Vision and Politics

UN report on human rights situation in Saudi Arabia (Part 1)
April 17, 2019
Report of the Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism on his visit to Saudi Arabia...
Iran parliament brands US troops in Middle East as terrorist
April 17, 2019
Donald Trump and the US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, announced last week that the US had designated the guards as a foreign terrorist organization, marking...
Iran’s Zarif urges countries to take position on U.S. step against Revolutionary Guards
April 15, 2019
Iran will ask the international community to take a position on the U.S. designation of its Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, Foreign Minister Mohammad...
Iran protests to France over diplomat’s nuclear comments
April 15, 2019
Iran protested to France on Sunday over comments by the French ambassador in Washington concerning Tehran’s right to enrich uranium after 2025. Tehran agreed under...
Iran suffers ‘$2bn in damages’ as flood toll continues to rise
April 15, 2019
Floods in Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than $2.2bn in damages in recent weeks, with flood warnings still in place for large swaths of the...
Egypt Withdraws from Anti-Iran ‘Arab NATO’ Alliance
April 13, 2019
Reuters reported on Wednesday that Egypt is withdrawing from the Middle East Strategic Alliance (MESA), a nascent organization proposed by the United States as an alliance against...
UAE, Saudi to help Iran flood victims
April 13, 2019
The UAE Red Crescent Authority, in coordination with the Saudi Red Crescent, have launched a joint initiative to alleviate the suffering of citizens affected by...
Iran responds to US, labels CENTCOM terrorist
April 9, 2019
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says it has designated the United States Central Command, also known as CENTCOM, and all its forces as terrorist and...
Flood-hit Iran getting no financial aid from abroad due to U.S. sanctions: statement
April 8, 2019
U.S. sanctions have prevented the Iranian Red Crescent from obtaining any foreign financial aid to assist victims of flooding that has killed at least 70...
Iran to place US Army on ‘terror list’ if Washington does the same with Revolutionary Guards
April 8, 2019
The US Army will land in the company of jihadists on Iran’s list of terrorist organizations, should Washington declare the nation’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard...
Rising floodwaters force more evacuations in Iran
April 7, 2019
Iranian authorities ordered the evacuation of six more towns in the southwestern province of Khuzestan, which is widely affected by flooding, state TV reported on...
Iranian Red Crescent says US sanctions impeding flood relief
April 6, 2019
Iranian towns and villages have been hit with floods for a second straight week as officials trade accusations over their response efforts. Meanwhile, the Iranian...
Iran floods death toll reaches 70
April 6, 2019
Floods in Iran since March have killed 70 people the head of the emergency services said on Friday according to the official IRNA News Agency....
Floods kill at least 18 in southern Iran, nearly 100 wounded
March 26, 2019
At least 18 people were killed and around 100 others were wounded in flash floods in Iran’s southern province of Fars, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news...
In Nowruz speeches, Iranian leaders vow to boost economy
March 25, 2019
Iranian leaders vowed on Thursday to control soaring prices, bring stability to the national currency and create jobs as the nation marked the end of...
Iran will never forget Halabja disaster, FM Zarif says
March 17, 2019
Neither Iran nor the Kurdish brethren will ever forget about horrors of Halabja and Sardasht chemical disasters, the Iranian foreign minister said in a tweet...
Remembering Halabja chemical attack
March 16, 2019
31 years ago Saddam Hussein committed the world’s worst chemical weapons attack on a civilian population in Kurdish northern Iraq. On March 16, 1988, government...
Iran accuses West of fuelling Islamophobia after New Zealand massacre
March 16, 2019
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani accused Western governments of encouraging Islamophobia, after the attacks on two mosques in New Zealand that killed 49 worshippers and wounded...
Trade ties in focus as Iran’s Rouhani begins Iraq visit
March 11, 2019
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sharply criticised U.S. military intervention in the Middle East on Monday as he began a first official visit to Iraq, aimed...
Iran’s president arrives in Baghdad on 3-day visit
March 11, 2019
Iraqi television says Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has arrived in Iraq, making his first official visit to the neighboring nation that Tehran once fought a...