Reuters International JULY 12, 2017 FILE PHOTO – Protesters hold signs against U.S. President Donald Trump’s limited travel ban, approved by the U.S. Supreme Court, in New York City, U.S. on June 29, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney/File Photo (reuters_tickers) By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) – An Iranian cancer researcher […]
Source: The Guardian By Saeed Kamali Dehghan Iran correspondent Judiciary and police insist a car interior is public space but more women are defying authorities by driving with ‘bad hijab’ Iranian women […]
Jul 05,2017 – JORDAN TIMES The fifth round of Astana talks on Syria, under the sponsorship of Russia, Iran and Turkey, started on Tuesday, with focus, this time, on the ceasefire, and the precise boundaries of the so-called de-escalation zones and who would police them. It is generally agreed that […]
Source: Associated Press TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran will allow its citizens to take part in this year’s hajj pilgrimage despite soaring tensions with arch rival Saudi Arabia. Iran’s semi-official […]
TEHRAN — Mocking presidents of the Great Satan, the United States, has long been standard practice during state-backed rallies in Iran, where anti-Americanism is ingrained in state ideology. For decades, Iranian revolutionary families would work late into the night to make sock puppets, cartoons and effigies of every American president since […]
Source: Huffington Post “My goal is just empowering women and giving them a voice,” said the activist behind the effort. By Antonia Blumberg COURTESY OF MASIH ALINEJADWomen share their photos […]
Source: Associated Press By MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — After months of wrangling, tighter restrictions on travel to the U.S. from six mostly Muslim nations take effect Thursday evening after […]
DAWN.com https://images.dawn.com/news/1177901 Before she begins her Wednesday morning, Iranian activist Masih Alinejad spends hours sifting through scores of videos and photos sent to her of women in Iran wearing white headscarves or white clothing as part of a growing online protest. To campaign against the obligatory wearing of headscarves – […]
Source: BBC News Some demands set by four Arab states on Qatar in return for lifting sanctions will be “difficult to meet”, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says. However, […]
Source: Time By Yuval Noah Harari Jun 23, 2017 IDEAS Harari is the internationally best-selling author of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and Homo Deus: A Brief History of […]
Iran is the only country that has banned the use of WMDs with religious edicts at the highest levels Seyed Hossein Mousavian 10 comments Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has upheld a fatwa against weapons of mass destruction AP Since the advent of nuclear weapons, nations and grassroots movements across the […]
Iran is boxed in economically, militarily and politically. It has no friends left. Very few neighbours would bat an eyelid and many would quietly applaud Andrew MacLeod @AndrewMMacleod Tehran may need to abandon its own nuclear ambitions to avoid an escalation of tensions with the US Reuters Donald Trump has just signalled that […]
May 31, 2017 People in Iran is mesmerized by the spirit of Ramadan every year. Different tribes and ethnic groups in the country have special rituals to celebrate the holy […]
June 12, 2017 TEHRAN – A professor of global thought and comparative philosophies says he thinks it is “essential” for Iran to launch a “Ramadan diplomatic offensive” to lessen the effects of the blockade on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and some other Persian Gulf Arab states and to “signal to […]
Reuters International JUN 12, 2017 – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the death anniversary of the founder of the Islamic Republic […]
Source: Asia Times: The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is another matter. According to senior Chinese officials, Saudi royal family members are funding every radical madrassa in Asia, including those in Xinjiang Province. When Chinese diplomats have complained to the Saudi government, it has denied knowledge of the funding, while turning […]
Reuters International JUN 7, 2017 A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran, Iran, June 7, 2017. Omid Vahabzadeh/TIMA via REUTERS (reuters_tickers) By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) – Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the Iranian parliament and Ayatollah Khomeini’s mausoleum in Tehran on […]
John Bacon USA Today Why Saudi Arabia is mad at Qatar and why we care 8 Hours Ago | 01:00 The rift between Qatar and other Arab nations intensified Monday whenSaudi […]
Attacks by the Islamic State militant group in Europe and elsewhere show that Western policies in the Middle East have backfired, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. “Today, Daesh (IS) is being pushed out from its birthplace in Iraq and Syria and is moving to other countries […]
Reuters International MAY 31, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani meets with U.S. President Donald Trump in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 21, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst/File […]