An Iranian provincial official has accused foreign media of misrepresenting overnight funeral gatherings for a popular poet in the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz as anti-government protests. Amateur videos posted on social media appeared to show dozens protesting in the streets of Ahvaz, the capital of the oil-rich province of Khuzestan, after the death of […]

Pars TV is a US based satellite TV channel and was founded in 1987. Its main focus is based on informing, knowledge, freedom and human rights, and to promote the institutionalization of democracy and the realization of human rights. (3409)

The 2017–2018 Iranian protests refer to a series of public protests occurring in various cities throughout Iran beginning on 28 December 2017 and continuing into 2018. The first protest took place in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city by population, initially focused on the economic policies of the country’s government; however, as protests spread throughout the country, […]

Iran said on Saturday that it is now enriching uranium to five percent and has a capacity for up to 60 percent, after a series of steps back from its commitments under the 2015 nuclear accord with major powers. Tehran also slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, saying it was his “biggest lie” that Iran […]

Persian Broadcasting Company also known as Tapesh (Persian: تپش; meaning heartbeat) is a Persian television company in the United States, founded by Masoud Jamali and Persian TV personality Alireza Amirghassemi, consisting of two channels, Tapesh and T2, a magazine, and a record company. Programming consists of news and talk shows, music concerts, sitcoms, movies, variety […]

The 2017–2018 Iranian protests refer to a series of public protests occurring in various cities throughout Iran beginning on 28 December 2017 and continuing into 2018. The first protest took place in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city by population, initially focused on the economic policies of the country’s government; however, as protests spread throughout the country, […]

Seyed Mojtaba Vahedi is an Iranian reformist activist, journalist, and senior advisor to Mehdi Karroubi. He was editor-in-chief of reformist newspaper Aftab Yazd from 2000 until January 2010, when he resigned to keep the newspaper from being closed. (1405)

Ardeshir Hosseinpour was an Iranian nuclear scientist, physics professor, and electromagnetism expert[2] who was involved in the Iranian nuclear program. He died mysteriously in early 2007 during his nuclear work at Isfahan. Hosseinpour held a B.S. degree in electrical engineering and a MSc degree in Nuclear Physics from Shiraz University in 2002.[5] He was a […]

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in South-Central Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and in the far northeast, China (3814)