Better oil deals in Iran
Iran has changed the way in which it offers contracts to foreign energy companies in an attempt to attract up to $30bn of new investment. The terms of the new oil contracts will be more favourable to [ More … ]
Iran has changed the way in which it offers contracts to foreign energy companies in an attempt to attract up to $30bn of new investment. The terms of the new oil contracts will be more favourable to [ More … ]
Following the terrorist attacks in Paris killing more than 120 people, world leaders have expressed their condolences, and condemnation of the attacks. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani who was scheduled to land in France for a [ More … ]
UN human rights experts have called on the authorities in Iran to stop intimidating journalists as the country is preparing for elections early next year. Ahmed Shaheed, who is the special rapporteur on Iran, said [ More … ]
The Houthis have made advancement and are now in control of several positions lost in recent months across southern Yemen, military sources said on Sunday. In Lahj province, which borders to Aden, sources told AFP [ More … ]
The Iranian parliament voted to keep the anti-American slogan “Death to Americaâ€, despite having brokered an extensive and unprecedented nuclear deal with the country just a few months prior. The Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah [ More … ]
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, said in a public statement on state television that the war in Syria must end. For that to happen, he said, Western powers must stop backing the [ More … ]
The rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran are threatening the upcoming peace talks on Syria. Until two weeks ago, the idea that Saudi Arabia and Iran would sit at the same table, was totally unthinkable. [ More … ]
Ahead of today’s negotiations on Syria in Vienna, Iran has reportedly opened up for sacrificing sitting Syrian president Bashar al- Assad. This represents a major shift in Iranian policy regarding Syria, where the country [ More … ]
A senior member of Syria’s political opposition said on Wednesday that the participation of Iran in the Syrian peace talks in Vienna, would undermine the political process. The United States has said that Iran, the main [ More … ]
The special United Nations investigator of human rights in Iran presented a highly critical report on Tuesday that contradicted the regime’s own assessment, describing a record rate of executions, a flawed judiciary and repression of [ More … ]
Iran says it will attend the upcoming international talks on Syria’s future this week in Vienna. It will be the first time Tehran – the main regional ally of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad – has [ More … ]
A military airstrike in northwest Syria has killed the leader of an al-Qaeda cell that American officials say has been plotting attacks against the United States and Europe, announced the Pentagon on Sunday. The leader, [ More … ]
The US approved conditional sanctions waivers for Iran on Sunday, though it cautioned they would not take effect until Tehran had curbed its nuclear programme as required under the nuclear deal reached in Vienna in [ More … ]
Syrian troops, backed by Russian air power, and allied militias opened a new front against rebels around the second city of Aleppo on Friday, where up to 2,000 IranÂ-backed forces are deployed. The Aleppo offensive [ More … ]
Iran tested a new guided long-range ballistic missile on Sunday, hours before Parliament approved the generalities of the nuclear agreement reached in July between Iran and world powers, reports the state news agency IRNA. The [ More … ]
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