing Editor Hossein Shariatmadari said the ban was politically motivated.
The world's earliest evidence of grape winemaking has been detected in 8,000-year-old pottery jars unearthed in Georgia, making the tradition almost 1,000 years older than previously thought, researchers said on November 13.
Iran's Kermanshah Province bore the brunt of the quake, with the Interior Ministry reporting 407 dead and nearly 6,700 people injured. Rescue workers and desperate relatives are digging through debris in a search for survivors after a powerful earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border.
Imprisoned labor rights’ activist Mahmoud Salehi was transferred to the central prison in the city of Saqqez on November 11 despite doctors’ saying his health is too fragile.
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