The sheer violence of the Taliban’s first reign in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s was such that many analysts now fear the same will happen again, with potentially horrific consequences ...
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Revolutionary Guards called for travel ban on Ex-Oil officials to prevent disclosure of sanctions-evading tactics
Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) last year urged the judiciary to issue travel bans against several oil officials for fear they could expose the "secret" tactics Tehran ...
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Iranian ambassador to UK removed from post over hijab incident
Mohsen Baharvand ordered back to Tehran after video shows some women with heads uncovered at embassy reception
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Radio Farda expose on IRGC corruption and infighting raises ire of Iranian authorities
A leaked audio recording in which two former senior officials of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) discuss corruption that helps fund the powerful force and its secretive military ...
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Iran’s strategy following a deal with the US
News coming from the nuclear talks in Vienna shows that the topic of a prisoner exchange between Iran and the US has taken priority over the talk on monitoring ...
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Iran’s ‘Moderates’ planning a political comeback?
Two reformist newspapers in Iran have reported that a new “reformist” alliance is growing among politicians opposed to hardliners in charge of the government.
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