Ahead of decisions of importance to Tehran by United States and U.K. governments, the Iranian state television showed footage of two foreign nationals who have been jailed by the regime, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported Monday. The spouses of Xiyue Wang, an American graduate student, and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian dual citizen who works for...

Iran-backed Shia militia forces have been accused by a parliamentarian of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in the autonomous region in northern Iraq of engaging in “flagrant injustice” toward the Christian minority, Ben Cohen reported in The Algemeiner on Monday. Wahida Yaqo Hormuz, a Christian representative in the Kurdish parliament,...

Russia vetoed a United States resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that would have extended an international investigation into chemical weapons use in Syria. This is the tenth time Russia has blocked such a resolution at the Security Council to shield its Syrian ally from UN action...

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), recently designated in its entirety as a terrorist organization by the United States Treasury Department, has arrested at least 30 dual nationals over the past two years, twice as many as earlier reported. According to accounts of lawyers, diplomats and relatives, most individuals are being...

The BBC has reported Iran to the United Nations for a “sustained campaign of intimidation and harassment,” after Iranian authorities launched an investigation into more than 150 of its staff for “conspiracy against national security.” The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday that the broadcaster, in a complaint to David Kaye, the...

Iran has sentenced to death a man it implicated in the assassination of several senior nuclear scientists and accused of being a spy for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. Tehran’s prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi was quoted by the Islamic Republic’s judiciary news agency on Tuesday as saying that “the person had...