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Articles of the author Yaghoub Fazeli
Iraqi lawmaker calls for removal of Khamenei's posters in Baghdad
DUBAI — An outspoken Iraqi lawmaker questioned on Wednesday why authorities put up posters and images of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iraq, after a large poster put up in the capital Baghdad in preparation for Iran's Quds Day (...)

21 - 05 - 2020
Iran has spent $30 billion in Syria, says top lawmaker
DUBAI — Iran has spent about $30 billion in Syria since the start of the civil war in the country in 2011, said a prominent Iranian lawmaker in rare remarks about Tehran's spending in support of President Bashar Assad's regime. "We have probably (...)

20 - 05 - 2020
Iranian IRGC commander Abolfazl Sarlak killed in Syria
DUBAI — Abolfazl Sarlak, a commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has been killed in Syria, Iranian state media reported. Iran's state news agencies have given conflicting reports on how Sarlak was killed. The semi-official (...)

15 - 05 - 2020
19 dead as Iranian destroyer attacks warship during drill
& Tommy Hilton DUBAI -- An Iranian destroyer has accidentally attacked another Iranian warship during naval exercises in the Arabian Gulf, killing at least 19 people and injuring dozens, according to a statement from Iran's navy on Iranian state (...)

11 - 05 - 2020
Soleimani's daughter heads foundation named after him
DUBAI -- Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed the outspoken daughter of slain military commander Qassem Soleimani as the head of a newly established foundation named after the commander. State media carried a letter from a (...)

10 - 05 - 2020
Eye for an eye: Woman gets blinding sentence in Iran
DUBAI -- An Iranian woman convicted of blinding a man in an acid attack was sentenced to blinding, local media reported this week. In 2014, a 30-year-old woman in the city of Mashhad threw acid in the face of a 33-year-old man she had been involved (...)

09 - 05 - 2020
Australian-British academic jailed in Iran attempted suicide ‘on multiple occasions'
DUBAI — Kylie Moore-Gilbert, an Australian-British academic jailed in Iran for espionage, has attempted suicide on multiple occasions in Tehran's notorious Evin prison, according to the spouse of a prominent imprisoned Iranian human rights (...)

06 - 05 - 2020
Families of arrested Iranians express anguish and dismay
DUBAI -- Families of two high-achieving Iranian students, who have been in custody for almost a month with authorities yet to provide details of their arrest, have expressed concern over the fate of their sons. On April 10, security forces (...)

06 - 05 - 2020
Instagram couple in Iran get 16-year jail, 74 lashes
DUBAI -- Iranian social media influencer Ahmad-Moin Shirazi and his wife Shabnam Shahrokhi were sentenced to a total of 16 years in prison and 74 lashes in absentia by a Revolutionary Court in Iran. Shirazi said in an Instagram post late April that (...)

05 - 05 - 2020
US can help Iran fight corona by lifting curbs, says Rohani
DUBAI -- The only way the US can help Iran against the coronavirus is by lifting sanctions on the republic, President Hassan Rohani said on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported. Iran is the epicenter of coronavirus in the Middle East, (...)

05 - 05 - 2020
Iran may not hold Quds Day rallies this year, says IRGC
DUBAI -- Iran's annual Quds Day rallies are "unlikely" to be held this year due to the coronavirus outbreak, the spokesman of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Ramezan Sharif said on Sunday. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for the city of (...)

03 - 05 - 2020
Iranian student gets jail and lashes for anti-govt protests
DUBAI -- An Iranian student has been sentenced to six years in prison and 74 lashes for taking part in Iran's January protests after the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane. Iranians took to (...)

02 - 05 - 2020
Iran arrests thousands for spreading corona rumors
DUBAI — Iran has arrested 3,600 individuals for "spreading rumors" about coronavirus in the country, the spokesman for the armed forces Abolfazl Shekarchi told state TV on Tuesday. "The Basij and the police have arrested 3,600 individuals who spread (...)

29 - 04 - 2020
Iran will never initiate any conflict or tension: Rohani
DUBAI -- Iran is closely monitoring US troops in the region, but will never initiate any conflict or tension, President Hassan Rohani said in a phone call with Qatar's Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani on Saturday. Rohani congratulated the Qatari (...)

25 - 04 - 2020
Iran coronavirus death toll rises by 76 to 5,650
DUBAI -- Iran's coronavirus death toll rose by 76 in the past 24 hours to 5,650, health ministry spokesman Kianush Jahanpour said on Saturday. The total number of infections reached 89,328, he said. "So far, 410,075 coronavirus tests have been taken (...)

25 - 04 - 2020
Iran can export corona testing kits, says Rohani
DUBAI -- Iran can export coronavirus testing kits to other countries, President Hassan Rohani said on Wednesday, contrary to claims of US sanctions preventing the country from accessing testing kits. The republic claims there is a shortage of (...)

22 - 04 - 2020
Iran to receive corona aid from World Bank and IsDB
DUBAI -- The World Bank and the Islamic Development Bank will lend Iran $50 million and €130 million respectively to combat coronavirus, a deputy health minister said on Saturday. Iran has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the Middle East, with (...)

19 - 04 - 2020
Iranian refugee Alireza Firouzja defeats world chess champion
DUBAI -- Iranian refugee Alireza Firouzja shocked the world of chess on Thursday after winning the Banter Blitz Cup by defeating Norwegian World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. Firouzja claimed the $14,000 prize by defeating Carlsen 8.5-7.5 in the (...)

18 - 04 - 2020
Iran's IRGC unveils new device to detect the virus
DUBAI -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Wednesday unveiled a new home-grown device capable of detecting individuals infected with coronavirus remotely and without blood tests, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The (...)

15 - 04 - 2020
Iranian opposition group MEK says over 26,000 die of corona
DUBAI -- Iran's real coronavirus death toll has exceeded 26,000, around six times the official death toll, according to opposition group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK). Iran's death toll reached 4,585 on Monday with 73,303 confirmed cases, according to a (...)

14 - 04 - 2020
Iran probing if COVID-19 was a US biological attack: Official
DUBAI -- Iranian scientists are investigating whether the coronavirus outbreak in the country could be the result of a US biological attack, said an Iranian military official on Sunday, referring to a widely debunked conspiracy theory which has been (...)

12 - 04 - 2020
Tehran 'low-risk' businesses to reopen on April 18: Rohani
DUBAI -- "Low-risk" businesses will reopen in the capital Tehran from April 18, President Hassan Rohani said on Sunday, a day after "low-risk" economic activity was allowed to resume elsewhere in the country. Iran reopened government offices on (...)

12 - 04 - 2020
Case filed against Iranian MP for remarks on Ukraine plane
DUBAI -- A criminal case has been filed against Iranian lawmaker Hassan Norouzi for saying no arrests have been made in relation to Iran's downing of a Ukrainian civilian airliner in January, according to the head of the judicial organization of the (...)

07 - 04 - 2020
Close Khamenei aide blames US for corona
DUBAI -- A close associate of Iranian Supreme Leadeer Ali Khamenei is the latest Iranian official to blame the US for the coronavirus pandemic. "This virus is something that the devil's disciples made and spread ... its source is America," cleric (...)

07 - 04 - 2020
MP: Iran military did well in downing Ukrainian plane
DUBAI -- The Iranian military did "well" by downing a civilian airliner in January, the spokesman for the parliament's legal and judicial committee said on Sunday, adding that no arrests have been made in relation to the incident, contrary to (...)

06 - 04 - 2020
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