Two of the “hardliner” candidates in Iran’s sham presidential “election” dropped out on Thursday, urging their followers to unite against the lone “moderate” among the four remaining candidates, Masoud Pezeshkian.
Iran’s theocratic Guardian Council on Sunday announced six candidates have been approved to run for the emergency election on June 28 to replace President Ebrahim Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19.
The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash this month has prompted two scrambles for power, both for power and for Raisi’s place as a leading candidate to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as “supreme leader.”
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their custody sparked nationwide protests.
A power struggle looks to be brewing in the junta ruling Afghanistan, as Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani – an FBI Most Wanted terrorist, New York Times published commentator, and leader of the Haqqani Network – lodged a bit of veiled public criticism against Taliban Supreme Leader Hibatullah Akhundzada over the weekend.
The “overthrow” of the Islamic regime of Iran is “inevitable,” as it has “failed” in quelling the current uprising, according to a leading member of Iran’s parliament-in-exile, who called on the Biden administration and international community to increase sanctions and “terminate” all diplomatic and political ties with “barbaric” Tehran.
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) – A Pakistani court on Saturday convicted a Muslim professor of blasphemy, sentencing him to death for allegedly spreading anti-Islamic ideas.
Jeremy Corbyn has been slammed for allegedly making an Islamist salute, with the gesture linked to a radical anti-Semitic group.
Iran has detained a teenager who made dance videos in her bedroom and then posted them on social media. Maedeh Hojabri, 18, had garnered 60,000 followers before her arrest and her offending Instagram account shut down.
