[ad_1] Raisi’s visit is expected to deepen ties between the two political and economic partners that are opposed to the U.S.-led Western domination of international affairs. The two leaders met last September in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, when Xi underscored China’s support for Iran. In December, Raisi pledged to remain committed toContinue Reading
[ad_1] Images of a jailed Iranian doctor and human rights activist have circulated on social media platforms after he declared a hunger strike in support of the ongoing anti-hijab protests since the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody. 53-year-old Farhad Meysami, who has been imprisoned since 2018 for supportingContinue Reading
[ad_1] Tehran: Iranian award-winning director, Jafar Panahi, who has been imprisoned in Tehran for six months, announced that he has begun a hunger strike to protest the authorities’ refusal to release him on bail pending a retrial. The note from Jafar Panahi, starting of his hunger strike, was published onContinue Reading
[ad_1] Tehran: The Iranian authorities imposed a travel ban on the well-known filmmaker Masoud Kimiai, after he expressed his support for the protests that have been sweeping the Islamic Republic for months. The Independent Filmmakers Association of Iran announced that Masoud Kimiai was planning to leave Iran on Sunday eveningContinue Reading
[ad_1] US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday, the arrest of 3 people on suspicion of involvement in what he described as a “Tehran-backed plot” for attempting to assassinate journalist and a prominent human rights activist of Iranian origin Masih Alinejad in the United States (US). Garland said thatContinue Reading
[ad_1] Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Ministry condemned an armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran, in which one person was killed and two others injured. The Ministry’s spokesman Nasser Kanaani expressed “deep” sympathy to the assassinated embassy member’s family as well as the Azerbaijani government, according toContinue Reading
[ad_1] Female Iranian prisoners— Faezeh Hashemi (left), Fariba Adelkhah (right top) and Niloufar Bayani (right bottom) Tehran: Thirty female political prisoners in Evin Prison in Iran on Sunday have signed a petition calling for an end to the execution of protesters in the country, local media reported. The prisoners, including Franco-Iranian researcher FaribaContinue Reading
[ad_1] The third feature from Copenhagen-based Iranian director Ali Abbasi shares with his breakthrough film, the troll-thriller Border, a fascination with the monsters that lurk on the fringes of society. But in this Persian-language picture, based on a real-life serial killer who murdered 16 sex workers in the Iranian cityContinue Reading
[ad_1] Soccer Football – FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Group B – England v Iran – Khalifa International Stadium, Doha, Qatar – November 21, 2022 Iran players line up during the national anthems before the match. REUTERS/Marko Djurica In an apparent gesture of support for protesters at home, theContinue Reading