Category: 1. Iran

Pars Today – Japan’s ambassador to Iran, underscoring the two countries’ broad cultural commonalities, expressed admiration for Tehran’s modernity and the grandeur of Isfahan, and compared Iranian hospitality with Japanese…

Pars Today – The Financial Times reported that Donald Trump’s goal in imposing an oil blockade on Venezuela is to bring about regime change, but that this “oil war” is unlikely to succeed.

In a report on Trump’s oil…

Pars Today – Iran’s foreign minister described closer cooperation between Tehran and Moscow as an effective step in confronting illegal Western sanctions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi wrote on the social media…

For a moment, it looked like President Trump and China President Xi Jinping had buried the hatchet at APEC. 

Then, just as eyes turned away from the Korean summit, Xi picked up an ax.  

Trump celebrated his high-profile breakthrough with 

Iran has perfected the high-volume, low-cost suicide drone with the Shahed-136, a small piston-engined one way attack drone used by Iranian and Russian forces, according to a report by the website, maritime-executive. Thousands have been built…

Catherine Perez-Shakdam, a French-born Jewish woman, offers a portrait of a political system she says is driven less by confidence than by a fear of collapse.

She says she gained rare access to Iran’s political and ideological circles after…

The leaders decided early on Friday ‍to borrow cash on capital markets to fund Ukraine’s defence against Russia rather than use frozen Russian assets, diplomats noted.

“We have a deal. Decision to provide 90 billion euros [$105.5bn] of…

So why have millions of Iranians chosen to endure the hardship of life far from home rather than remain under the Islamic Republic?

This report draws on official United Nations figures for Iranian refugees and asylum seekers, which begin in 1980…