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Iranian musician, 30, is arrested and charged over claims he let women sing and dance in online art video Mehdi Rajabian, 30, was summoned to the Revolutionary Court of Sari Tuesday He’s been in & out of Tehran’s Evin prison since 2013 for anti-regime crimes ‘I did an interview about a new album featuring female … Read more
Iranian newspaper is shut down for reporting ‘true’ death toll from covid is 20 times higher than official count Iran shut down the Jahan-e Sanat publication on Sunday following the interview Mohammadreza Mahboubfar said officials had only reported 5% of the real tolls Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari rejected Mahboubfar’s remarks and said he … Read more
His iconic photographs of the SAS storming the Iranian embassy won him an award – but Dave Parker might easily have missed it. As a budding Fleet Street photographer when the siege happened in 1980, he was also trying to cover his patch at Heathrow Airport, and only agreed last minute to do a ‘shift’ … Read more
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The exercises – dubbed ‘Prophet Mohammed 14th’ – were held near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. State television reported the exercise on Tuesday, … Read more
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The exercises – dubbed ‘Prophet Mohammed 14th’ – were held near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. State television reported the exercise on Tuesday, … Read more
Open secret: Iranian spies accidentally leak videos of themselves showing how to hack and steal data from email accounts Video of Iran-backed hackers training other hackers was uploaded by mistake Footage showed hackers combing through email accounts and copying data The footage was spotted by IBM’s X-Force security team and shared with Wired The rare … Read more
A massive blaze has broken out at an Iranian port, ripping through at least seven ships – the latest in a string of mysterious fires and explosions to hit the country. Dramatic video purporting to show the blaze shows thick black smoke billowing from the scene at the port of Bushehr – as men desperately … Read more
The January U.S. drone strike in Iraq that killed top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani and nine other people represented a violation of international law, a U.N. human rights investigator said on Monday. The United States has failed to provide sufficient evidence of an ongoing or imminent attack against its interests to justify the strike on … Read more
At least 13 die as huge explosion tears through buildings in Iranian capital Tehran Ten women and three men are reported to have died in the explosion on June 30 The explosion occurred at the Sina At’har health centre in the north of the capital A number of videos on social media appeared to show … Read more
Iranian journalist is sentenced to death three years after he inspired anti-government protests Ruhollah Zam had run a website posting information about Iranian officials He lived and worked in exile in Paris before returning to Iran & being arrested His death sentence was announced on Tuesday morning By Ap Published: 14:08 BST, 30 June 2020 … Read more