Iran‘s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has fired a missile from a helicopter targeting a replica aircraft carrier in the strategic Strait of Hormuz. The exercises – dubbed ‘Prophet Mohammed 14th’ – were held near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of global oil output. State television reported the exercise on Tuesday, … Read more
Undercover morality agent SPITS at teenage girls, asks ‘where’s your owner’ and says ‘I’ll f*** your mother’ after seeing them without hijab in Iran Morality agent confronted the teenagers at side of a road in Kermanshah, Iran Girls ask ‘why aren’t you doing anything?’ to police officer who watches on Wearing a hijab has been compulsory … Read more
Open secret: Iranian spies accidentally leak videos of themselves showing how to hack and steal data from email accounts Video of Iran-backed hackers training other hackers was uploaded by mistake Footage showed hackers combing through email accounts and copying data The footage was spotted by IBM’s X-Force security team and shared with Wired The rare … Read more
Yara Shahidi speaks out against executions in Iran and acknowledges the dangers for her family living there: ‘If you know me, you know I value life’ By Dan Heching For Dailymail.com Published: 08:15 BST, 16 July 2020 | Updated: 12:59 BST, 16 July 2020 Yara Shahidi is speaking out against scheduled executions of anti-government protestors … Read more
Two men have been killed in yet another Iran explosion, as officials blamed ‘human error’ for the blast. The explosion rocked the Sepahan Boresh factory in the city of Baqershahr, south of Tehran, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, according to state media. It was caused by ‘workers being negligent whilst filling oxygen tanks’, the … Read more
Iran says its nuclear site suffered ‘significant’ damage in mysterious accident that will slow the production of enriched uranium One of Iran’s main uranium enrichment plants was damaged on Thursday The Natanz nuclear facility suffered damage to its roof, walls and doors Isreal has been accused of masterminding the damage through a cyber-attack The attack could … Read more
Iranian star of Oscar-winner The Salesman is given five-month jail sentence for ‘propaganda’ after posting a video of morality police attacking a woman for not wearing a hijab Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti starred in 2017 Oscar winner The Salesman She has been sentenced to five months in prison for ‘propaganda activities’ Her jail term was … Read more
A new species of velvet spider has been named after actor and animal rights activist Joaquin Phoenix for his role in the 2019 film ‘Joker.’ The creature was discovered in Iran and given its name due to the male’s abdominal pattern that resembles the famous facial makeup worn by Phoenix in the movie. Named Loureedia … Read more
Queen Elizabeth II may have played an important but unwitting role in the coup against Iran‘s prime minister because of a muddled telegram, newly-discovered documents have revealed. Communications found in Washington DC’s archives show bungling US officials accidentally told the Shah of Iran that the monarch had urged him to stay in his country to … Read more
Fifteen million Iranians may have been infected with coronavirus since Iran’s outbreak started in February, one of the country’s top health officials admitted today. The figure represents 18.75 per cent of the more than 80 million population of Iran, which is around one in five. ‘About 15 million Iranians may have experienced being infected with … Read more
Iran has become the first country in the world to report a second wave of coronavirus infections after easing its lockdown. The Middle Eastern nation logged a record 3,574 cases of the virus on Wednesday, beating its previous worst day of 3,186 cases logged on March 30. Iran began easing its lockdown restrictions – which were … Read more
Protests over the death of George Floyd have swept across the globe with demonstrations from Poland to New Zealand in solidarity with US demonstrators caught up in violent riots. Thousands rallied outside the US embassies in London, Copenhagen and Berlin, chanting ‘I can’t breathe,’ the words Floyd gasped as a white police officer knelt on … Read more
Harrowing footage shows sick people collapsing in streets across Iran, amid allegations that the country’s coronavirus pandemic started in the Chinese embassy in Tehran three weeks before its first official case was announced. In one of the clips, a man slumps on the kerb in Zahedan, southeast Iran, coughing and clearly in severe pain. In … Read more