Lebanon's prime minister-designate on Monday called for a new government to be formed “in record time,” pledging to speed up the investigation into the massive Beirut explosion and implement reforms after winning the backing of major parties in the crisis-hit country.
Ebrahim Nikdel-Moqadam, the lawyer representing the mother of a 13-year-old girl beheaded by her father, says the sentence that the criminal received on the basis of the Islamic Penal Code is not proportional to the "extremely violent crime" that he committed.
Many political and civil activists are condemning the prison sentences of signatories to an anti-Islamic Republic government letter widely known as the "77 Statement."
For four decades Iran has tried to control and censor news and entertainment, but technology progresses and these efforts are ultimately futile.
Turkey has been reducing natural gas imports from its traditional suppliers, Russia and Iran. Imports from Iran were zero in the second quarter of 2020.
Families of prisoners massacred in Iranian prisons in 1988 went to a graveyard to mark the 32nd anniversary of the tragedy on August 28.
The sentencing of a father for beheading his fourteen -year-old daughter with a sickle while she was asleep for eloping with a much older man in May has rekindled conversations about the Islamic Penal Code on social media.
The United States Has Indicted Four citizens for conspiring to sell sanctioned Iranian oil to China and launder the proceeds. Heavy sentences awaited in case of conviction.
Although there are some potential reformist candidates for Iran's 2021 presidential race, they could hardly compete with conservatives, with consolidated power.
China has again started officially reporting oil imports from Iran after it showed zero purchases in June while shipments were being received as Indonesian oil.
The visit of IAEA chief Rafael Grossi to Iran has ended in agreement regarding demands for international inspections of two undeclared nuclear sites.
The president of the UN Security Council (UNSC) has rejected Washington's demand to snap back international sanctions on Tehran that were lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal.
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