Putting aside that argument, there are certainly some diplomatic opportunities Mr. Trump can seize, though history and ominous recent warnings suggest that he may soften up his adversaries and his allies with threats of military action if he doesn’t get what he wants. (See: Iran, Greenland, Panama.) Here is a scorecard to keep handy in…
Russia and Iran have agreed to closer military co-operation, in a move announced during a visit to Moscow by President Masoud Pezeshkian. The two countries signed a 20-year “strategic partnership” treaty, covering areas ranging from defence and technology to energy and trade. Iran already supplies drones to Russia, as well as, according to Western intelligence,…
German-Iranian woman Nahid Taghavi has been released from prison in Iran, her daughter says. “It’s over. Nahid is free! After more than four years as a political prisoner in the Islamic Republic of Iran my mother… was freed and is back in Germany,” Mariam Claren wrote on X. Taghavi, 70, was arrested in Tehran in…
Submitted photo Rocky Sickmann met Jimmy Carter the day after he landed in Germany after being held in Iran for over a year Out of the many mourning former President Jimmy Carter, not everyone can say he saved their life. Rocky Sickmann was a 22-year-old US Marine stationed at the American embassy in Tehran, Iran,…
At least 901 people were reportedly executed in Iran last year, including about 40 in a single week in December, according to the UN human rights chief. “It is deeply disturbing that yet again we see an increase in the number of people subjected to the death penalty in Iran year-on-year,” Volker Türk said. “It…
Iranian authorities have confirmed for the first time that Italian journalist Cecilia Sala was arrested in the country on the grounds of “violation of the Islamic Republic’s laws”. It comes as a US state department spokesperson told Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica that Ms Sala’s case could be linked to the recent arrest of an…
Iran’s judiciary has said Iranian-German dissident Jamshid Sharmahd died before his execution was reported by state media late last month. The judiciary’s news agency said on 28 October that Sharmahd – who was sentenced to death on the charge of “corruption on Earth” in 2023 following a trial that human rights groups said was grossly…
Human rights activists have called on authorities in Iran to release a woman who was detained after removing her clothes at a university, in what they said was a protest against the compulsory hijab laws. A video surfaced on social media on Saturday showing the woman in her underwear sitting on some steps and then…
Iran has reportedly ordered for a “harsh and regretful” response to Saturday’s deadly Israeli attack on Iranian military facilities. The New York Times, citing three Iranian officials, reported that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had instructed the Supreme National Security Council on Monday to prepare for attacking Israel. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei attends…
Iran on Saturday said that two soldiers were killed in Israeli air strikes on military installations in the Islamic republic, reported Reuters. Follow LIVE updates here. Demonstrators wave flags of Iran, Lebanese Hezbollah, and pictures of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israel rally in Tehran on October 24, 2024.(AFP) “The army of…
