Asia Iran Jafar Panahi, the film director imprisoned on charges of carrying out anti-government propaganda with his work and banned from making films for 20 years, has been freed; the release came 48 hours after he began a hunger strike in protest
Asia Iran A growing number of experts and scholars is advancing theories that paint a declining era for political Islam; Iran’s current travails have intensified discussion on whether a new nationalism, more national and less Islamic, is rising in the country
Asia Iran Sky News verified and made known that 152 (120 students aged 6 to 13, and 26 teachers) of those killed when a US missile struck a primary school in Minab on day 1 of the attack on Iran have been identified cross-checking a number of sources
Asia Iran A senior Iranian cleric said women without proper hijab should not be excluded from wartime gatherings, while Nour News, affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, called for reason and moderation over ideological confrontation
Asia Iran The Straight of Hormuz will remain "completely open" for all commercial vessels as long as the ceasefire in the Middle East lasts, Foreign Minister Araghchi declared on X