An attack on a military parade in Iran is likely to prompt Iranian retaliation against opposition groups at home and abroad. It also deepens Iranian fears that the United States, Saudi Arabia and others may seek to destabilize the country.

Over the past 6 months, the value of Rial has halved that of various foreign currencies.

Dozens of student associations in Iran have criticized the recent verdicts against students and have warned that they won’t allow “the totalitarian forces to target freedom and liberty again”.

Iran ranks first in the world, in brain drain; with around 25% of its educated people currently living in developed countries.

When our allies have to question America’s commitment on agreements and when a nation burns our flag, the decorum displays America’s foreign policy headed in a terrible direction.

Iran is faced with a crisis as there is still enough drug reserve in the country, but for some reasons the drugs are not made available to all patients.

Those who wait with baited breath for a stinging European response to America’s withdrawal from the multi-lateral Iran nuclear deal should prepare to be marginally disappointed.

After nearly 52 days on hunger strike, political prisoner Golrokh Iraee is in critical conditions in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, west of Tehran.

It’s the pot calling the kettle black. As Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of seeking to encircle it with its support for Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as Qatar, the kingdom and the Islamic republic are extending their bitter rivalry beyond the Middle East into the Caucasus.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears in the wake of recent anti-government protests to have put his weight behind President Hasan Rouhani’s repeated calls for reduced military and Revolutionary Guards involvement in the economy.

To organize the ongoing protests and anti-government demonstrations in Iran, the Iranian people have been using social media. It has enabled them to arrange protests and to share information.

Roughly 66,000 people in Iran have HIV and almost half of them are unaware, according to estimates by the Iranian Regime, but as the Regime routinely underreports statistics that make the country look bad, it is likely this number is much higher.

In mid-October, Donald Trump outlined a strategy to defeat the Iranian regime that was dedicated to countering Iran’s regional destabilisation, support of terrorism and use of ballistic weapons, as well as its illicit nuclear programme.