Iran's release last month of Nizar Zakka, a Lebanese businessman with U.S. permanent residency, after four years in prison was meant as an opening for U.S.-Iranian talks, according to three Western sources familiar with the issue.
Prague is now host to a photo exhibition of an Iranian award-winning photojournalist, Hassan Sarbakhshian. Through his works, Sarbakhshian looks into the lives of the Jewish minority still in Iran and those who decided to leave for Israel. Radio Farda's Kambiz Keramati reports.
In its latest report the Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) says that the "misery index" in the country reached 39% last winter, whereas a year earlier it stood at 19.4%.
Iran on July 8 called on European signatories of a landmark nuclear agreement to abstain from any rash move in response to Tehran's breaching the uranium-enrichment cap set by the 2015 deal.
Controversy over operating vast computer networks using subsidized cheap electricity in Iran to mine bitcoins shows no sign of abetting.
Tehran's Friday Prayer Imam has suggested that Iran should launch a missile attack on Israel's Dimona nuclear power plant.
The Islamic Republic has executed at least 110 people between January 1 and June 30, 2019, in prisons or in public, Iran Human Rights Organization (IHRO) reports.
There seems to be some confusion about current U.S. policy towards Iran. But there is no question that the White House has a definite policy toward Iran. It is based on a desire to achieve certain objectives that support American interests and international peace.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's renewed threat of taking "the next step" in suspending Iran's obligations under the 2015 nuclear agreement may put an end to the deal also called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
In an open letter to the head of the Islamic Republic judiciary, some relatives of eight imprisoned ecologists in Iran have called for the immediate release of their loved ones.
Making a nuclear bomb is a complex process. The first challenge is getting hold of the radioactive raw material required.
The Islamic Republic's Deputy Health Minister says Iran is suffering from a "serious shortage of physicians," since thousands of local doctors have emigrated.
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