Reports

  Student Movement has received information that indicates contradictory to President Rouhani’s claims about the decreasing trend of the spread of coronavirus and its casualties, the rate of spread of the virus is still increasing in most provinces. According to the information, there have been so far at least 7065 …

Iran reported 117 additional fatalities due to the novel coronavirus on Monday, pushing the death toll in the country to 2, 757, a health official said on Monday. Iran’s state TV reported Kianoush Jahanpour, a spokesman for the Health Ministry, as saying that 3,186 new cases have tested positive for …

The U.S. imposed new sanctions against 20 individuals and entities tied to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) over the group’s support for the militia in Iraq. According to the Hill, the State Department announced on Thursday that the sanctions are meant to punish efforts to “violate Iraqi sovereignty and …

A team of Canadian lawyers is suing the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, and several high-ranking commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on behalf of the family members of Ukrainian plane crash victims. According to Reuters, the legal team has asked for $1.1 billion …

A leaked recording of an exchange between an Iranian air-traffic controller and an Iranian pilot purports to show that authorities immediately knew a missile had downed a Ukrainian jetliner after takeoff from Tehran, killing all 176 people aboard, despite days of denials by the Islamic Republic. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy …

US Treasury Department announced that it has added Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization and its president Ali Akbar Salehi to the list of sanctions on Thursday. According to Reuters, the sanctions will impact Iran’s nuclear program since the organization oversees the program’s operations including the purchase of parts and equipment. Russian, …

 Mahla Shahkhajeh, a Ph.D. student in industrial engineering, had planned to study at Iowa State University. She was deported to Iran in December. (CNN)They left Iran with valid visas in hand. But hours after landing in the US, they were forced to turn back on flights they never expected to …

Russia fears an escalation between Iran and Israel and wants to avoid it at any cost. On January 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin travelled to Israel to attend the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by Soviet forces. This was only his third official trip to the …

Authorities in the eastern province of Shandong have detained a Hui Muslim poet and author after he tweeted about the incarceration, surveillance and persecution of Chinese Muslims, both in Xinjiang and across China, RFA has learned. Poet Cui Haoxin—known by his pen name An Ran—was detained by state security police …

In the dusty suburbs of the Kyrghyz capital, Bishkek, hordes of shoppers are swarming over the wholesale market of Dordoy. To the outsider, this – the largest such market in Central Asia – may look like a chaotic maze of containers and shanties. Narrow alleys are hectic and bustling; access …