Three “night party centers” were uncovered and eighteen arrested in Kerman, Revolutionary and General Court Prosecutor of the city, Dadkhoda Salari, announced, on Tuesday, August 8.
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and ex-governor of Ukraine's Odesa region who was stripped last month of his Ukrainian citizenship, says Russian President Vladimir Putin will eventually face "full international isolation" as a result of tensions between Moscow and the West.
Some members of the Iranian parliament have joined the recent chorus demanding the release of Iran Green Movement figureheads who have been under house arrest for more than six years.
Twenty-five years after the gruesome murder of Fereydoun Farrokhzad, a famous Iranian singer and performer, his fans and friends are still seeking answers.
The 80th anniversary of the formal beginning of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin's 1937 Great Terror passed without any official notice from the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin. But people whose families were torn apart by the government's assault on its own people are trying to be heard.
Tajikistan has pardoned dozens of its nationals who voluntarily returned from Syria and Iraq. The returnees are now to trying to rebuild their lives under the watchful eyes of the government in a society wary of their intentions.
Although estimates of poverty levels in Iran range from 30 percent to 40 percent, this writer believes close to two-thirds of the Iranian population lives below the poverty line.
As Iranian President Hassan Rohani enters his second term in office, he faces a number of challenges both at home and from abroad.
Leading Iraqi Shi'ite clerics are calling for the disbandment of powerful Iran-backed Shi'ite militias now that the nation has retaken its second largest city, Mosul, from the Islamic State extremist group.
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