Iranian lawmakers grilled President Hassan Rouhani over his economic performance in a special session of parliament August 28. Rising unemployment, the spiraling devaluation of the national currency, a surge in smuggling and other economic crimes, renewed sanctions against Iran’s banks, and the country’s general economic decline were all on the agenda at Tuesday’s session.
The Iranian Parliament has impeached and dismissed a second minister from President Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet on August 26, in another blow to his government in less than a month.
U.S. Senator John McCain, a six-term Republican senator from Arizona and war hero who endured almost six years of torture and captivity in the infamous Hanoi Hilton, has died. He was 81.
IRGC Admiral Alireza Tangsiri is the sixth commander that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy has had since its inception in 1985. He is one of the IRGC's most hardline commanders and a favorite of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is commander-in-chief of Iran’s armed forces.
Sixty members of the European Parliament have expressed deep concern over the prolonged detention of Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and demanded her unconditional release in a letter to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on August 22.
It remains to be seen if this latest round of protests in Iran will continue to gain momentum or not. One thing is for certain, the Islamic Republic is skilled at “managing” a discontented populous—opposition activists call it suppression. What are the coercive tools and mechanisms used in Iran to silence dissent?
A conservative Iranian MP indirectly accused president Hassan Rouhani of being a British Citizen.
Iran’s representative to OPEC has said no member of OPEC should produce more than its quota and take over another member’s shares on the market.
Corruption in Iran has spread and extended to “a number of top state officials”, the Islamic Republic’s Vice President has declared.
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