IranAir schedules flights to Madrid, Vienna
Financial Tribune – Iran’s flag carrier airline IranAir has scheduled two return flights to bring back Iranian students and residents stranded in…
Tag Archives: Iranian students abroad
Iran yanks favored exchange rate from students abroad
Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Thousands of Iranian students studying abroad are feeling the pain of new foreign exchange policies announced by the…
Iranian students to sue Norway over nuclear claims
Two Iranian students plan to take the Norwegian government to court after Oslo blocked university access for many Iranian students under the pretext that…
UMass reverses ban, will admit Iranians to graduate program
AMHERST, Mass. (AP) — The University of Massachusetts at Amherst said Wednesday that it has reversed its decision to ban Iranian nationals…
Iranian students feel ‘betrayed, excluded, and threatened’ by UMass policy
Two student groups are decrying an “outrageous” University of Massachusetts Amherst policy that restricts Iranian citizens from enrolling in some engineering and…
UMass Amherst tells Iranian students they need not apply to certain programs
The University of Massachusetts-Amherst deleted a policy statement Friday that warned students from Iran not to apply if they plan to major…
Knowledge should merge with wisdom, Piety, Leader tells Iranian students
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on the Iranian university students to amass knowledge…
Official vows to remove problems of Iranian students abroad
Tehran, Nov 13, IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian, in an address to a gathering of Iranian university…
Iranian youth studying abroad can apply for reduced military service
Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA – Iranian youth studying abroad can apply for reduced military service after graduation, an official with Presidential Office…
Dutch govt. must apologize to Iranian students for discrimination
The Dutch National Ombudsman Alex Brenninkmeijer has called on the Netherlands’ government to apologize to Iranian students and scholars over barring them…
Iran to hold major military exercise
Iran news headlines on Wednesday include IRGC military exercise in eastern Iran; Iran rise of power exports; U.S. security thinktank report on Iran nuke unlikely…
Germany: Banks block Iranian students’ accounts
Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and German other financial institutions have reportedly started suspending the accounts of Iranian students and refusing applications for new…
Some Iranian students complain of discrimination overseas
Sanctions blamed as bank accounts frozen, student loans denied and university applications rejected As US and EU sanctions aimed at Iran’s nuclear programme continue to escalate,…
Tehran bars energy exports to EU
Iran news headlines on Sunday include Iran’s oil ministry spokesman remarks over country ban of oil and gas exports to EU; Iran inaugurating ‘Ya Zahra’ short-range…
Sanctions squeeze Iranian students abroad
In the past year, increasingly tough sanctions have devastated Iran’s oil industry and contributed to rampant inflation and unemployment there, all part…