Iran's top human rights official has strongly condemned a decision by a French court to deport Iranian national Bashir Biazar as illegal and a violation of his human rights.

Financial Tribune - Irans flag carrier airline IranAir has scheduled two return flights to bring back Iranian students and residents stranded in Madrid, Spain. The first flight is scheduled to leave Imam Khomeini International Airport to Madrid on May 4 at 10:45 a.m. local time. The return flight is scheduled to leave Madrid, on the same day,...

Al-Monitor | Saeid Jafari: Thousands of Iranian students studying abroad are feeling the pain of new foreign exchange policies announced by the Central Bank of Iran in response to the rial's devaluation. In January, one US dollar fetched 44,500 rials on the open market. Today, it takes more than 100,000 rials to equal one dollar. The government ...

Two Iranian students plan to take the Norwegian government to court after Oslo blocked university access for many Iranian studentsunderthe pretext that they might be learning nuclear weapons-related technology, Press TV reports. Norwegian authorities have depriveddozens of Iranian students of university programssince 2012, claimingthat Iran is sending ...

[caption id="attachment_150979" align="alignright" width="187"] AMHERST, MA - SEPTEMBER 17: Students on the campus of UMass Amherst. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | Boston Globe via Getty Images[/caption] AMHERST, Mass. (AP) -- The University of Massachusetts at Amherst said Wednesday that it has reversed its decision ...

[caption id="attachment_150979" align="alignright" width="189"] AMHERST, MA - SEPTEMBER 17: Students on the campus of UMass Amherst. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | Boston Globe via Getty Images[/caption] Two student groups are decrying an "outrageous" University of Massachusetts Amherst policy that restricts Iranian ...

[caption id="attachment_150979" align="alignright" width="234"] AMHERST, MA - SEPTEMBER 17: Students on the campus of UMass Amherst. (Photo by Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) | Boston Globe via Getty Images[/caption] The University of Massachusetts-Amherst deleted a policy statement Friday that warned students from Iran not to apply ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei called on the Iranian university students to amass knowledge while exercising wisdom, stressing that both of those values should be associated with piety and chastity. In a message to the 49th annual meeting of the union of the Islamic associations of ...

Tehran, Nov 13, IRNA President Hassan Rouhani's chief of staff Mohammad Nahavandian, in an address to a gathering of Iranian university students studying in Azerbaijan Republic on Thursday, pledged to do his best to remove their problems. After listening to the students' demands, Nahavandian said the government would spare no effort to tackle the ...

Tehran, Dec 21, IRNA Iranian youth studying abroad can apply for reduced military service after graduation, an official with Presidential Office said on Saturday. Advisor to the High Council of Iranians Affairs Abroad Ali-Reza Rajaei told IRNA that the students studying inside Iran are given reduced military service in return for research studies ...

The Dutch National Ombudsman Alex Brenninkmeijer has called on the Netherlands government to apologize to Iranian students and scholars over barring them from entering the universities of the European country. In 2008, the Dutch government banned registration of Iranian students and researchers in certain fields at universities across the country ...

Iran news headlines on Wednesday include IRGC military exercise ineastern Iran; Iran rise of power exports;U.S. security thinktank report onIran nuke unlikely to start Mideast arms race; Germany charging two men with smuggling dozens of German-made engines to Iranandblock of Iranian students accounts by German banks. IRGC to hold military exercise ...

Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and German other financial institutions have reportedly started suspending the accounts of Iranian students and refusing applications for new accounts. The website ofDer Spiegelmagazine reported on Monday that affected customers received letters from their banks notifying them of the imminent closure of their accounts. No ...

Sanctions blamed asbank accounts frozen, student loans denied and university applications rejected AsUS and EU sanctionsaimed atIran's nuclear programme continue to escalate, an increasing number of Iranians studying abroad are finding themselves in the firing line. Bank accounts have been frozen, student loans denied and university applications ...

Iran news headlines on Sunday includeIran's oil ministryspokesman remarks over country ban ofoil and gas exports to EU; Iran inaugurating 'Ya Zahra'short-range missile production line; pressure ofsanctions on Iranian students abroad; Iran denial of huge explosion atIran's Fordo enrichment plant; protest of Employees of Iran's Entekhab Industrial Group ...

In the past year, increasingly tough sanctions have devastated Irans oil industry and contributed to rampant inflation and unemployment there, all part of a plan to pressure Iran to curtail its nuclear ambitions. But the international sanctions have had another, unintended, consequence. They have caused the Iranian currency to nose-dive, and for ...