The United States on July 30 imposed sanctions on a major shipping network controlled by the son of a top aide to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in what the Treasury Department said was its “largest Iran-related action”…
Category: 1. Iran
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Authoritarian states operating without impunity to silence dissidents in UK, report finds | Politics News
Authoritarian states are operating without impunity in attempts to silence dissidents on UK soil – and the government needs to take urgent action, parliamentarians have warned.
Transnational repression has increased in recent years,…
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Why Trump is failing on Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran.
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Russia keeps bombing Ukraine, including unmistakably civilian targets, and President Donald Trump reacts by…
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warns of shifting battlefield with Israel
“The geography of the response and the battlefield may change, and Iran’s reactions will be more crushing than previously observed,” state media outlet Mehr news cited the spokesman of the sprawling military organization as saying.
“If the…
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Iranian authorities tortured British couple in prison, source says
Lindsay and Craig Foreman were recently moved to the Gharchak Women’s Prison and the Greater Tehran Central Penitentiary, added the source familiar with the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity citing security concerns.
The couple had…
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Sanctioning Facilitators of Iran’s Petroleum and Petrochemical Trade
Today, the United States is taking decisive action to disrupt the Iranian regime’s ability to fund its destabilizing activities, including its nuclear program, support for terrorist groups, and oppression of its own people.
The Department of…
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US sanctions Shamkhani ‘shipping empire’ for moving Iranian oil
More than 50 individuals and entities were designated, and over 50 vessels identified, in what the US Treasury called its largest Iran-related action since 2018.
“The Shamkhani family’s shipping empire highlights how the Iranian regime elites…
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Top Iranian academic urges UN Secretary General to uphold science, nations’ sovereignty
TEHRAN – Mohammad Reza Mokhber Dezfouli, President of the Academy of Sciences of the Islamic Republic of Iran, in a letter to António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nation, has called for the condemnation of imposed Israeli war…
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US blacklists Iranian oil tycoon to with ties to Russian shadow fleet – Politico
US blacklists Iranian oil tycoon to with ties to Russian shadow fleet Politico
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