Category: 1. Iran

June 20, 2025

The prosecutor in Esfahan has announced he will prosecute people found walking dogs in the city. That has set off a raft of copycat actions all over Iran so that so far dog owners in at least 21 cities face the threat…

June 20, 2025

The Iranian government is currently carrying out one of its largest-ever expulsion campaigns targeting Afghan refugees, and appears to be driving out far more aliens than the similar Trump anti-foreigners campaign in…

June 20, 2025

The Islamic Republic’s former nuclear chief says Russia and China both restricted Iran’s ability to expand its nuclear program—which would be quite logical if they were suspicious…

Rouzbeh Parsi, 52, longtime head of the Middle East program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, has stepped down after a probe by the group into his links to the Iranian government. The investigation concluded he was…

June 20, 2025

There were stories about how the ultra right was going to mount an effort to oust Majlis Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf (photo) when he came up for re-election in May. But nothing happened. He was re-elected May 26 by…

Two soldiers were killed and another two injured when they ran over a landmine left over from the Iran-Iraq war in Marivan in Kurdistan province. It wasn’t explained if this was a marked field that the soldiers wandered into or…

June 20, 2025

A new Pasdar display designed to educate the populace on the vicissitudes of hell has opened in Gilan province to something less than an…

June 20, 2025

Health Minister Mohammad-Reza Zafarqandi has announced the emigration of nurses, physicians and other medical specialists in the last half of the last Persian year “significantly decreased” compared to the same…