The head of Iran's Quds force, Qassem Suleimani has warned the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah against waging any pre-emptive war on Israel, according to a website affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps.
In a strongly-worded letter to Tehran’s Chief Prosecutor, retired university professor Mohammad Maleki has expressed his outrage over the arrest of ailing human rights activist Narges Mohammadi.
Iranian authorities have detained at least 26 people in the city of Ahwaz and its surroundings in the southwestern province of Khuzestan during the weeks leading up to the April 15 anniversary of a 2005 protest and subsequent crackdown.
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In a statement on Sunday, Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Minister of State of Foreign Affairs Diane Ablonczy said Canada was “gravely concerned” that the execution of death row inmate Ghassemi-Shall “may be carried out imminently.”
Hamid Ghassemi-Shall, a dual national of Iran and Canada, faces imminent execution on espionage-related charges, sources told the Green Voice of Freedom on Sunday.
Nuclear negotiators for Iran and six world powers were making encouraging progress in bridging differences that have doomed previous meetings meant to reduce fears over Tehran's atomic program, diplomats close to the talks said.
An American man who suffered a heart attack on a flight from Dubai to Seattle is receiving medical treatment in Tehran after the plane diverted to Iran’s capital, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.