Tag: Special Content
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On the Second Anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s Death, Where Do Women Stand in Iran?
Editor’s Note: Maryam Rezaeizadeh has specialized in researching the situation of women in the Middle East and is a former consultant for the Middle East Perspectives Project. By Barbara Slavin, Distinguished Fellow, Middle East Perspectives Two years after the death of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of Iran’s so-called morality police,…
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We are not looking for nuclear weapons: New Iran President
TEHRAN: Iran‘s new reformist President insisted Monday that Tehran didn’t want to enrich uranium at near-weapons grade levels but had been forced to by the US withdrawal from its nuclear deal with world powers. The comments by President Masoud Pezeshkian at his first news conference, underlines a campaign promise he made to try to see…
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Iran president vows to ensure morality police don’t ‘bother’ women
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed Monday to ensure the morality police will no longer “bother” women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police custody on September 16, 2022, days after the morality police arrested her in Tehran for an…
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Iran’s Pezeshkian says ‘no place for hostility’ with Saudi Arabia, ready to visit Riyadh
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian expressed at a press conference in Tehran on Monday his willingness to improve Iranian-Saudi relations, calling the two nations “brothers” and adding that he would visit Riyadh when the opportunity presented itself. In his first press conference since assuming office in July, Pezeshkian spoke about the possibility of Saudi Crown Prince…
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London Targets Tehran’s Sanctions-Busting Oil Trading Kingpin
Alex Kimani Alex Kimani is a veteran finance writer, investor, engineer and researcher for Safehaven.com. More Info By Alex Kimani – Sep 16, 2024, 11:30 AM CDT The UK government is cracking down on oil-trading kingpin Hossein Shamkhani’s secretive oil trading empire, known for moving Iranian and Russian crude around the world. According to Bloomberg,…
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India says Iran’s Supreme Leader’s comments on minorities in India “misinformed”, should “look at their own record”
New Delhi: India has said Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments on Indian Muslims are “unacceptable”. Posting on X on the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammed, Khamenei had clubbed Indian Muslims with those in Gaza, talking about the sufferings in Myanmar, Gaza or India. “We strongly deplore the comments made regarding minorities in India…
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Can’t be oblivious to the suffering that a Muslim is enduring in Myanmar, Gaza, India: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. File | Photo Credit: Reuters/Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader India on Monday “strongly” deplored Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comment on the condition of the Muslim community in India. In a statement, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) described the remark as “unacceptable”. Mr. Khamenei had on…
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Iran’s New President Vows To Ensure Morality Police Don’t ‘Bother’ Women
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed Monday to ensure the morality police would no longer “bother” women, in remarks to the media on the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in custody. Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd, died in police custody on September 16, 2022, days after the morality police arrested her in Tehran for an…
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Mahsa Amini’s family under house arrest in Iran on second anniversary of death
The family of Mahsa Amini have reportedly been placed under house arrest on the second anniversary of the death of the 22-year old Iranian Kurdish woman, as a strike is enforced in various cities to protest her killing. Amini died after being taken into custody for wearing her hijab “inappropriately” in September 2022, sparking off…
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Visits Iraq: Messages and Significations
In his first foreign visit after being elected as Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian undertook a three-day trip to Iraq from September 11 to September 13, 2024. This visit came in response to an official invitation from Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani in July 2024 and included stops in five Iraqi cities: Erbil, Najaf, Karbala,…
