Embattled Health Chief Misses Key Meeting as Iran’s Covid Death Rate Soars
Iranwire - Outgoing Iranian health minister Saeed Namaki is understood to have missed a meeting of the National Coronavirus Headquarters…
Month: August 2021
Two Kolbars Hospitalized After Border Guards Open Fire
Iranwire - Two kolbars have been hospitalized after being shot on the Iran-Iraq border in the latest in a string…
Taliban Assures Iranian Foreign Ministry its Diplomats are Safe
Iranwire - In one of Iran’s first official responses to the Taliban’s shock incursion into Afghanistan’s southern provinces, Foreign Ministry…
Human Rights Defender Atena Daemi on Indefinite Hunger Strike
Iran Human Rights (IHR) - Prominent imprisoned human rights defender, Atena Daemi has begun an indefinite hunger strike in protest…
Intel: US sanctions oil broker reportedly linked to Iran’s Quds Force
Al-Monitor - The United States unveiled terrorism-related sanctions on an oil-smuggling operation with alleged links to Iran’s powerful Islamic Revolutionary…
Russian, UK envoys ignite fury in Iran with ‘inappropriate’ restaged photo
Al-Monitor - Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Russian and UK ambassadors in Tehran after a controversial photo showed the two…
Iran continues to be rocked by protests, and the COVID crisis
nufdiran.org - Iran continues to be rocked by protests, the COVID crisis caused by Khamenei's ban of the American and…
Novices, Ideologues and Terrorists: Raisi’s Cabinet Revealed
Iranwire - Yesterday Ebrahim Raisi released a final, full list of his proposed new cabinet members to the Iranian parliament.…
Prosecutors Describe Prison ‘Corridor of Death’ at Hamid Nouri Trial
Iranwire - On the second day of the criminal trial of ex-Iranian prison official Hamid Nouri in Sweden, prosecutors painted a harrowing…
Photo-gate at the Russian Embassy and the Tehran Conference of 1943
Iranwire - British diplomat Simon Shercliff was appointed as ambassador to Iran earlier this month. He seemed to be off…