The Trump administration moved on Thursday to make permanent a new questionnaire that asks some U.S. visa applicants to provide their social media handles and detailed biographical and travel history, according to a public notice.
Radio Farda contributor Akbar Ganji writes in an op-ed that Khamenei may consider another clergy as his potential successor: Ayatollah Ali Reza A’arafi, the head of Iran’s religious seminaries who plays a crucial role in Iran’s proxy war in Syria.
A U.S. government watchdog says Afghan security forces continue to commit sexual abuses against children.
Several hundred Iranian musicians gathered at Tehran’s House of Music on August 2 to protest against what they called a new wave of illegal cancellations of licensed and scheduled concerts.
U.S. President Donald Trump has signed into law new legislation imposing further sanctions on Russia, Iran, and North Korea but called the bill “significantly flawed” and signaled that he might not fully implement the sanctions.
Annual ceremonies to pay homage to Iran’s last king, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, were once again held in Cairo on July 27.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards have started using a new route across the Gulf to funnel covert arms shipments to their Houthi allies in Yemen's civil war, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the United States to reduce the staff of its diplomatic missions by 755 people in the latest twist in souring relations between the two countries. The situation brings to mind late 1986, when the Soviet authorities suddenly barred Washington from hiring Soviet citizens to work at its missions.
A senior Afghan official has accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of providing sanctuaries and material support to the Afghan Taliban.
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