On Wednesday, Iran’s new President Ebrahim Raisi presented a list of his cabinet nominations(link is external) to Iran’s parliament for its confirmation. While foreign policy decision-making is driven by ...
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Living in the Shadows of Oppression – The Situation of Christian Converts in Iran
IHRDC’s latest report, “Living in the Shadows of Oppression,” details the situation of Christian converts currently living in Iran. Facing the government’s narrow definition of protected Christianity, converts are ...
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Iran health official and Zarif criticize delay in securing COVID vaccines
In scathing criticism on Wednesday, head of Tehran’s Covid-19 taskforce attacked Iranian government’s response to the pandemic in the past 18 months, saying that much more money was spent ...
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Iran’s next foreign minister – A Diplomat With An ‘IRGC Attitude’
Some say the next Iranian foreign minister's views are as hawkish as the fiercest hard-line elements within Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and that improving relations with Western ...
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A man runs over two women in Iran for ‘Bad Hijab’
Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei has ordered an urgent investigation of an alleged attack Sunday on two women in Orumieh, capital of Iran’s north-western province of West Azarbaijan, for not ...
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Iran’s guards renew pledge to support Iraqi Shiite Militias
The commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), Falih Al-Fayyadh, has said on Sunday that his organization “owes its existence” to former Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, who was killed ...
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