
Digital Oppression- China’s Playbook For Iran
China’s large-scale efforts to control the Internet has become a viable conceptual and technical model for authoritarian regimes, like Iran's Islamic Republic.

China’s large-scale efforts to control the Internet has become a viable conceptual and technical model for authoritarian regimes, like Iran's Islamic Republic.

A large blaze that started at 7:38 Saturday morning, local time in Tehran’s bazaar has engulfed at least 30 businesses, according to the city’s fire department.

Activists, experts and former officials gathered for a conference to discuss human rights in Iran and issues related to Tehran's military and regional threats.

Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia’s lead negotiator in the Vienna talks on Iran’s nuclear program, tweeted twice Friday to signal progress.

There has always been controversy surrounding a picture of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini disembarking from a plane in Tehran in February 1979, after a 15-year exile.

Rents in the Iranian capital Tehran increased by 54 percent in January compared with last year, as annual inflation hovered around 40 percent and demand rose.

Iranian banks refuse to give government-mandated mortgages and loans to people, saying they don’t have the needed funds to comply with regulations.

Faced with increasing pressure from Republicans, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, has denied that Iran has the upper hand in Vienna nuclear talks.

Turkey arrested eight people in an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Israeli-Turkish businessman Yair Geller in revenge for killing of its nuclear scientist.

Iran relies on its own abilities and resources and does not pin “hopes on Vienna and New York,” President Ebrahim Raisi said during Friday Prayers in Tehran.

More reports from industry sources confirm that Iran’s oil exports have risen despite US sanctions, as each side tries to build leverage in nuclear talks.

In a report provided to media this week, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Iran has highlighted the detention of foreign and dual nations.

Russia has said there is still a long way to go in the Vienna talks before the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers can be revived.

A recorded message against Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was broadcast on the public announcement system in Mashhad’s bazaar, videos in social media show.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) will get 20 trillion rials ($80 million) worth of crude oil to finish construction projects for the country’s prayer grounds.

Iran’s education ministry has issued warnings to intimidate teachers and prevent them from participating in protests held regularly to demand higher pay.

Twelve people were injured at Saudi Arabia's Abha airport by shrapnel from an Iran-backed Houthi explosive-laden drone intercepted by air defenses on Thursday.

Turkish media reported Wednesday that the country’s intelligence had arrested 17 people allegedly linked to Iranian intelligence who were planning a kidnap.

Pentagon says it is working hard to contribute to the self-defense needs of allies and partners to counter threats posed by Iran’s missile program.

Exiled queen Farah Pahlavi in a message on the anniversary of the 1979 revolution has called the event a “sedition”, expressing hope that Iran can free itself from clerical rule.

Hackers have released what they say are judiciary papers asking state spokesmen to say that ad hoc tribunals and a foreign court case broke international law.