Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed on Thursday Ali Fadavi as Deputy Commander of Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, and Mohammad Reza Naghdi as Deputy Coordinator of the organization, local media reported.
Iranian security forces detained on Thursday more than ten human rights and women activists, who gathered to condemn increasing cases of honor killings and female suicides in the Kurdish region.
The White House announced in a statement that Ueli Maurer, the President of Swiss, will arrive in Washington on Thursday without prior notice to discuss Iran and recent tensions.
Germany and Netherland have stopped missions as the United States ordered on Wednesday all non-emergency staff to leave Iraq due to increasing threats from Iranian forces and their proxies, Gulf Today reported.
The Islamic Republic of Iran has officially stopped on Wednesday parts of its commitments to the 2015 nuclear deal, the country’s local media reported.
Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday that two oil pumping stations outside of Riyadh were attacked by what they called “terrorists,” Reuters reported.
A report by the New York Times suggested that the US Acting Defence Secretary offered a military plan to send 120,000 troops to the Middle East amid rising tensions with Iran.
The students of Tehran University gathered on Monday protesting against the Islamic Republic’s compulsory hijab and the behavior of the so-called morality police.
The Iranian judiciary has sentenced an Iranian woman allegedly working for the British Council on charges of “spying for the UK” to 10 years in prison on Monday, without naming the defendant.
An Iraqi-Arab tribal leader in Nineveh Governorate uncovers, “the Islamic Republic of Iran has provided the Popular Mobilization Forces (known as Hashd al-Shaabi) with ballistic missiles in order to target American military bases in the country.”
