Iran
As Iran applauds BLM, Afghan minority short on rights
While the Iranian government points to the "Black Lives Matter" movement as proof of American hypocrisy, Iran's Afghan minority has a different take.
Ali Dadpay | | Jul 8, 2020
Afghan boys play football at the Shahid Nasseri refugee camp in Taraz Nahid village near the city of Saveh, some 130 kms southwest of the capital Tehran, on Feb. 8, 2015. Photo by BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP via Getty Images.
Iran’s Rouhani stands by foreign minister after parliament slurs
The fragility of the Iran nuclear deal and its bleak prospects have given Iran’s hard-liners the upper hand in their domestic battle against moderate forces.
Al-Monitor Staff | Iran Deal | Jul 8, 2020
Iran cuts oil production and storage is nearly full amid pandemic, US sanctions
Reuters reported that Iran's onshore storage facilities are nearly full while production is at its lowest point since the Iran-Iraq war.
Al-Monitor Staff | Oil and gas | Jul 8, 2020
Iran sets record daily deaths from coronavirus
Iran marked its highest daily mortality rate in the coronavirus pandemic as hospitals are increasingly overstretched amid an exponential influx of new cases.
Al-Monitor Staff | Coronavirus | Jul 7, 2020
UN expert calls US killing of Soleimani 'unlawful'
The UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions called the US strike an “arbitrary killing” that threatens to undermine norms of military conflict between countries.
Al-Monitor Staff | Iran-US tensions | Jul 7, 2020
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