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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday announced a four-month ban on all cryptocurrency mining, citing widespread power outages that have hamstrung the Islamic Republic earlier than usual this year. “Today everybody has a few miners laying around and are producing bitcoins,” the frustrated Rouhani told his cabinet. The practice of …
Read More »Iran’s Guardian Council Predetermines Election Results
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday expressed his support for the nation’s Guardian Council decision, announced Wednesday, to disqualify a string of reformist candidates from running in the upcoming presidential elections. The move, which all but ensures victory for hard-liner Ebrahim Raisi, who currently serves as Iran’s chief …
Read More »Egypt sets conditions for full normalization with Turkey
Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry laid down several conditions that would serve as a basis for normalizing ties with Turkey, in light of the recent attempts at rapprochement between the two countries. In light of the recent attempts at rapprochement between Cairo and Ankara, Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry listed …
Read More »Prominent disqualified candidates urge Iranians to still vote
Despite being disqualified to run by the country’s Guardian Council, several major Reformist and centrist figures are still calling on citizens to go to the polls. Iranians continue to react to the decision to bar well-known Reformists and centrists from running in next month’s presidential elections. Iran’s Guardian Council, a …
Read More »Tehran hard-liner council bans leading centrists from presidential race
Iran’s Guardian Council disqualified all the major moderate contenders from the country’s presidential election, paving the way for a one-sided race and an anticipated victory for hard-line judicial chief Ibrahim Raisi. The lengths Iran’s Guardian Council went to to squash the presidential hopes of top moderates shocked even many hard-liners …
Read More »Iran Announces Final Seven Candidates In Presidential Election
The seven final candidates for the post of president in Iran were announced by the Ministry of Interior some three weeks before the election day. The list of seven figures deemed qualified to run for taking office at the Pasteur Street of Tehran was made public on Tuesday after a …
Read More »Why The Iranian Regime Will Collapse – OpEd
The death penalty is irreversible therefore it must be abolished. According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the death penalty violates the very basic human rights. Article 3 states that everyone has the right to life, liberty, and security of person. A report published in 2015 stated that Iran …
Read More »Ahmadinejad wants to run for president of Iran, again
The former president is remembered fondly by some Iranians for his populism and for offering loan programs. He was often portrayed as a modest ‘Mr. Clean’ but this is disputed by others. A decade ago, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad appeared to be the nemesis of Israel. His questioning of the …
Read More »Iran’s Quds Force chief tells Islamic Jihad it defeated ‘Zionist pride’
The comments made by Esmail Ghaani, the head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, praised death and martyrdom and said fighters welcome death with ‘longing and passion.’ The recent war against Israel “destroyed the pride of the Zionist army,” Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force Commander Esmail Ghaani …
Read More »Iran thinks Hamas ‘victory’ will lead to new attack on Israel
Iran helped push the war with Gaza but was concerned that Hamas and its other proxies would lose badly. Instead, they perceive a surprising victory. The fuse lit by Hamas will become the “fire” for a new operation in the future, according to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency. The report, reflecting …
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