Tag: Iran

FILE - This undated file photo released by his family via FreeAmir.org shows Amir Hekmati. Hekmati, a former U.S. Marine being held in Iran over the past two years on accusations of spying for the CIA. (AP Photo/Hekmati family via FreeAmir.org, File)

National Security

Former US Marine Imprisoned in Iran seeks retrial

Nasser Karimi · May 25, 2014 7:54 pm

In this picture Feb. 18, 2012 photo, released by the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, Mahafarid Amir Khosravi speaks at his trial in a court in Tehran, Iran. Khosravi, a billionaire businessman at the heart of a $2.6 billion state bank scam, the largest fraud case since the country's 1979 Islamic Revolution, was executed Saturday, state television reported. Authorities put Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansour Aria, to death at Evin prison, just north of the capital, Tehran, the station reported. The report said the execution came after Iran's Supreme Court upheld his death sentence. (AP Photo/ISNA, Hamid Foroutan)

Iran billionaire executed over $2.6B bank fraud

Washington Examiner · May 24, 2014 3:16 pm

UN: Iran cuts uranium closest to nuke-arms grade

UN: Iran cuts uranium closest to nuke-arms grade

George Jahn · May 23, 2014 5:25 pm

Iran cleric condemns ‘satanic’ divorce parties

Iran cleric condemns ‘satanic’ divorce parties

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · May 23, 2014 3:08 pm

FILE - This Dec. 6, 2013 file image posted on his official Instagram account shows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani hiking in the Tochal mountain area north of Tehran, Iran. A court in Iran has ordered that the photo-sharing app Instagram be blocked in the Islamic Republic over privacy concerns, the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported Friday, May 22, 2014. (AP Photo/Office of Hassan Rouhani via Instagram, File)

Report: Iran court orders Instagram blocked

ALI AKBAR DAREINI · May 23, 2014 10:59 am

Russian, Iranian defense ministers meet

Russian, Iranian defense ministers meet

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 10:57 am

Iranian actress Leila Hatami may be publicly flogged for greeting the Cannes Film Festival president with a kiss on the cheek. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Beltway Confidential

Iranian actress faces public caning for peck on cheek

Ashe Schow · May 22, 2014 8:45 pm

Iran opposition activist free after serving term

Iran opposition activist free after serving term

Washington Examiner · May 22, 2014 7:43 pm

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani wipes his cheek as he speaks during a press conference at a hotel in Shanghai, China, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Rouhani says an agreement on curbing its nuclear program is "very likely" by July despite a snag in talks last week, but said negotiations might also be extended. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

National Security

West says rifts remain over Iran nuke pact

George Jahn · May 22, 2014 6:28 pm

In this frame grab taken from video posted to YouTube, people dance to Pharrell Williams' hit song "Happy" on a rooftop in Tehran, Iran. Police in Iran have arrested six young people and shown them on state television for posting the video. While the song has sparked similar videos all over the world, in Iran some see the trend as promoting the spread of Western culture. And women are banned from dancing in public or appearing outside without the hijab in the Islamic Republic. (AP Photo)

‘Happy’ video arrests highlight tensions in Iran

Ali Akbar, dareiniadam-schreck · May 21, 2014 11:40 pm

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., right, accompanied by Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., holds a poster with the image and story of one of his constituents, Amir Hekmati, a former Marine incarcerated in Iran since 2011, during a gathering in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, with family members and supporters calling for Hekmati's release. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

National Security

Ex-Marine’s family seeks his freedom from Iran

Washington Examiner · May 19, 2014 5:16 pm

Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrives for a press briefing for Iranian journalists after the closed-door nuclear talks at the International Center in Vienna, Austria, Friday, May 16, 2014. Talks between Iran and six world powers hit a major snag Friday over the future size of a nuclear program that Tehran says it needs to expand to fuel atomic reactors, but which the U.S. fears could be used to make nuclear weapons. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

National Security

Iran nuclear talks round ends with big setbacks

George Jahn · May 16, 2014 8:02 pm