Category: 1. Iran

Oil steadied after closing at the highest in almost six weeks as President Donald Trump threatened to penalize India for buying Russian crude and his administration tightened a crackdown on supplies from Iran.

West Texas Intermediate traded above…

On 22 June this year, seven B2 Stealth bombers flew on a 37-hour round trip from bases in the US to drop 14 30,000lb bombs on two nuclear facilities in Iran. A third was attacked with cruise missiles fired from a submarine, possibly in the…

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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Russia keeps bombing Ukraine, including unmistakably civilian targets, and President Donald Trump reacts by…

“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…

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…

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…