Iran is modifying the attack drones it supplies to Russia so that the explosive warheads can do maximum damage to infrastructure facilities in Ukraine, CNN reported yesterday.more
State-linked Russian and Iranian hackers are increasingly targeting British politicians, journalists and academics in their spear-phishing attacks, the UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) warned yesterday.more
The United States and the United Kingdom, together with European Union countries, introduced additional sanctions against Iran yesterday over human rights violations during anti-government protests there, the US State Department website reported.more
Iranian Foreign Minister Hussein Amirabdollahian told EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell that listing Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization would be "shooting itself in the foot" by the EU.more
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak today described the execution by the Iranian authorities of Alireza Akbari, the country's former deputy defense minister who is also a British citizen, as a cowardly act of a barbaric regime. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has announced that this will not go unpunished.more
A 20-year-old Iranian man, Afshin Esmaeil Ghaderzadeh has been entered into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's shortest man. He measures just 65.24 cm. His weight, on the other hand, stopped at 6.5 kg.more
The United Kingdom announced the imposition of sanctions on a further 24 Iranian officials and high-ranking security officials in response to the brutal crackdown on protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, arrested by the morality police.more
The risk that Western weapons handed over to Ukraine might be intercepted by Russia and shipped to Iran has been considered, but as it does not contain state-of-the-art technology, this is not a big problem, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace assured.more
The British Foreign Office said yesterday that it had called the charge d'affaires of the Iranian embassy over reports of threats by Iranian security forces against journalists from that country working in the UK.more
"Iran should be excluded from the World Cup," said Sepp Blatter, president of FIFA in 1998-2015, quoted in the Swiss newspaper "Blick". A wave of protests is sweeping through the country following the death of a woman arrested by the morality police.more
Famed writer Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," among others, lost sight in one eye and power in his left hand as a result of a knife attack in August this year, in upstate New York, his agent Andrew Wylie reported yesterday.more
France, Great Britain and Germany demanded yesterday in a letter to the UN that an "impartial" investigation into Iranian drones delivered to the Russian army in Ukraine should be initiated, the AFP agency said.more
Iran will supply Russia with more drones and surface-to-surface missiles, with an agreement signed on October 6, Reuters reported yesterday, citing Iranian and Western diplomats. The agency estimates that this will increase tensions between Tehran and the West.more
Iran's chief judge, Golam Hussein Mohseni Ejei, announced harsh sentences for the most active participants in anti-government protests that spilled in Iran in mid-September following the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, who died after being arrested by morality police.more
The United States is committed to enabling the free circulation of information in Iran, especially in light of the urgent need for internet access, when the government in Tehran is brutally suppressing peaceful protests, said US deputy head of diplomacy Wendy Sherman. In W she spoke with representatives of over 20 technology film to find ways to support Iranian citizens.more
Britain has imposed sanctions on the entire Iranian morality police and five high-ranking commanders of Iran's security forces. This is a reaction to the suppression of protests that broke out after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody.more
The women's rights movement "Open Stadiums" is calling on FIFA to exclude Iran from the World Cup in Qatar over the mistreatment of women in the country.more
Iranian police recently said it is a crime to take a dog for a walk. Several Iranians have already been detained for such "offenses". Parliament is also considering banning certain pets, reported the French BFM TV.more
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirms that a Polish citizen was deprived of liberty in Iran in September 2021. Consular and diplomatic actions are being taken to enable him to return to Poland as soon as possible, the ministry said.more
Russia is using Iranian smuggling networks to import weapons and military equipment from Iraq, donated by Shia militias there; it can also count on the government in Tehran for military assistance, the British newspaper The Guardian reported today.more
Talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal between world powers and Iran are approaching a dangerous impasse, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss announced yesterday.more
The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a dual British and Iranian aid worker who has been held in Iran for more than five years, ended his 21-day hunger strike yesterday.more
The husband of the detained British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is beginning a hunger strike in Whitehall, demanding the government do more to secure her release.more
A British maritime agency has said that a “potential hijack” is unfolding off the coast of the United Arab Emirates’s Fujairah region in the Gulf of Oman, without giving details on the vessel or vessels involved, as several other ships also indicated they were in trouble.more
The UK and Iran have summoned each other's diplomats in a row over last week's deadly attack on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman. The UK, US and Israel blame Iran for the attack, in which two crew members - a Briton and a Romanian - were killed.more