By Jubin Katiraie

It was reported on Wednesday that the Iranian government was holding a second French academic. The disclosure adds to the international outcry over the questionable detention of Fariba Adelkhah, an anthropologist at Sciences Po University in Paris, who was arrested in Iran.

By Pooya Stone

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani pointed in a speech on 16 October to issues which indicate that Tehran is failing with his agenda of expansion of 'global terror’ and the 'export of the revolution’ in the Middle East, analysts say.

By Pooya Stone

On 17 October 2019, the United States Department of State released a new report on ‘terrorist’ activities by Iran during its talks with world powers over the 2015 nuclear agreement known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

By Jubin Katiraie

In all countries across the globe, the education system is responsible to educate and train next generations destined take the wheel of the nation in the near future. In this regard, it is expected that Iran’s Ministry of Education play a vital role in the fate of the country.The Iranian authorities, however, display behavior going completely against this goal.

By Jubin Katiraie

The top United States official in charge of policy on Iran on Wednesday said the U.S. policy of maximum pressure was intended to “deprive the Iranian regime of the money it needs to support its destabilizing activities”.

By Pooya Stone

During the two weeks after protests first swept through Iraq, Iraqis faced a brutal crackdown launched by the militias and security forces heavily supported by Iran, which killed more than 180 Iraqi protesters. The protesters said the promise of reforms was just an illusion.

By Pooya Stone

A delegation of the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) joined a UK Parliament cross-party panel of MPs and Peers for a conference on Iran in the House of Commons on Thursday, 17 October.

By Jubin Katiraie

After roughly 3,500 women were admitted to Tehran’s Azadi Stadium for Thursday’s World Cup qualifier between the Iranian and Cambodian national teams, many international news outlets reported upon the “end” of the Iranian regime’s nearly 40-year ban on female attendance at male sporting events.

By Pooya Stone

In Iran lakes, wetlands and forests are fast disappearings. The dirty air restricts the quality of life. Sandstorms occur; entire tracts of land become barren desert landscapes. The water shortage is due to both government mismanagement and climate change.

By Jubin Katiraie

Both the Arab League and the Gulf Cooperation Council have already classified the Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

By Jubin Katiraie

The United States carried out a secret cyber operation against Iran after the September 14 attacks on Saudi Arabia's oil facilities, which Washington and Riyadh blame on Tehran, two US officials have told Reuters.

By Pooya Stone

The International Monetary Fund expects Iran's economy to contract by a massive 9.5% in 2019.

By Jubin Katiraie

The Iranian supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in a speech at Imam Hossein Military University in Tehran, ordered the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to increase weapons’ proliferation. Reuters reported on October 13.

By Jubin Katiraie

With each passing day, the consequences of sanctions against the Iranian regime become more visible. The withdrawal of Chinese state oil firms from a $5-billion deal to develop the Iranian gas field was the latest event in this context.

By Pooya Stone

Two children in a Baluchistan village drowned while hauling water from a pond, HRANA news agency reported on Thursday, 10 October. The victims, Sara and Bisma, were from the Dashtiari village.

By Jubin Katiraie

Despite plundering people’s properties, Iranian banks affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the police, the Basij and the army have rising debts, according to Iran experts. As such, the country’s credit council and the three branches of government have decided to merge all banks into the SEPAH bank.