Iran’s military forces conducted four days of extensive exercises on Wednesday that many believe are essentially preparations for how the country might respond to a U.S., Israeli or combined attack on its nuclear facilities. Brigadier General Mohammad-Nazar Azimi, commander of the western headquarters of Najaf Ashraf, the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, touted the national … Read more
Rome — An Italian journalist detained in Iran for three weeks and whose fate became linked to that of an Iranian engineer wanted by the United States was released Wednesday and is returning home, Italian officials said. A plane carrying Cecilia Sala took off from Tehran after “intensive work on diplomatic and intelligence channels”, Prime … Read more
Rep. Mike Turner, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” that developments in Syria that saw President Bashar Assad resign and flee the country after insurgents taken control of Damascus are a blow to its allies, Iran. and Russia. He said the US government – which has some 900 … Read more
Iranian rapper and activist Toomaj Salehi was released from prison more than two years after his words and support for the massive women’s rights protests that swept the country following the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini He was imprisoned and ultimately sentenced to death, his lawyers representing him said in a statement on … Read more
Tehran — Iran said Friday it would launch a series of “new and advanced” centrifuges in response to a resolution passed by the United Nations nuclear watchdog that blames Tehran for what the agency called a lack of cooperation. The motion of no confidence filed by Britain, France, Germany and the United States before the … Read more