RFE/RL spoke with a Cossack leader and sometime hired gun just after he visited Russian mercenaries thought to have been wounded in Syria earlier this month by a U.S. military bombardment. He shares what he's heard about the battle that night and about how Russians are recruited to fight there.
An independent Iranian labor union has reported that hundreds of steel workers continued to protest on February 21 for the fourth consecutive day outside the governor’s office in the city of Ahvaz.
Saeid Rezaie says that people of Iran never accepted the claim that Baha’i leaders are involved in espionage against their homeland.
Prominent Iranian physicist, human rights activist, and political prisoner Narges Mohammadi has lambasted the Islamic Republic’s judiciary as a part of “dictatorship structure” ruling Iran.
Violent clashes between Gonabadi dervishes and Iranian security forces follow years of tensions and persecution of dervishes whose houses of worship have been destroyed and members detained.
Deputy Parliamentary Speaker Ali Motahari says intelligence and judiciary officials have promised to put an end to the house arrest of reformist leaders .
Saeed Rezaie, one of the seven members of a former group of Baha’i leaders in Iran has been released from jail after ten years.
That Russian mercenaries are helping Kremlin war efforts isn't new. But a mounting death toll in Syria could force Russia's hand on acknowledging, and regulating, such undertakings.
Iran's central bank announced measures to combat the rial's fall to record lows one day after police cracked down on foreign exchange dealers on the streets of Tehran.
President Hassan Rouhani’s suggestion that conflicts in Iranian society could be resolved with a constitutional referendum is stirring controversy.
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