Reuters International This content was published on November 13, 2017 2:56 AMNov 13, 2017 – 02:56 A damaged storefront is seen after an earthquake in Halabja, Iraq, November 12, 2017. TWITTER – Osama Golpy/Rudaw/Social Media/via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Raya Jalabi and Parisa Hafezi BAGHDAD/ANKARA (Reuters) – More than 120 […]
Source: The Foreign Policy Elephants in the Room And it looks a lot like a plan to squeeze Iran. By Dov Zakheim There seems to be a general consensus in […]
Source: BBC News Yemen faces the world’s largest famine in decades “with millions of victims” if aid deliveries are not resumed, a senior UN official has warned. Mark Lowcock, the […]
Source: Time By Casey Quackenbush 11:52 PM EST Saudi Arabia pushed war-ravaged Yemen to the brink of the worst famine the world has seen in decades when it closed the country’s […]
Society November 6, 2017 TEHRAN — “I have severe backache and too much walking is strictly prohibited for me, however, I attend Arba’een Trekking since I do love Imam Hussein […]
Reuters International This content was published on November 7, 2017 2:52 PMNov 7, 2017 – 14:52 Shi’ite worshippers place copies of the Koran on their heads during Ramadan at the […]
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Unhappy with the Baghdad administration’s cooperation with Iran, the U.S. seems to be taking sides with Saudi Arabia Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri unexpectedly announced his resignation on Saturday. So what? But where did he announce his decision to quit and what did he say as […]
Oct 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Over recent years, many Iranians in the big cities confided quietly to the opinion pollsters that they feel an empathy with the West. It was not reciprocated. Frankly, most people in the West have no in-depth opinion about Iran. If they think […]
By swissinfo.ch and agencies October 25, 2017 6:24 PMOct 25, 2017 – 18:24 A wall-painting in Tehran. Switzerland will assume Saudi consular interests in the Iranian capital, and vice-versa. (Keystone) The Swiss government has confirmed that it will officially take up a protecting power mandate in the Iran-Saudi Arabia conflict, […]
Source: The Guardian BY Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent When the Tehran authorities commissioned the construction of a mosque near the City theatre – one of Iranian capital’s most distinctive buildings – it was […]
By Naghmeh Mizanian October 23, 2017 TEHRAN – Every morning I wake up with my heart full of love. I have an enthusiasm to make new dolls, says Bibi Hazer […]
Source: Associated Press LONDON (AP) — A Baha’i poet who was jailed for almost a decade in Iran has won a writing award celebrating free speech. Mahvash Sabet shares the […]
Reuters International This content was published on October 3, 2017 FILE PHOTO: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif listens to anchor Charlie Rose, at an event held in conjunction with the 72nd United Nations General Assembly in Manhattan, New York, U.S., September 27, 2017. REUTERS/Bria Webb (reuters_tickers) BEIRUT (Reuters) – […]
Source: Reuters Ankara (Reuters) – Iran and Turkey will work together to confront the disintegration of Iraq and Syria to ease tension in the crisis-hit region, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani […]
Source: Associated Press By JULIET LINDERMAN BALTIMORE (AP) — A coalition of Muslim and Iranian-American advocates and a nonpartisan legal institute filed the first lawsuits against the Trump administration’s new […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL KRG leader Masoud Barzani attends a rally in support for the upcoming September 25th independence referendum in Zakho, Iraq September 14, 2017. (Reuters Photo) Iraq’s Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) President Massoud Barzani vowed Friday to go ahead with the planned independence referendum on September 25 […]
Sep 14,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri For the past six months or so, twice a week the regional and international media have warned about the looming risk […]
Source: The New York Times By THOMAS ERDBRINK SEPT. 11, 2017 Photo Nasser, a taxi driver who has been sober for three years, serving tea at an Alcoholics Anonymous association meeting […]
Reuters International AUGUST 29, 2017 Iranian president Hassan Rouhani attends his swearing-in ceremony for a further term, at the parliament in Tehran, Iran, August 5, 2017. President.ir/Handout via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) – Iran has dismissed a U.S. demand for United Nations nuclear inspectors to visit its […]
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An attorney for the founder of a mystical, New Age version of Shiite Islam says an Iranian court has sentenced his client to death. Mahmoud Alizadeh Tabatabaei tells The Associated Press that the court sentenced Mohammad Ali Taheri to death on charges of […]