Iranian police special unit commander: Protestors never targeted by firearms
FNA – Commander of the Special Unit of Iran’s Law Enforcement Police Brigadier General Hassan Karami said that his forces are not…
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The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has united Iranians like never before
Foreign Policy | ROHOLLAH FAGHIHI: Grief and anger seized Iranians after the U.S. killing of Gen. Qassem Suleimani last Friday. Enormous numbers of…
Deputy FM to brief Iran MPs on UK envoy’s presence in anti-Gov’t rally
Tasnim – Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Seyed Abbas Araqchi is slated to attend a meeting of the parliament’s National…
UK ambassador leaves Tehran ‘with prior notice’ following arrest drama
Press TV – Britain’s Ambassador to Iran Robert Macaire has left Tehran for London a few days after his brief detention at…
Protests continue in Iran over plane crash
Al-Monitor – Protests have continued for a third night after Iranian officials took responsibility for accidentally shooting down a passenger plane in…
Iran warns UK of severe reaction if it makes ‘new mistakes’: state TV
Reuters – Iran will severely respond if Britain makes “new mistakes,” Iranian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Monday, a day…
Iran’s reaction to Trump’s tweet: Don’t dishonor our language
Press TV – Iran has called President Donald Trump’s bluff on expressing support for Iranian protesters in Farsi just after he threatened to attack…
UK summons Iranian ambassador over envoy’s arrest
Reuters – Britain has summoned the Iranian ambassador to the country to convey its strong objections to the brief arrest of London’s…
Tehran police chief denies shots fired at protesters: Iran state media
Reuters – Police in the Iranian capital did not fire on protesters and officers have been under orders to show restraint, Tehran’s…
UK ambassador arrested while organizing protests in Tehran: Report
Press TV – Reports in the Iranian media say security forces have arrested the British ambassador to the country as he was…
Iran’s judiciary refuses to say how many were killed in November protests
Radio Farda – The spokesman for Iran’s Judiciary has once again evaded responsibility to announce the number of protesters killed during the…
No foreign national arrested during Nov. unrest: official
MNA – Iran’s Prosecutor-General Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has rejected rumors about the arrest of foreign nationals during the recent unrest in the…
Iran is losing sight of its ‘Developmental Vision’
Bourse and Bazaar | Esfandyar Batmanghelidj: On December 11, Iran’s information minister announced via social media that he had a “surprise” to reveal. Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi,…
Iran’s ICT Ministry elucidates latest internet disruptions
Financial Tribune – Disruptions in upstream European connections, plus network connectivity bottlenecks, caused internet disruptions between Dec. 17 and 19, a high-ranking…
Iran detains members of terrorist group in Ahwaz, busts arms shipment in Javanroud
Press TV – Iranian security forces have arrested members of a terrorist group in Ahvaz in Iran’s southwestern province of Khuzestan and…
Police arrests agent of Iran International TV in SW Iran
MNA – Commander of Khuzestan province’s Police Brigadier General Heidar Abbaszadeh announced on Wednesday that an individual has been detained on charges…
Iran listens with open ears to peaceful protesters, but responds to disturbances: Official
Press TV – A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Iran’s vetting body, says the country has always listened “with open ears” to…
Iran seizes haul of US-made weapons meant to be used for riots
Press TV – The Iranian Judiciary says the country’s intelligence forces have seized a haul of American-made weapons in the central city…
Iran starts internet shutdown ahead of possible new protests: report
Reuters – Iranian authorities have shut down mobile internet access to overseas sites in several provinces, an Iranian news agency reported on…
Iranian official denies Ayatollah Khamenei ordered protests crackdown
Bloomberg – A senior official in the office of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has denied a report the supreme leader ordered President…
Envoy slams Reuters for ‘Fake News’ about Iran’s unrest
Tasnim – Iranian Ambassador to London Hamid Baeidinejad vehemently dismissed a report by the Reuters news agency on the death toll of…
IRGC arrests armed rioters in Iran’s Mahshahr
Tasnim – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) said its forces have arrested the rioters who took arms in the recent unrest…
Iran’s year is a Rorschach test
Foreign Policy | Cameron Abadi: 2019 proved the Trump administration’s Iran policy is either a catastrophic failure—or on the verge of success.…
European Parliament’s anti-Iran resolution based on twisted facts: Foreign Ministry
Press TV – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has denounced a resolution passed by the European Parliament, which accuses Tehran of mishandling the recent…
Talk with Iran now. Time is fleeting
The New York Times | Vali R. Nasr and Ali Vaez: The tensions rising between Iran and the United States aren’t a…
FM spox lambasts Pompeo for anti-Iran comments
MNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi reacted to the derogatory anti-Iran comments made by the US Secretary of State Mike…
US slaps new sanctions on Iran, imposes visa restrictions
Press TV – The United States has announced new sanctions against Iran, targeting individuals in the judicial courts and security services over…
Hard-line paper asks for answers on those killed in Iran protests
Al-Monitor – Amnesty International has updated its death toll from the protests in Iran in November to 304. Iranian authorities so far…
After the Iran protests: How Europe can keep diplomacy alive
Bourse and Bazaar | Ellie Geranmayeh: The Middle East is facing a wave of protests—with the latest unrest in Iran sweeping the…
IRGC head blames foreign influence for protest ‘sedition’
Al-Monitor – The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hossein Salami, issued a warning to the United States about provoking unrest…
US magazine blasts US bid for ‘violent revolution’ in Iran
Press TV – Washington’s bid to pressure Iran with sanctions has failed to achieve its objectives and has even backfired, US-based Foreign Policy…
Iran censures German FM’s ‘irresponsible, interventionist’ remarks over riots
Press TV – Iran has condemned German Foreign Minister Heiko Mass’s remarks concerning the recent riots in the Islamic Republic following a decision…
In wake of internet shutdown, Iran’s programmers face uncertain future
Bourse and Bazaar | Khosro Kalbasi: About twenty years ago, when Milad Nouri first told his parents and university instructors that he…
Why the official death toll in recent events in Iran has not been announced yet?
Tehran Times | Mohammad Ghaderi: The main question that has been raised in regard to the events of the past few weeks…
Ofcom confirms receiving Iran’s complaint against adversary Persian-language networks
MNA – Iran’s Ambassador to UK Hamid Baeedinejad said that the Institute observing visual media, commonly known as Ofcom (British Office of…
Most of those killed in recent riots were not even present in protests: Iran’s Shamkhani
Tasnim – Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said the majority of those killed in last month’s protests…
Iran banks burned, then customer accounts were exposed online
The New York Times | Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman: The details of millions of Iranian bank cards were published online after…
Enemies had been counting on recent unrest in Iran: Vaezi
MNA – Iranian President’s Chief of Staff Mahmoud Vaezi said on Wednesday that a number of countries including the US, Israeli regime,…
Spokesman blasts EU foreign policy chief for anti-Iran statement
FNA – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Seyed Abbas Moussavi rapped High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy…
Several riot leaders arrested in western Iran
FNA – Commander of Kermanshah province’s Law Enforcement Police Brigadier General Ali Akbar Javidan announced that his forces have recently arrested 4…