Outrage as Iran is selected to sit on put on UN women’s rights panel

Outrage as Iran is selected to sit on UN women’s rights panel despite laws banning female sports, making the hijab compulsory and forcing married women to get their husband’s permission to leave the country Iran has been elected to sit on UN’s committee on women’s rights for four years Masih Alinejad, a US-based activist said … Read more

Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s ex-husband seen with lover for the first time since they began relationship

Aussie academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s ex-husband has been seen out and about with his new lover for the first since having an affair while she was imprisoned in a hellhole Iranian jail as she declared she no longer cares about him.    Dr Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November in a prisoner … Read more

Tehran names Natanz ‘saboteur’ | Daily Mail Online

Iran has named a suspect in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country ‘hours before’ the sabotage happened. While the extent of the damage from the April 11 sabotage remains unclear, it comes as Iran tries to negotiate with world powers over allowing the U.S. … Read more

Tehran names Natanz ‘sabatuer’ | Daily Mail Online

Iran has named a suspect in the attack on its Natanz nuclear facility that damaged centrifuges there, saying he had fled the country ‘hours before’ the sabotage happened. While the extent of the damage from the April 11 sabotage remains unclear, it comes as Iran tries to negotiate with world powers over allowing the U.S. … Read more

Living in busy city doesn’t increase chances of catching Covid, says Iran contact-tracing app data

Living in a busy city doesn’t increase the chance of getting Covid-19, but overcrowding does, a new study reveals. Researchers analysed cases in Tehran, Iran, one of the early epicentres of the pandemic, using data from AC-19, Iran’s national Covid ‘detection’ app.  AC-19, which was withdrawn from Google‘s app store last year over alleged concerns of government spying, … Read more

Iranian state TV cut away from Tottenham vs Manchester United over 100 times due to female referee

Iranian state TV channel cut away from live coverage of Tottenham v Manchester United more than A HUNDRED times ‘to avoid showing the bare legs of the female assistant referee’ Iranian state TV censored their live broadcast of Tottenham vs Manchester Utd The broadcast was censored ‘over 100 times’ because of a female referee Live … Read more

Iran says it will begin enriching uranium to 60%, nearing the 90% level needed for military use 

Iran said it will begin enriching uranium to 60 per cent, to its highest ever level, moving the country a step closer to the 90 per cent threshold needed for military use. It comes two days after an explosion, which Iran blamed on Israel, damaged its enrichment plant in Natanz. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed … Read more

Natanz attack: Iran vows ‘revenge’ as finger of blame pointed at Israel

Iran’s foreign minister has blamed Israel for what Tehran called a ‘terrorist attack’ on one of is nuclear facilities, and has vowed to ‘take revenge’.  Mohammad Javad Zarif accused Israel of targeting the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility as revenge for Iran’s moves to have US sanctions lifted. ‘The Zionists want to take revenge because of … Read more

Israel ‘launches cyber attack’ on Iran nuclear facility as Tehran decries ‘act of nuclear terrorism’

Israel ‘launches cyber attack’ on Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility as Tehran decries ‘act of nuclear terrorism’ a day after launching new uranium enrichment tech at site The cyber attack on Sunday took place one day after Tehran unveiled new centrifuges key to the country’s uranium enrichment programme  Iran has called on the U.N nuclear watchdog … Read more