Iranian American journalist Masih Alinejad says she is the target of an alleged kidnapping plot that was foiled by the FBI and recently laid out in a federal indictment.
Eight years after starting his job as Iran’s first Vice President, Es’haq Jahangiri says “It is agonizing to know that some people in this country are unable to make ends meet.”
After the fall of Saddam’s regime, the Wali al-Faqih state in Tehran and its Iraqi allies dominated power in Baghdad as a result of a de facto alliance between the American invasion armies and the Iranian regime.
The June 18 Iranian election, in which Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi was selected as president, had the lowest turnout since the 1979 revolution. The biggest challenge Raisi will face in his first term is the growing economic ...
The Iranian economy is getting worse every day and there is little hope for the magic recovery promised by officials who are flogging the dead horse of the 2015 nuclear deal, and even the state-run media and ...
The Iranian economy is in tatters. Iranians are seeing inflation, and therefore prices, rising out of control. Since the regime’s presidential election last month, the state-run media has begun to admit some parts of the economic crisis ...
A new record high in electricity consumption has caused serious concerns in Iran over outages. Officials blame summer heat and intensive illegal cryptocurrency mining.
Plenty of observers have hailed the incoming presidency of Ebrahim Raeesi as an early prelude to his leadership of the Islamic Republic. Others, though, read it the opposite way: as a ploy to remove him from the ...
Iran’s Central Bank presented a report to the government on Tuesday about its plans to commit frozen foreign currency funds in preparation for a possible agreement with the United States, that would lift sanctions and restrictions on ...
The following is the content of IranWire’s extraordinary newsletter issued on Saturday, June 19. You can read all our recent, detailed coverage of president-elect Ebrahim Raeesi’s judicial career to date, and analysis of his future prospects, via ...
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