On Tuesday, Iran’s Parliament (Majlis) voted to pass a law that allows the Islamic Republic’s government to seek at least $68 billion in “material or moral damages” from the United States for 63 years of “hostile action and crime.”
Iran will host the Islamic Republic’s third annual Holocaust denial cartoon contest this weekend, just over a week after the world somberly remembered the 6 million Jewish lives that were murdered by Hitler during World War II, and four short months after the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani publicly opposed North Korea’s nuclear program this week during a historic three-day summit between him and South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye in Tehran, Iran.
Iran has sued the United States at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), attacking the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision that Iran must pay compensation to the victims of terrorist attacks it sponsored.
An Iranian woman was reportedly publicly flogged 100 times on Wednesday in the Iranian state of Isfahan for an alleged extramarital affair four years ago.
Reuters took a long look at the rocky relationship between Russia and Iran this week, noting that a stronger alliance between the two nations always seems to fall apart for one reason or another. For example, one Iranian diplomat described personality clashes between the Iranian and Russian leaders by saying, “Rouhani and Putin don’t get along that great.”
During an address to workers in Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei accused the United States of undermining its nuclear deal with Iran.
The New York Times reports: TEHRAN — Anger is building among even Iran’s staunchest defenders of the historic nuclear agreement with the United States, after a recent decision by the American Supreme Court allowing relatives of victims of a 1983 bombing to sue Tehran for $2 billion in compensation from frozen Iranian funds.
NEW YORK (AFP) — The United States insisted that foreign banks should feel free to do business with Iran after Tehran’s compliance with a nuclear deal with world powers.
The Jerusalem Post reports: Iranian media reported on Monday that President Hassan Rouhani requested to remove the words “Death to Israel” from the ballistic missiles belonging to his country.
On Sunday, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani spoke at National Army Day parade in Tehran, where he vowed to defend Muslim nations against terrorism from the Islamic State and the Jewish state of Israel, commonly referred to as the Zionist entity.
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday vowed to defend Muslim countries against terrorism and Israel while insisting that its neighbors should not feel threatened.
TEL AVIV – The Iranian daily Resalat published an article claiming that the U.S. is planning to implement a series of additional Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreements aimed at eradicating Iran.
The presidents of Russia and Iran agreed on Monday to step up bilateral contacts, including over the Syrian conflict, in which both countries are allies of President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian government and Western-backed opposition are currently holding U.N.-mediated peace
Contents: Iran and Pakistan agree to open border crossings and improve trade; Iran and Pakistan attempt to erase 40 years of sectarian hostility
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is expected to visit Pakistan this week to discuss how to improve relations between the two nations and strengthen economic ties, Islamabad’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced.
Despite numerous concessions and a historic treaty that will almost guarantee a pathway to acquiring a nuclear bomb, the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei says the U.S. is still fundamentally hostile towards his nation and has warned Iranians not to trust their old enemy, “the Great Satan.”
TEL AVIV – The Saudi daily Al-Jazirah published an article Tuesday saying that Iran has replaced Israel as the number one enemy of the Gulf states, and anyone who disagrees is a traitor. The article, authored by Saudi journalist Muhammad Aal Al-Sheikh and translated by MEMRI, argues that Iran is exploiting the Palestinian issue as a pretext for “infiltrating deep into the Arab world, shredding its Arab fabric, and dragging Arab society into supporting its expansionary plan.”
Iran conducted another round of illegal ballistic missile tests on Tuesday, and they may prove to be an even more egregious violation of sanctions than the launch in October. Iran openly defied the United Nations and United States — which an Iranian general described as “our main enemy” — and threatened to walk away from President Obama’s nuclear deal.
The art of post-election spin is alive and well in Iran, where both reform-minded “moderates” and “hardliners” claimed victory in the parliamentary elections.
Iran is holding important parliamentary elections, with turnout reportedly high enough to merit extended deadlines for voting. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crowed that high turnout would be a show of Iranian strength that would frustrate its enemies, by underscoring Iran’s determination to back its hardline Islamist rulers.
In Iran, “moderates” and “reformists” are said to have fallen in love with the controversial encrypted chat app Telegram during an important parliamentary election.
TEL AVIV – Iranian clerics urged worshipers to vote for members of parliament that are hostile to the U.S. and have “Death to America” written “on their foreheads,” AFP reported.
More than a month after Iran captured two U.S. Navy patrol boats with ten sailors onboard January 12, there is still very little information on what transpired. Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Senator John McCain (Ariz-R), has given President Barack Obama an ultimatum: either provide details of an investigation by March 1 or he will subpoena the sailors to testify before Congress.
Iran celebrated the 37th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution on Thursday, with plenty of anti-America, anti-Israeli, and anti-Western sentiment on hand, beyond re-enacting the capture of 10 American sailors in January.
The Jerusalem Post reports: As Iranians held reenactments of the captivity of US Navy soldiers by Iran last month, President Hassan Rouhani called for political unity in Tehran on Thursday marking the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. A video of
The U.S. Navy has condemned Iran’s new propaganda film, in which a U.S. sailor is shown weeping in captivity, as “outrageous and unacceptable.” Meanwhile, a defiant Iran is re-enacting the capture of the American sailors on January 10 as street theater, during celebrations marking the anniversary of the Iranian revolution.
Contents: Turkey blocks tens of thousands of Aleppo Syria residents from entering Turkey; As Iran’s election approaches, generational conflict becomes vicious; Iran’s historic struggle between Principlists and Reformists
The Iranian regime’s growing disdain for human rights were the subject of large protests in Paris this week that coincided with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s arrival there.
In an email to top Vatican personnel and shared with his network of influential friends in Washington DC and around the world, Leonard Leo has blasted Pope Francis and the Vatican for the cozy photo that was allowed to be taken of Francis with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that ran in newspapers around the world.
Paris has asked its European partners to consider the possibility of imposing new sanctions on Tehran after the recent missile tests conducted by the Islamic Republic. The news emerged just as Iran’s Supreme Leader Hassan Rouhani begins his two-day visit
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the website for Ali Khamenei, the dictator of the Islamic Republic of Iran, posted a video in which he expresses doubts about the Holocaust.
Out of respect for Iranian President Hassam Rouhani, Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had a series of nude statues at the Capitoline Museum completely covered for the leader’s visit Tuesday, which has a number of Italians hopping mad. These were
China has sought to take major advantage of the lifting of international sanctions against Iran, agreeing to trade deals with the Ayatollah’s Islamic Republic worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
Precisely 24 hours after Saturday’s hostage for prisoner swap between America and Iran took place, news broke that three Americans were kidnapped in Baghdad, Iraq, by Iran-backed militias.
According to a report at Tasnim News, Chinese President Xi Jinping will make his first visit to Iran on January 22, at the invitation of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Hassan Rouhani, Iran’s figurehead President who serves the interests of Ayatollah Khamenei, delivered a verbal tirade against the Saudi government on Tuesday after Riyadh executed a prominent Shiite cleric on New Year’s Eve.
The latest news from that most trustworthy of nuclear partners, Iran, has secret police thugs beating a Christian convert and dragging him off into the snow, while his family unsuccessfully pleaded to at least give him some warm clothing.
State Department Spokesman John Kirby on Monday provided a boastful recap of his cabinet’s achievements in 2015 and highlighted “bringing peace [and] security” to war-torn Syria as one of its wins this past year.
Iran continues to conduct missile tests in violation of United Nations sanctions, and appears to be disinterested in how the international community views their legitimacy.
