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Iran Says Russia’s Use Of Air Base Has Ended ‘For Now’

RFL/RE – Iran’s Foreign Ministry says Russia’s use of a military base in Hamadan for striking targets in Syria has ended for now. Foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi made the announcement in an August 22 news briefing. “Russia has no base in Iran and is not stationed here. They conducted this [operation] and it is finished for now,” Ghasemi was …

German exports to Iran soar after removal of sanctions

Reuters – German exports to Iran, mostly machines and equipment, jumped in the first half of the year following the removal of international sanctions against the Islamic Republic, official trade data showed on Monday. Exports to Iran surged by 15 percent year-on-year in the first six months of 2016 to 1.13 billion euros ($1.3 billion), the Federal Statistics Office said. …

Iran’s Olympic squad finishes 25th with 8 medals

mehrnews – The Iranian sports caravan managed to collect eight medals in 2016 Rio Olympic Games in order to finish 25th in the final standings table. Having attracted more than 10 thousand athletes, the 31st edition of Summer Olympics was convened from August 05-21 in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro while the closing ceremony was held on Monday morning …

Marivan’s Forests in Fire

HRANA News Agency – Forests of Marivan, close to De-Reh-Veh-Ran and He-Najiran villages are in fire since last Monday. The association of Sabz-Chiya has requested help to control the fire. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), around one thousand hectares of one the most un-touched areas of De-Reh-Veh-Ran and He-Najiran villages has turned to ashes …

Banks become Iran’s economic nightmare

PayvandNews – According to the Central Bank of Iran, the financial sector has about $260 billion of liquidity. cartoon by Keyvan Zargari, Iranian daily Shahrvand The government of President Hassan Rouhani started his tenure in office with a promise to put Iran’s economic boat back on an even keel, but many analysts are of the opinion that the administration now …

iranintl -A hijab enforcer at a metro station in Shiraz, southern Iran, sexually assaulted a nine-ye…

iranintl – Prominent politicians in Iran weighed in on the issue of election Wednesday, with t…

iranintl – The UK’s Labour Party intends to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terroris…

iranintl – Several student organizations, women’s and youth groups are adding their voic…

iranintl – The US does not expect Iran’s June 28 presidential election to result in any …

iranintl – An Iranian dissident escaped an assassination attempt in the Netherlands earlier th…

Iranwire – Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the current speaker of Iran’s parliament and presid…

Iranwire – Fatemeh Sepehari, a political prisoner held in Mashhad’s Vakilabad prison, ha…

gatestoneinstitute.org – After six months of Iran using its Houthi Jihadis to impose a blockad…

VOA – Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday threw his weight behind reformist c…

iranintl – Observers note that amid otherwise uneventful presidential debates, a contentious i…

iranintl – Israel and the US are set to reconvene a joint meeting on Iran next month, mere day…

iranintl – This month, three Iraqi Shiite militant groups, backed by the IRGC, announced their…

iranintl – The US says the Iranian Judiciary’s recent decision to overturn the death sen…

iranintl – Israel’s defense minister on Tuesday called the Islamic Republic “the g…

Iranwire – Iran’s presidential candidates Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Saeed Jalili have…

Iranwire – Severe flooding has hit the northern Iranian city of Savadkoh, resulting in widespr…

Iranwire – Nermin Pirhaman, a mother of two from Sanandaj in Kurdistan Province, was killed by…

Iranwire – A victim of the Islamic Republic’s crackdown on the November 2019 protests ha…

Iranwire – In an act of defiance, political prisoners in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison …

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