Asia Iran On the 45th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, the country launched an ambitious environmental initiative with the inauguration of 67 projects, covering 17 provinces, to combat pollution and promote sustainable practices
Asia Iran The websites of Iranian parliament and its affiliated news agency were disabled after a cyber-attack claimed by 'Uprising till Overthrow', affiliated to exiled opposition group People's Mujahedin Organisation of Iran, considered a terrorist organisation
Asia Iran Three satellites were successfully launched for the first time using the carrier rocket developed by the Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics and will be used to test communication and geopositioning technologies
Asia Iran Iranians in 15 countries including Canada, the US, Iraq and others in the EU demonstrated as part of the global 'No to Executions' campaign against the increase in death sentences in Iran
Asia Iran New drone Shahed-107 has been developed in Iran and could be used by Russia to target western air defence systems in Ukraine, reported Sky News, whose security source said that the device can operate as an explosive and a reconnaissance aircraft
Asia Iran The release of a Spanish national detained in Iran was a “humane” step, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kanaani said; Santiago Sanchez Cogedor was held as protests were roiling Iran after the death in custody of the young Iranian Mahsa Amini
Asia Iran A new border crossing between Iran and Azerbaijan was inaugurated in the presence of Iranian and Azerbaijani officials during a ceremony at the shared border
Asia Iran On the day the Nobel Prize was awarded, on the stage at Oslo City Hall, an empty chair represented Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi, in the presence of her twin children Kiana and Ali, who, in exile in France since 2015, read their mother's speech
Asia Iran Behrouz Chamanara, a language professor at the University of Kurdistan, was fired in September, shortly after the local intelligence office rejected his qualifications; Chamanara declared that dismissals are used to 'impose silence' in universities
Asia Iran The Iranian men's weightlifting team took first place at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships 2023 in Mexico, after collecting five gold, nine silver and one bronze medal
Asia Iran According to one of two confidential International Atomic Energy Agency reports viewed by Reuters, the country continues to stonewall the agency in monitoring its work; it would have enough uranium enriched to 60% purity to produce three bombs
Asia Iran An Iranian court ordered a five-year prison sentence against a French citizen tried on national security charges; France called the sentence 'unacceptable' as there appears to be no evidence to support it
Asia Iran The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought - awarded by the European Parliament - went this year to Iranian Mahsa Jina Amini and the 'Woman, Life, Freedom' movement