# iran - Monday 17 January, 2022
# Barbaric
From The42
# Barbaric
The news comes just over a year after the execution of wrestling champion Navid Afkari.
# iran - Sunday 21 November, 2021
# Tehran
# Tehran
Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed shortly after take-off from Iran ’s capital Tehran in January 2020, killing all 176 people aboard.
# iran - Friday 12 November, 2021
# London
# London
A vigil is planned for this evening outside the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in London where Ratcliffe is camping.
# iran - Monday 8 November, 2021
# Detained
# Detained
Richard Ratcliffe began the protest to put pressure on Boris Johnson to meet the Iran ian delegate at Cop26.
# iran - Saturday 9 October, 2021
# Global Cyber Wars
# Global Cyber Wars
Ireland must use its voice at the UN Security Council to counter rogue states’ cyber attacks, writes Sir Ivor Roberts.
# iran - Saturday 19 June, 2021
# Ebrahim Raisi
# Ebrahim Raisi
Raisi won just shy of 62% of the vote, on a voter turnout of 48.8% a record low in the Islamic republic.
# iran - Friday 18 June, 2021
# Iran
# Iran
Ebrahim Raisi is the front-runner in a field of just four candidates.
# iran - Sunday 23 May, 2021
# Tehran
# Tehran
A fifth round of talks are talking place in Vienna on rescuing the deal.
# iran - Sunday 2 May, 2021
# Breakthrough
# Breakthrough
Iran ian state TV said deals have been reached to release prisoners with Western ties held in Iran .
# iran - Monday 12 April, 2021
# Natanz
# Natanz
Iran said yesterday that the site was hit by a terrorist act.
# iran - Sunday 11 April, 2021
# Natanz
# Natanz
It is the latest incident to strike the site.
# iran - Friday 9 April, 2021
# Freed
# Freed
The MT Hankuk Chemi, held in Iran since January, sailed away from an Iran ian port city early this morning.
# iran - Thursday 8 April, 2021
# Iraq
# Iraq
The European Parliament said the trip by Mick Wallace and Clare Daly does not represent the parliament.
# iran - Sunday 14 March, 2021
# Tehran
# Tehran
Zaghari-Ratcliffe finished serving a five-year sentence last week.
# iran - Sunday 7 March, 2021
# Iran
# Iran
Ireland-Iran bilateral relations were also discussed in advance of the re-opening of an Irish diplomatic presence in Tehran.
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
The 42-year-old has completed a near five-year sentence but must appear before a court in a week.
# iran - Saturday 6 March, 2021
# Iran
# Iran
Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney will also meet with Iran ian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
# iran - Wednesday 3 March, 2021
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe’s sentence is scheduled to end this weekend.
# iran - Friday 26 February, 2021
# Retaliation
# Retaliation
The airstrike was the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration.
# iran - Sunday 14 February, 2021
# Fuel Tanker
# Fuel Tanker
More than 500 lorries lined up at the border carrying natural gas and fuel were ablaze.
# iran - Tuesday 9 February, 2021
# Sanctions
# Sanctions
A 1990s fatwa, or religious edict, by the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei states that nuclear weapons are forbidden.
# iran - Saturday 2 January, 2021
# Uranium
# Uranium
It is not yet clear when this process will begin.
# iran - Saturday 5 December, 2020
# Tehran
# Tehran
Numerous calls had spread online after the verdict was announced calling for a halt to the executions.
# iran - Monday 30 November, 2020
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
The comments came at the funeral for Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
# iran - Saturday 28 November, 2020
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in a shootout on Friday.
# iran - Friday 27 November, 2020
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
# Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh died in hospital from wounds suffered during an attack by “armed terrorists”, the country’s defence ministry said.
# Kylie Moore-Gilbert
# Kylie Moore-Gilbert
Kylie Moore-Gilbert was freed this week after 804 days behind bars.
# iran - Tuesday 17 November, 2020
# New York Times
# New York Times
According to the New York Times, senior officials “dissuaded the president from moving ahead with a military strike”.
# iran - Saturday 7 November, 2020
# Us-iran Relations
# Us-iran Relations
Trump has applied a “maximum pressure” policy against Iran since 2018.
# iran - Sunday 20 September, 2020
# Mike Pompeo
# Mike Pompeo
Security council members say Washington lost the legal ability to invoke the measure after the US withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal.
# iran - Sunday 13 September, 2020
# Iran
# Iran
The British-Iran ian national has been detained in Iran since 2016 when she was sentenced to five years in prison.
# iran - Saturday 12 September, 2020
# Navid Afkari
# Navid Afkari
US President Donald Trump had tried to save Navid Afkari’s life, arguing that his “sole act was an anti-government demonstration”.
# iran - Tuesday 21 July, 2020
# The War In Syria
# The War In Syria
A UK-based war monitor said that 11 other combatants were wounded.
# iran - Tuesday 26 May, 2020
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
# Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport in 2016.
# iran - Sunday 19 April, 2020
# Iran
# Iran
The British-Iran ian mother has been temporarily freed from Evin Prison in Tehran in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
# iran - Sunday 29 March, 2020
# Groundbreaking
From The42
# Groundbreaking
In 2001, a handful of Irish women made history by becoming the first to attend a football match in Iran in more than 20 years. They tell their story to The42.
# iran - Friday 13 March, 2020
# Retaliation
# Retaliation
A US official said multiple strikes targeted Kataib Hezbollah weapons facilities inside Iraq.
# iran - Saturday 7 March, 2020
# Coronavirus
# Coronavirus
In Greece, a row has erupted over whether to cancel Holy Communion, while China has just 99 new confirmed cases of Covid-19.
# iran - Monday 24 February, 2020
# Outbreak
# Outbreak
Three people have died in Italy, which is experiencing Europe’s first major outbreak of the virus.
# iran - Friday 14 February, 2020
# Bipartisan
# Bipartisan
The bi-partisan vote was a rare exertion of authority from Congress.
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