Iran’s Golab Adineh wins Best Actress Award at Beijing Film Festival
PayvandNews - Iranian actress Golab Adineh won Best Actress Award for 'Abji' (The Sis) directed by Marjan Ashrafizadeh at the 7th Beijing…
Month: April 2017
Germany’s Volkswagen picks local partner in bid to cement foothold in Iran
PayvandNews - Germany's Volkswagen says it has picked a local Iranian auto company to represent it in one of the…
Shirin Ebadi: ‘Outside of Iran I knew I’d be more useful. I could speak’
theguardian- Of all the places one might encounter Shirin Ebadi, Tallahassee should not be one. I was to meet her…
Advocates For Father And Son Imprisoned In Iran Appeal To UN For Help
huffingtonpost― A lawyer representing two American citizens imprisoned in Iran appealed to the United Nations on Tuesday to intervene on…
U.S. Prosecutors Outline ‘High-Level’ Conspiracy To Evade Iran Sanctions
RFL/RE - U.S. prosecutors said they will show that a Turkish-Iranian gold trader coordinated an illegal scheme to help Iran…
UAE soldier ‘dies after confrontation with Iranian ship’
Al-Arabia - A UAE source has said that an Emirati soldier was "martyred after an Iranian boat entered Emirati territory."…
IRAN: MAN ARRESTED AT 15 FACES IMMINENT EXECUTION: PEYMAN BARANDAH
Amnesty - Peyman Barandah, who was 15 years old at the time of his arrest, is due to be executed…
Student Arrested by Intelligence Ministry Held in Solitary Confinement Without Charge
CHRI - Payam Shakiba, a political science graduate student at Tehran's Allameh Tabataba'i University, has been held in solitary confinement…
Swedish Resident Held in Evin Prison for One Year Denied Lawyer for Third Time
CHRI - Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-born Swedish resident detained in Evin Prison since April 2016, has been denied a lawyer…
Why region should prepare for long Saudi-Iranian confrontation
Al-monitor - Ties between Iran and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) have been strained for years. Incidents such as the…