View Trump's Blackwater pardons could fuel retaliation on anniversary of Soleimani's assassination ǀ View As has been the case in the past, Donald Trump doesn’t see the links between his impulsive, corruption-driven decisions, like the Blackwater pardons, and threats to US national security. 01/01/2021
Iran Iran executes journalist who encouraged 2017 protests Iran executed a once-exiled journalist over his online work that helped inspire nationwide economic protests in 2017. 12/12/2020
Iran France, Germany and UK brand Iran’s nuclear plans ‘deeply worrying’ Iranian plans to build three advanced centrifuges, in contravention of the Iran Nuclear Deal, are “deeply worrying” according to the governments of France, Germany and the UK. 07/12/2020
no comment Iran lays to rest nuclear scientist and vows to carry his forward work Ali Shamkhani, a top Iranian security official, used the funeral to accuse Israel of using “electronic devices” to kill the nuclear scientist. 30/11/2020
state of the union Europe's week: Failed sanctions and a rebooted migration policy Sanctions against Belarusian strongman, Alexander Lukashenko, failed to materialise this week, as the EU launched its much anticipated and revamped migration pact. 25/09/2020
Iraq Forty years after the war, how are Iranian and Iraqi relations? Tehran now wields considerable political and economic influence in neighbouring Iraq with some Iraqis deploring that their country was "handed over to Iran". 22/09/2020
Iran Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's trial postponed in Iran The British-Iranian national, who has served four a half years of her a five-year sentence, faces new charges. 13/09/2020
Iran Iran executes young wrestler Navid Afkari despite global appeals "The execution of Iranian wrestler Navid Afkari is very sad news," the International Olympic Committee said. 12/09/2020
Iran Iran announces new charge against detained Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe Zaghari-Ratcliffe appeared Tuesday morning before a branch of the country’s Revolutionary Court in Tehran, where she was first sentenced to prison on murky espionage charges in 2017. 09/09/2020
no comment Mourning and masks: Shiites in Iran mark Ashoura amid COVID-19 Ashoura Day falls on the 10th of the Islamic month of Muharram and is preceded by days of commemoration and remembrance. 30/08/2020
Iran Iranian passenger plane 'harassed' over Syria by US fighter jet One F-15 fighter plane did briefly surveil the Iranian passenger jet from a safe distance but disengaged after it established it was a civilian aircraft, the US confirmed. 24/07/2020
View Hossein Dehghani: The collapse of the Iran Nuclear Deal 5 years on would be a failure of EU values 14/07/2020
View Sanctions are not the enemy of Iran’s public health as coronavirus grips - its regime is ǀ View 26/03/2020
