TEHRAN — Iran’s intelligence operatives have arrested two, and possibly three, Iranians with British connections in the past two months, human rights activists and others said Thursday. At least two of the three Iranians in question are also British citizens, and the arrests may be part of an ...
Britain’s Foreign Office said on Thursday that a British citizen reported to have been arrested in Iran is not currently being detained by authorities there. Independent news site Iran Wire reported the arrest of a dual British-Iranian national named Mahan Abedin on Wednesday, citing an ...
based Iranian woman working for a British cultural organization has been detained in Iran for the past 50 days, a family member has revealed. A cousin of Aras Amiri, 32, announced her detention in a series of Twitter posts beginning Tuesday. , a postdoctoral fellow at Rutgers University in New ...
These are external links and will open in a new window/ Two people with links to the UK have been arrested in Iran, according to the Foreign Office and the British Council. Mahan Abedin has dual Iranian and British citizenship - while Aras Amiri is an Iranian living in London who works for the ...
British officials are seeking information on reports that authorities in Tehran have detained a British-Iranian national and an Iranian employee of the British Council. The British Foreign Office on May 2 told the Associated Press it was "urgently seeking information from the Iranian ...
Iran Wire agency/ BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran has detained a British-Iranian dual national who works as a security analyst, the independent news site Iran Wire reported on Wednesday, the second such arrest since mid-April. Iran Wire said it had received word of the arrest of Mahan Abedin in the past ...
British national and an Iranian working for the British Council who traveled to Iran on a private trip to visit family have been detained in Iran, becoming the latest individuals with Western ties held in the Islamic Republic. The British Foreign Office told The Associated Press on Wednesday ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky lawmakers gave final approval Thursday to a bill stripping the state's Democratic governor of any role in picking someone to occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader The legislation calls for a ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Chairman of the Board of the Eurasian Economic Commission (EEC) Bakytzhan Sagintayev in Moscow/ MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia has no designs on any NATO country and will not attack Poland, the Baltic states or the Czech Republic but if the West supplies ...
A giant anaconda has been found dead in the Brazilian Amazon, possibly killed by a gunshot wound, according to a Dutch researcher who studies snakes and recently helped discover a giant anaconda that was a contender for the largest snake in the world. The snake found dead is not the same as the ...
U.S. President Biden hosts a Juneteenth concert at the White House in Washington/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - The woman who admitted to stealing President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley's diary and helping sell it to conservative activists could face arrest as soon as Friday after skipping her sentencing, ...
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Amit Soussana has become the first Israeli woman to speak publicly about enduring what she says was a sexual assault and other forms of violence during her 55 days in captivity following the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, according to reporting by The New York Times on Tuesday. ...
run government media office says 18 Palestinians have been killed while trying to collect desperately-needed aid that was airdropped over northern Gaza. Twelve people drowned when they went into the sea to retrieve food packages, according to a statement. The other six were trampled to death in ...
Ecuador’s youngest mayor and her press officer were found Sunday shot to death in a vehicle amid an ongoing state of emergency, police said. , the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente and member of the left-wing Citizen Revolution Party, was found alongside her advisor, Jairo Loor, in the vehicle, ...
and why so many women are getting randomly punched in the face while just walking down the street? on Monday, you may have come across a video of a woman telling her story about being punched in the face as she walked down the street. And then scrolling further, you may have come across another. ...
A United Nations human rights expert says she believes Israel has committed "acts of genocide" in Gaza./ Francesca Albanese will present her report on Tuesday to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva./ But it has already been dismissed by Israel, whose ambassador described it as "an outrageous ...