Iranian musician, 30, is arrested and charged over claims he let women sing and dance in online art video Mehdi Rajabian, 30, was summoned to the Revolutionary Court of Sari Tuesday He’s been in & out of Tehran’s Evin prison since 2013 for anti-regime crimes ‘I did an interview about a new album featuring female … Read more
Iranian newspaper is shut down for reporting ‘true’ death toll from covid is 20 times higher than official count Iran shut down the Jahan-e Sanat publication on Sunday following the interview Mohammadreza Mahboubfar said officials had only reported 5% of the real tolls Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari rejected Mahboubfar’s remarks and said he … Read more
His iconic photographs of the SAS storming the Iranian embassy won him an award – but Dave Parker might easily have missed it. As a budding Fleet Street photographer when the siege happened in 1980, he was also trying to cover his patch at Heathrow Airport, and only agreed last minute to do a ‘shift’ … Read more
The January U.S. drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday. The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on … Read more
At least nineteen people were killed and six injured on Tuesday in an explosion at a medical clinic in the north of the Iranian capital Tehran, Fars news agency reported, quoting a state official. The blast was triggered by a gas leak, Tehran Deputy Governor Hamid Reza Goudarzi told state television. It was initially reported … Read more
Iranian star of Oscar-winner The Salesman is given five-month jail sentence for ‘propaganda’ after posting a video of morality police attacking a woman for not wearing a hijab Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti starred in 2017 Oscar winner The Salesman She has been sentenced to five months in prison for ‘propaganda activities’ Her jail term was … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II may have played an important but unwitting role in the coup against Iran’s prime minister because of a muddled telegram, newly-discovered documents have revealed. Communications found in Washington DC’s archives show bungling US officials accidentally told the Shah of Iran that the monarch had urged him to stay in his country to … Read more
Chinese and Iranian hackers target personal email accounts of staffers working on presidential campaigns for Joe Biden and Donald Trump, but Google insists there are ‘no signs of compromise’ Google reported attempted attacks on presidential campaign staffers Hackers from China targets the personal emails of Joe Biden staffers While hackers from Iran went after the emails … Read more
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s husband fears she will be sent back to Iranian jail when lockdown ends after her temporary release during coronavirus crisis Richard Ratcliffe renewed his call for the Government to get his wife back to UK His family have been granted brief respite, speaking to Nazanin over Skype But he says that he is … Read more
First of five Iranian tanker crosses into Venezuela’s economic zone to bring South American country gasoline as US decides NOT to intercept vessel The oil tanker Fortune was welcomed by Venezuelan officials who celebrated the growing relationship with Iran Russ Dallen, head of Caracas Capital Markets, confirmed the ship’s location using tracing technology The Clavel, … Read more