Will the Western feminists who don hijabs on World Hijab Day in solidarity with Muslim women who are supposedly oppressed in the West for wearing the hijab speak up for the right of Shohreh Bayat not to wear it? Of course not. “Iranian chess...
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Bending under the pressure from the Trump administration, major EU states have taken yet another step away from the Iran nuclear deal, say academics, suggesting that it's unlikely that Tehran will engage in new nuclear negotiations with the same...
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Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump on Friday warned Iran’s clerical Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be “careful with his words” after the ayatollah gave a fiery sermon against the US and Europe on Friday in Tehran. ...
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The Iranian military has admitted to unintentionally shooting down a Ukrainian Boeing on 8 January near Tehran's airport, killing all 176 people on board. According to the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10...
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TEHRAN, Iran — Iran’s supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a “clown” who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will “push a poisonous dagger” into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in...
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After the killing of top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani and his associates in Baghdad in a drone attack, tensions between Tehran and Washington flared up. Iran responded to the assassination with strikes on Iraqi bases, housing US troops, which...
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Iranians are gathering for a rally to commemorate those killed in the fatal crash of a Ukrainian Boeing that was shot down by an Iranian missile earlier in January near Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, killing all 176 people on board....
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UK envoy to Iran Robert Macaire was detained days ago due to his alleged participation in unsanctioned protests in Tehran over the downing of a Ukrainian Boeing 737, but was released 15 minutes later. The ambassador claims that he only briefly...
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Iran’s supreme leader said President Trump is a ‘clown’ who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will “push a poisonous dagger” into their backs, as he struck a defiant tone in his first Friday sermon in Tehran in eight...
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BREAKING -- AP/TEHRAN: “Top Iran leader: Trump is a ‘clown’ who will betray Iranians”: “Iran’s supreme leader said President Donald Trump is a ‘clown’ who only pretends to support the Iranian people but will ‘push a poisonous...
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"No, It's Not Over!" - Reading Sun Tzu In Tehran
Authored by Alastair Crooke via The Strategic Culture Foundation,
Iran is not done. General Hajizadeh, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, said in a briefing yesterday that the strike...
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif told his Ukrainian counterpart Vadym Prystaiko in phone talks on 16 January that Tehran was ready to hand over the bodies of Ukrainians who died in the Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane to Kiev,...
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New Delhi (Sputnik): Ever since tensions between US and Iran flared up two weeks ago, India maintained that it would like the situation to de-escalate and has been in touch with Tehran and other key players in the region, including the United Arab...
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GENOA (Sputnik) - It is highly unlikely that a case on the United States' killing of Iran’s top military commander, Qasem Soleimani, will end up in the International Criminal Court (ICC) despite Tehran's plans go down this path, Toby Cadman,...
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On Tuesday, Britain, France and Germany launched the 2015 Iran nuclear deal’s dispute resolution mechanism, which they said was partly prompted by concerns that Tehran might be less than a year away from developing a nuclear weapon.
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The British envoy was briefly detained in the Iranian capital on Saturday and accused of helping to organise unlawful protests after the Iranian government acknowledged its responsibility for accidentally shooting down a Ukrainian airliner amid...
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On Monday, Canadian Transportation Safety Board (TSB) Senior Investigator Natacha Van Themsche said that two investigators were on their way to Tehran as part of the international team of investigators working under the guidance of Iran's Aircraft...
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Three EU countries on Tuesday said they were launching a dispute mechanism against Iran under the 2015 nuclear deal, accusing Tehran of repeatedly violating the accord while insisting they remained committed to the agreement. The move by Britain,...
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The Boeing 737-800 plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed soon after takeoff from a Tehran airport last week, on 8 January - the same day that Iran struck US bases in Iraq with missiles. The Iranian military admitted to...
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U.S. President Donald Trump drew both criticism and a small measure of credit after taking to Twitter to chastise Iranian leaders over press restrictions in the Islamic Republic, whose recent acknowledgment that it mistakenly shot down a Ukrainian...
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