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Month: November 2016

Death Toll Rises In Iran Train Collision

RFL/RE - Iranian state TV reports that the death toll from a train collision in the country's north-central Semnan Province…

Iraq Blast Claimed By IS Kills More Than 80, Mostly Iranian Pilgrims

RFL/RE - A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State (IS) militants has killed at least 80 people, most of them…

Several reported killed in Iran train collision

Al-Arabia - Two passenger trains collided in Iran's north-central province of Semnan on early Friday, killing several people and injuring…

Northern Iran: Seven Prisoners Executed

Iran Human Rights -Iranian authorities have executed seven prisoners in northern Iran. According a report by the Iranian state-run news…

Why Iran’s private sector hasn’t benefited from privatization

Al-monitor — Privatization in Iran only effectively started in 2001. Five years later, in 2006, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei…

UN Condemns Charges Against Iranian Woman Seeking Missing Relatives

RFL/RE - United Nations human rights experts have called on Iran to end the "harassment" of a woman trying to…

Iran Denies Israeli Claim Of Arms On Commercial Flights

RFL/RE - Iran has denied as baseless and unsubstantiated accusations by Israel that members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps…

IAEA help sought over ‘missing’ Iran nuclear device

AlArabaia - Gulf countries are following up with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on the potential negative effects of…

Iran: responsibility of implementing blinding punishment placed on 11 year old girl

Iran Human Rights - A young girl blinded at the age of four chooses to approve the implementation of her…

Four People Publicly Hanged In Southern Iran

IRAN HUMAN RIGHTS -  Four men were publicly hanged in the Persian Gulf Island of Qeshm, on Wednesday November 23,…