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Category: Iran

From Russia, Through Azerbaijan

Iran is all set to import gas from Russia through neighbouring Azerbaijan. Tehran and the Kremlin signed an important agreement a couple of months ago under which the West Asian […]

Tirana’s Tiff With Tehran

Albania, the Muslim-majority country in southern Europe and a NATO member, announced on September 7, 2022 that it snapped diplomatic ties with Iran. As Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of […]

Iran’s ‘George Floyd’ Movement

She came out from her residence, without wearing a proper hijab. Hence, the Guidance Patrol of the Islamic Republic of Iran, a special Police squad in charge of public implementation […]

After Two Years…

Qasem Soleimani, an Iranian Major General, was killed by a US drone strike at Baghdad International Airport on January 3, 2020. The drone had targeted Soleimani while he was on […]

Satanic

The author and one of the Midnight’s Children was attacked while he was delivering speech at a literary event in New York on August 12, 2022. Salman Rushdie, the 75-year-old […]

The ‘Deal’ Gone Bad

US President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was all set to revive the Iran nuclear deal. However, an Iranian effort to kidnap Masih Alinejad, an Iranian-American critic of the Tehran regime, […]

Not Just Films

Noted Iranian film director, screenwriter and film editor Jafar Panâhi (b. July 11, 1960), commonly associated with the Iranian New Wave Film Movement, once reportedly said that he “can’t do […]

The ‘Collapse’

Authoritarian rulers are creating troubles for creative and liberal personalities across the globe, including Iran. Jafar Panahi recently became the third Iranian film-maker to be arrested in less than a […]

A Relatively Quiet Trial Run

Iran and Russia have tested a new trade corridor to transport commodities via India. As the US and its Western allies have imposed economic sanctions on Russia over the Ukraine […]