A new pipeline that would link Iran to China via Pakistan, bypassing the strategic Strait of Hormuz, would pass through the insurgent regions of Baluchistan, Kashmir and Xinjiang.
Reports that Obama bin Laden’s co-conspirator and brother-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was sheltered in Iran could lubricate the war driveâbut how credible are they?
The Iranian Parliament voted to impeach Labor Minister Abdolreza Sheikholeslami, because he appointed an official who was implicated in the deaths of prisoners in 2010.
A group of independent UN human rights experts urged Iran to stop the execution of five activists who worked for the rights of the Ahwazi Arab minority in the country’s west.
Iranian authorities have advised the 1.5 million residents of Isfahan to leave the city because air pollution has reached emergency levelsâwhile denying rumors of a nuclear leak.
Iranian lawyer and prominent human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh ended a 49-day hunger strike in protest of her prison conditions and a travel ban imposed on her family.
Nine female political prisoners in Iranâincluding some deemed “prisoners of conscience” by Amnesty Internationalâhave started a hunger strike in response to abuse by prison guards.
Mitt Romney utterly betrayed the Iranian protesters by portraying them as looking to the US for sponsorship and protectionâplaying right into Ahmadinejad’s propaganda.
Representatives for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights voiced their concern over Iran’s recent crackdown on activists speaking out within the nation.
At angry protests over economic conditions in Tehran, slogans included “Allahu akbar!” (God is great, associated with the 1979 revolution) and “Leave Syria alone, instead think of us!”
With two US warships headed for Libya, 25 nations led by the US are converging on the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz for naval maneuvers on an unprecedented scale.
With Tehran revealed to be supplying Damascus with arms through Iraqi airspace, events in Syria could be propelling the US towards unprecedented military commitments.
