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Russia continues to attack civilian targets in Ukraine, at times using Iranian-made drones. Experts tell VOA that Russia may be turning to Iran and North Korea for military supplies because it is running out of its own. VOA Senior Diplomatic Correspondent Cindy Saine reports Source link
The Biden administration is postponing a series of military meetings with allies in the Middle East, stoking concerns in Congress that the United States is shying away from confronting Iran’s regional terrorism network. The United States-Gulf Cooperation Council Working Group, a regional alliance that includes Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern allies, was scheduled to […]
Protesters set their hijabs on fire while marching down a street on Oct. 1, 2022 in Tehran, Iran. Getty Images The Iranian people want to cast off unjust laws enforced by the country’s religious dictators and so called “morality police” who use their version of Islam as a weapon to oppress women and maintain […]
Can soccer change the world? Mahmood Ebrahimzadeh, an Iranian international who played for his country in the Fifa World Cup, believes it can. Ebrahimzadeh is one of a network of retired Iranian soccer players now living in exile and urging global support for the uprising currently rocking the country’s theocratic regime. The group is preparing […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 6 (Reuters) – The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on seven Iranian officials over the shutdown of internet access and the crackdown on peaceful protesters following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality police. The nationwide unrest sparked by Amini’s death has spiraled into the biggest challenge to […]
“From Beirut to Tehran, one revolution that does not die,” people chanted on the streets of Beirut during a wave of protests against Lebanon’s corrupt politicians in October 2019. It was catchy, it rhymed in Arabic, and it was an expression of a surprising new sense of solidarity among members of a young generation connected […]
Oct 1 (Reuters) – Siamak Namazi, an Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for nearly seven years on espionage-related charges rejected by Washington as baseless, has been allowed out of Tehran’s Evin prison on a one-week furlough, his lawyer said on Saturday. Separately, his father and former United Nations official Baquer Namazi, who was also convicted […]
An American citizen was killed on Wednesday during a series of Iran-orchestrated missile strikes in Iraq, the State Department confirmed on Thursday. “We can confirm that a U.S. citizen was killed as a result of a rocket attack in the Iraqi Kurdistan region yesterday, but due to privacy considerations I don’t have any further comments […]
CNN — Iranian Americans are staging demonstrations across the United States this weekend in solidarity with ongoing protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman who collapsed while in custody of morality police. “Join us in solidarity and be the . . .
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in his first U.S. media interview, said that the Biden administration’s promise to adhere to a new nuclear agreement was “meaningless” without guarantees that the United States would not again unilaterally withdraw from the deal in the future. “If it’s a good deal and fair deal, we would be serious . […]