Iran

Political anger with Iran over the death of Masha Amini has raised its ugly head once more in the public sphere. This time, it was when CNN’s Christiane Amanpour refused to wear a hijab for an interview with Iranian...

The escalating anti-hijab protests in Iran emanating from the death of a young woman upon detention by morality police have witnessed women in the lead as they resort to burning headscarves. Since the death of Mahsa Amini in hospital on...

NATO member Turkey recently signaled its intention to join the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), a regional grouping led by Russia and China. Iran has also applied to join the group. “Our relations with these countries will be moved to a...

Iran has sentenced two LGBT activists to death, human rights groups reported on Tuesday. A court in Urmia found Zahra Seddiqi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Choubdar, 24, guilty of "corruption on Earth." The Hengaw Organization for Human Rights reported that they were accused...

Greek-American Representatives Nicole Malliotakis (NY-11) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) slammed the trilateral meeting between Erdogan, Putin, and Raisi earlier in the week in Tehran. In a bipartisan statement, the two Greek-American politicians noted that "one picture is worth 1,000 words." They...

Kouros Durmohamadi Bagi, a refugee from Iran in Greece who amazed the country after excelling in the Greek national exams, will become a mentor for other young refugees in the country. The young man, who is called Kyros after the...

On Tuesday, Greece released Iran's Lana tanker that was seized in April, Ιran's Ports and Maritime Organisation (PMO) announced. The semi-official Mehr News Agency, quoting Iranian officials, said that the oil cargo will be returned to its owner. "With the swift...

On Wednesday, a Greek court overturned an earlier court ruling allowing for the confiscation of part of an Iranian ship's cargo by the United States. The ship in question is an Iranian-flagged tanker off the Greek coast. The incident had...

Iran released footage of the Revolutionary Guards storming the two Greek oil tankers in the Gulf last Friday in apparent retaliation against Greece's seizure of Iranian crude oil cargo. Armed Revolutionary Guars are seen landing by navy helicopters on the...

Greece's Foreign Affairs Ministry submitted a strong demarche to Iran's ambassador in Athens concerning the "violent seizure" of two Greek-flagged ships by Iranian naval forces in the Persian Gulf on Friday. This was carried out by the ministry's General Secretary...