(Reuters) – Over 1,000 people have been killed in two days of fighting in Syria’s coastal area between militants from Bashar al-Assad’s Alawite sect and security forces associated with the country’s new Islamist authorities, a war monitor reported on Saturday. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 148 Assad-alignedContinue Reading
DUBAI (Reuters) – The country’s run-off presidential election has been won by the low-key moderate Masoud Pezeshkian, who has promised to open Iran to the outside world and bring about the freedoms that its people have long desired for, the interior ministry announced on Saturday. “By gaining majority of theContinue Reading
TEHRAN: Nine foreign nationals, believed to be Pakistanis, were slain by unidentified gunmen in southern Iran on Saturday, more than a week after the neighbours traded deadly cross-border fire. “Witnesses said this morning that unknown gunmen killed nine non-Iranians in a house in the Sirkan neighbourhood of Saravan city” inContinue Reading
RIYAD : Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries demanded an immediate cessation of military operations in Gaza on Saturday, dismissing Israel’s rationale for its actions against Palestinians as self-defense. According to the final statement of the unusual joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh, the International Criminal Court was asked to probeContinue Reading
(AP) NEW YORK — The PEN America Literary Gala will honour Iranian author, journalist, and human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi this week. Mohammadi, who is incarcerated at the moment for “spreading propaganda,” will win the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award in 2023. In a statement issued on Monday, PEN AmericaContinue Reading
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Iran’s President Ibrahim Raeesi is likely to meet this month. Pakistan’s Prime Minister and Iranian President will likely to meet in Balochistan’s Pishin, sources said. PM Shehbaz Sharif is scheduled to visit Balochistan on May 18 for a meeting with the leader of neighbouringContinue Reading
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi will go to China in the coming days for a three-day visit aimed at expanding economic relations, according to state media on Sunday. According to Iran’s state news agency IRNA, Raisi will depart for Beijing on Monday evening in response to an official invitation from ChineseContinue Reading
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain slapped sanctions on 30 people globally on Friday, including Russian and Iranian authorities, for acts of torture, sexual abuse, and violent repression of public movements. The action comes a day after France imposed additional European Union sanctions against Iran for human rights violations in its securityContinue Reading
Iran is dragging its feet on information about uranium particles found at old undeclared facilities in the country, according to the chief of the UN atomic watchdog, raising the possibility of a clash in June. Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers has been on hold since March, primarily dueContinue Reading
On Wednesday, Iran’s semi-official ISNA news agency announced that a Swedish-Iranian national sentenced to death in Iran on charges of spying for Israel will be executed by May 21, as the trial of a former Iranian official suspected of war crimes concluded in Sweden. In 2016, while on an academicContinue Reading
