Security forces in Iran have arrested two members of the Iranian Parliament (Majles) on charges of "disrupting the car market," a member of parliament’s ethics committee told Fars news agency on August 22.
Addressing the government, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei largely avoided foreign policy issues and emphasized the economy and culture as the two most important problems facing the nation.
New figures released by the European Commission indicate that bilateral trade between 28 EU members and Iran has dropped to one quarter during the first six months of 2019 compared with the same period in 2018.
Recent disclosure of major financial corruption cases in Iran appear to have caused colossal collateral damage to the hard core of the Islamic Republic while also ruining the political future of several key regime insiders.
There is a fierce internal battle raging against a Khamenei loyalist who might have lost his support from the Supreme Leader. Most suspect the saga is connected to the issue of succession.
Iran's car manufacturing industry is suffering from "widespread financial corruption," a member of Majles (parliament) has disclosed.
The issue of forced confessions by Iranian intelligence organs has long concerned rights defenders and ordinary citizens. Now a lawmaker and wife of a victim raise the issue again.
The former head of Iran's all-powerful conservative Judiciary and a close ally of the Supreme Leader is being subjected to public humiliation by official media. What's happening in Iran?
The mysterious absence of the prime suspect in a major case of alleged corruption related to the Central Bank of Iran has given rise to the possibility that the country's Intelligence Ministry is involved in the case.
Gibraltar media is reporting that the government has decided to release the Grace 1 Iranian supertanker after receiving formal written assurances from the government in Tehran that it would not discharge its cargo in Syria.
The head of the intelligence and security department of the Islamic Republic's Judiciary says a "cleansing" procedure is underway in the country's judicial system, traditionally dominated by conservatives.
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has dismissed the U.S. plan to form a military coalition in the Persian Gulf to protect navigation as "superficial and impractical.
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