Iranian Activists Detained For Celebrating Persian Emperor
RFL/RE - Iranian authorities have detained several organizers of a gathering attended by thousands marking the birth of the pre-Islamic…
Month: October 2016
Iran’s Kish Invex 2016 to host 30 foreign companies
PayvandNews - The 3rd Kish International Exhibition of Exchange, Banking, Insurance and Privatization and the 8th International Exhibition for Presenting…
Iran unveils 4 biotechnology medicines expected to decrease outflow by $600M
PayvandNews - An Iranian pharmaceutical company has unveiled four domestically produced biotechnology medicines, leading to $600 million decrease in flow…
Iran death penalty: Justice minister calls for fewer executions
BBC - Iran's justice minister is looking for an "effective punishment" for criminals instead of execution, according to local media.…
Afghan Taliban reveal relations with Iran
Al-Arabia - Mullah Zabihullah, the official spokesman of the "Afghan Taliban" and the second man in the movement revealed the…
Europe Capitalizes on the Iran Deal
PayvandNews - As Washington think-tanks, with some notable exceptions, keep churning out papers advising the next American president to double down on containing Iran,…
EU’s Mogherini discusses Syria crisis In Tehran: Iran rules out military solution
PayvandNews - President Hassan Rouhani has reiterated Iran's stance that the crisis in Syria should be resolved through "political" means…
U.S. Prosecutors Charge Two With Smuggling Military Items To Iran
RFL/RE - U.S. prosecutors have charged two men in connection with a plot to smuggle millions of dollars of military…
Mother Who Founded Group Memorializing Massacred Political Prisoners of 1988 Summoned to Court After Flight Ban
Iranhumanrights.org - They are the ones who have to answer questions, not us." Mansoureh Behkish has been banned from leaving…
Call for Iran to Release Imprisoned British-Iranians Heats Up As Families and MPs Petition UK Government
Iranhumanrights.org - The families of two British-Iranian dual citizens who have been imprisoned in Iran without due process have delivered…