Congressional Republicans are planning to introduce legislation this week to ensure tougher measures targeting Iran that would add to President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure”.
The Islamic Republic intelligence agents arrested a prominent Iranian lawyer Ali Mojtahedzadeh on Monday, June 8, in Tehran, apparently for criticizing corruption at the Judiciary.
All students of medicine, dentistry and pharmacology in Iran must take courses in Islamic or traditional medicine, the health ministry has announced, despite concerns about potential harm to people's health.
Iranian news agencies on June 7 reported that "seminary students and representatives of Armed Forces" staged a sit-in in front of a zoorkhaneh – place for practising an ancient sport – in protest to women taking up the men-only sport.
During a corruption trial in Iran on Sunday a prosecutor known for the mass arrest of journalists in 2013 was named as the recipient of 500,000 euros in bribes from the defendant.
Iranian scientist Majid Taheri returned home June 8 after his release from prison in the United States as part of a prisoner exchange, semi-official news agency ISNA reported.
The Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Sunday, June 7, that Iran was ready to swap "other prisoners" with the United States.
Iran’s Economy and Finance Minister has said the coronavirus pandemic has cost his country a 15 percent drop in Gross Domestic Product.
The former executive deputy of the Islamic Republic's powerful Judiciary has gone on trial for large-scale corruption on Sunday, June 7 in Tehran.
A female Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life is infected with coronavirus but refused treatment in a hospital.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged world powers Sunday to reimpose tough sanctions against Iran, vowing to curb Tehran's regional "aggression".
The Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister has told RFE/RL that Iran cannot demand any conditions for the handover of flight recorders of the Ukrainian airliner that the Revolutionary Guard dawned over Tehran in January.
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