by admin | Sep 16, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By Associated Press WASHINGTON: The U.S. House overwhelmingly approved measures Tuesday targeting Iran for its human rights record and placing restrictions on the country’s ability to import or export its expanding arsenal of weapons. The measures would...
by admin | Mar 14, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP TEHRAN: Six months ago this week, Mahsa Amini was arrested for allegedly flouting Iran’s strict dress code for women. Within days she was dead, sparking the country’s biggest protests in years. The 22-year ethnic Kurd became a household name...
by admin | Jan 17, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] Some 5,000 people marched Monday to the EU parliament in the French city of Strasbourg in support of Iran’s anti-government protesters as Paris prepared an Eiffel Tower tribute to Mahsa Amini, whose death in September prompted the demonstrations.The...
by admin | Jan 10, 2023 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP TEHRAN: Iranian activist Faezeh Hashemi, daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been sentenced to five years over “propaganda” and acts against national security, her lawyer told AFP on Monday. Hashemi was arrested in the...
by admin | Dec 27, 2022 | Worldnews
[ad_1] By AFP TEHRAN: Iranian football legend Ali Daei, who has backed protests following Mahsa Amini’s death, said Monday an airplane from Tehran to Dubai had been rerouted and his family ordered off. Protests have gripped Iran since the September 16 death of...