The mummified remains of a sheep have been discovered in a salt mine in Iran, and it has perfectly preserved soft tissue still attached to the bone, according to experts. An international team of geneticists and archaeologists sequenced DNA from the 1,600-year-old sheep mummy found at the ancient Iranian Chehrābād salt mine, about 230 miles from Tehran … Read more
Iran’s only nuclear power plant suffers mysterious emergency shutdown that will last up to four days and cause blackouts Official from the state electric company said plant shutdown began yesterday He went on to say that power outages could happen but didn’t explain further First time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the Bushehr … Read more
Revealed: Iran’s ‘ghost armada’ of 123 sanction-busting tankers is selling black market oil to China to bankroll its secret nuclear programme Iran has almost doubled its fleet sailing under other countries’ flags to 123 Let China smuggle up to million barrels of oil per day, two-thirds UK’s daily rise Intelligence experts warn growing fleet shows … Read more
The world’s first guide to hotels in Iran is out next month. And anyone who’s dubious about its contents, that it can’t surely showcase anything enticing, is in for a surprise. Persian Nights – Amazing Boutique Hotels & Guesthouses in Iran, published by teNeues (www.teneues.com), is authored by Thomas Wegmann, who travelled from the top to … Read more
Russia and China are using cyber attacks to ‘steal, sabotage and ransack’ the West, Dominic Raab warns as he reveals EIGHTY universities, colleges and schools were targeted by ransomware in March Raab speaking at National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference today Says authoritarian regimes are using technology to attack international system Reveals 80 universities/schools hit … Read more
The US Coast Guard fired 30 warning shots after 13 Iranian armed speedboats came within yards of seven American military vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said some of the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards of six U.S. military vessels escorting the guided-missile submarine Georgia. … Read more
Refugee nurses are being recruited into the NHS on a fast-track scheme to help in the UK’s fight against coronavirus. In the first scheme of its kind, Liverpool John Moores University are offering refugees a four-week course to bring them on to the frontline of hospitals across the country. At the moment nurses who have … Read more
Iranian state TV claims Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will be freed after the UK ‘paid £400million military debt’ – but the British mother’s family say they have heard nothing Iranian State TV quoted anonymous official claiming UK had agreed to pay debt Channel reported deals had been reached to release prisoners with Western ties However, UK officials … Read more
Veteran Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow will quit at the end of this year after 32 years at the helm of the programme, the broadcaster announced today. The 73-year-old journalist, who has spent 45 years at ITN, will leave the programme as its longest-serving presenter ever – but will continue to work with Channel … Read more
A growing list of Republicans – including several potential 2024 presidential candidates – is trashing Biden climate envoy John Kerry following a new claim by a top Iranian diplomat in a leaked recording, and one GOP Senator wants Kerry’s resignation. Kerry on Monday emphatically denied telling Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif information about Israeli attacks … Read more