White House Delays Issuing Revamped Executive Order On Immigration
RFL/RE - The White House said on February 22 that it is pushing back until next week the release of…
Month: February 2017
Iran sends team to Saudi Arabia for talks on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage
Al-Arabia - Iran said Wednesday it has sent a team for talks in Saudi Arabia on the next annual pilgrimage…
Khamenei threatens Palestinians: ‘Continue the resistance’
Al-Arabia - The supreme leader of Iran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged the Palestinians to "continue the resistance" on…
Iran Sends Military Students to Syrian Front
VOA - Iran is increasingly using Syrian battlefields as a proving ground for fresh military officers in training, according to…
IRAN: UK-IRANIAN CHARITY WORKER NEEDS MEDICAL CARE: NAZANIN ZAGHARI-RATCLIFFE
Amnesty - British-Iranian charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is suffering with severe arm, neck and back pain and needs urgent hospitalization.…
Can Iran’s Khamenei rule out ‘national reconciliation’?
Al-monitor - In a speech Feb. 15, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directly addressed the idea of "national reconciliation"…
Is Ahmadinejad defying Khamenei’s ‘advice’ to abandon ambitions?
AL-monitor - On Feb. 20, former Iranian Vice President Hamid Baghaei announced his intention to run in the country's May…
Briefing Report: Tracking Twitter’s Growing Popularity in Iran
Iranhumanrights.org - Twitter's growth in Iran can be tracked through three distinct stages; when it was banned in 2009, during…
Ahmad Montazeri, Son Of Top Iranian Dissident Cleric, Taken Into Custody
RFL/RE - The son of one of the founding fathers of Iran's Islamic republic has been arrested to serve a…
Top Iranian Professor at Zabol University Sentenced to Imprisonment and Flogging
Radiozamaneh - A highly regarded professor in Zabol University in southeastern Iran has been sentenced to imprisonment and flogging for…