Iranian women walk on a street amid the implementation of the new hijab surveillance in Tehran, Iran, Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS/File Photo DUBAI, April 23 (Reuters) - The same day Iran Under Iran's sharia, or Islamic law, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long, loose-fitting As Iran's drone and missile assault unfolded on April 13, Tehran Police chief Abbasali Mohammadian went On April 14, the intelligence unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned against any pro-Israeli posts

“I am the servant of the people of Iran. Khamenei praised the country for quickly holding “free and transparent elections” in the wake of President Can he bring change to Iran? Chatham House think tank in London, said it’s unlikely that Pezeshkian’s election would immediately translate Rhetoric between Iran and Israel escalated last week as Iran’s mission to the United Nations said that

mandatory headscarf walks past a mural in Tehran in February.Morteza Nikoubazl / NurPhoto via Getty Images Iran The campaign began last month just as military tensions spiked between Iran and Israel . consequences,” Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the New York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran “Women and girls in Iran are already subjected to severe discrimination in Iran, yet these actions significantly Tehran police chief Abbasali Mohammadian announced the operation on state TV on April 13, just as Iran

The reason is not that it has been better governed than any other part of India (although this may well opinion polls carried out  in 2002 and 2009-10 by MORI (now renamed IPSOS) and Gallup have shown, more than 90% of the people of the Valley want only peace and a return to democracy, and fewer than 6% would prefer In 2023, Jammu and Kashmir  received more than 21 million tourists . If the Modi government decides to fall into this trap, it will bring war in Kashmir and an explosion

By Gershom Gorenberg Israeli soldiers guarding the Israel-Gaza border on Tuesday. (Ariel Schalit/AP) Here are the two takes from the Israeli military on the Gaza border clashes on Monday, during which soldiers killed at least 60 Palestinians: “We won.” And, “Well, not so much.” “We won” is my abbreviation of the banner headline in the daily Yediot Ahronot. As the paper’s military commentator explained, the army kept demonstrators from crossing the border and entering Israeli communities, and no Israelis were hurt. If you measure victory by whether you held your territory, and by the relative body count, that’s a win. “Not so much” is the very short version of what an Israel Defense Forces spokesman reportedly said during a briefing organized by the Jewish Federations of North America on Tuesday. Explaining why the army hadn’t been able to keep down civilian casualties, Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus said, “Hamas wanted people to die. Hamas wanted the pictures of the wounded.” The result, he admitted, was a public-relations “knockout.” If you knew that the point of the demonstrations was to call world attention to Gaza, and if you believed that Hamas wanted casualties for that purpose, then victory would have meant containing the demonstrations with a minimum of injuries. The death toll was a military defeat, even before we discuss the moral cost, and an investigation is essential. It’s very possible that the army, belatedly, will develop better nonlethal means for controlling mass demonstrations at a distance. If the new methods succeed, though, they will only underscore the interlocked problems Israel’s army has had for years regarding its dealings with Gaza. First, it has sometimes been slow in accepting that it needs new tactics as Hamas and other militants change theirs. Second, tactical successes will never be enough when the government you serve has no strategy to end to the conflict. The Gaza Strip, with its crowded refugee camps and dearth of hope, was once a source of terror attacks, in Israel and against Israeli settlers in the area. With a well-guarded border fence and checkpoints, Israel made it much more difficult for terrorists to cross into Israel. In 2005, Ariel Sharon’s government removed the settlements and the soldiers who protected them in its unilateral withdrawal. By then, Hamas and other radical factions were attacking over the fence, with mortar shells and rockets. The answer to that was Iron Dome, Israel’s sophisticated antimissile system. In the early days, then-Defense Minister Amir Peretz had to overcome resistance from the generals to budget Iron Dome. Yet even before Iron Dome was ready, Hamas and its rivals were digging tunnels under the fence. The army ignored experts’ proposal for high-tech means of detecting tunnels until the Gaza War of 2014, when the shock of attacks from below ground spurred an Israeli ground invasion. Israel is now using technology to find existing tunnels, and building an underground barrier to block new ones. To which Hamas has responded with mass marches aimed at going through the fence. I don’t know if anyone in the organization really expected to get through or to carry out the promise of Palestinian return to long-lost homes in what became Israel. The immediate goal, though, was to focus the world’s attention on the blockade of Gaza and to the stalled Palestinian struggle against Israel. I certainly hope the Israeli army finds nonlethal tactical responses. That is a moral imperative in itself. But the army can’t solve the underlying political problem of Gaza. And Israel’s current leaders have no answer, no vision of a plausible peaceful outcome. By “disengaging” from Gaza in 2005, Sharon hoped to disengage from any diplomatic process with the Palestinians. The policy of Netanyahu’s government — as shown by its deeds if not always by its statements — is to maintain Israeli rule of the West Bank, with the Palestinian Authority as a subcontractor for endless occupation. Yet there is no political solution for Gaza without the West Bank. So the Israeli government relates to Gaza as a chronic, incurable disease and relies on the army to come up with new prescriptions to relieve the pain. Without an outside intervention, the next spasm of Gaza fever seems inevitable. (c) 2018 The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/05/16/with-no-plan-for-peace-even-if-it-wins-israel-will-always-lose/?utm_term=.5073f992712c

Instead, Iran had been expected to leave the response to Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group, whose top Instead, Iran had been expected to leave the response to Lebanon’s Hezbollah terror group, whose top The report said that the issue was divisive within Iran. ’s military preparations suggested Iran was getting ready for a large-scale attack on Israel. Asked by reporters on Saturday “What’s your message to Iran?”

concern about persistent reports of torture, enforced or involuntary disappearances, and the forcible transfer Some condemned Pyongyang’s deployment of troops and transfer of missiles to aid in the Russian Federation regrets that “the draft resolution fails to include, among others, stronger language on the cessation of transfer called on Tehran to grant access to the Special Rapporteur and the Fact-Finding Mission to provide transparency Such arrangements should neither be politicized nor be selective, but rather remain impartial, transparent

But the move follows backlash to Iran's strong-armed approach in Iraqi Kurdistan, including deadly air Members of Kurdish opposition parties cast the pressure by Iran, which follows the signing last year Many Iranian-Kurdish political parties and factions opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran are based Baghdad's dealings with Iran have been fraught with controversy. Multiple strikes have been carried out by Iran in the Kurdistan region, including a missile attack on

Iran's national flag flies in the capital, Tehran [File: Vahid Salemi/AP] Iran’s persecution of its Baha Human Rights Watch alleged in a report released on Monday that Iran’s largest non-Muslim minority has sources, including government policies, court documents, and interviews with Baha’is in and out of Iran Unlike other minorities, Baha’is do not have their faith recognised by Iran’s constitution and have no How many members of the community remain in Iran is not known, but activists believe there could still

Covering the neck and head has been compulsory for women in Iran since 1983, following the 1979 Islamic

Amnesty says , are awaiting execution following their involvement in the "Woman Life Freedom" uprising in Iran Amnesty International reported last month that 853 people were executed in Iran in 2023, a record number

Particularly telling are the frequent attacks on infrastructure projects, such as the 4,300-kilometer Trans-Papua local culture and facilitate the extraction of the region’s rich natural resources, while facilitating transmigration Over the past five years, particularly since the attack on the Trans-Papua Highway, Papua province in