LAGOS SEPTEMBER 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran and the U.S. executed the final steps of a highly complex diplomatic deal that saw five Americans released from an Iranian prison on Monday. The prisoners landed safely on U.S. soil on Tuesday morning after years spent locked away in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. President Biden released a statement praising the…
LAGOS JUNE 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Fifteen people have died of alcohol poisoning in Iran after consuming bootleg booze, state media reported on Wednesday, as the number of similar deaths increases across the country. ‘So far, 15 people have died and 180 people have been poisoned and hospitalised,’ Hossein Fazeli Harikandi, the chief justice of Alborz province, where…
LAGOS JANUARY 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran said Saturday it executed a former high-ranking defense ministry official and dual Iranian-British national, despite international warnings not to carry out the death sentence. The execution further escalated tensions with the West amid the nationwide anti-government protests shaking the Islamic Republic. The hanging of Ali Reza Akbari, a close ally of…
LAGOS JANUARY 9TH (NEWSRAGERS)-Iran’s judiciary has sentenced three more anti-government protesters to death on charges of “waging war on God”, its Mizan news agency reported on Monday, defying growing international criticism over its fierce crackdown on demonstrators. Iran hanged two other men on Saturday, one of them a karate champion with several national titles, in…
LAGOS DECEMBER 28TH (NEWSRANGERS)- A prominent former soccer player in Iran who has expressed support for anti-government protests says his wife and daughter were prevented from leaving the country on Monday after their plane made an unannounced stopover en route to Dubai. Ali Daei, who had his own passport briefly confiscated after returning to the…
LAGOS NOVEMBER 15TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The U.N. human rights office is calling on Iran’s government to immediately release thousands of people who have been detained for participating in peaceful protests, faulting its “increasing harshness” as Western countries seek to ratchet up scrutiny of Tehran’s crackdown against demonstrators. Spokesman Jeremy Laurence of the office of the U.N. High…
LAGOS OCTOBER 25TH (MEWSRANGERS)-An Iranian man, Amou Haji, nicknamed the “dirtiest man in the world” for not taking a shower for decades has died at the age of 94, state media reported on Tuesday. Haji, who did not wash for more than half a century and was single, died on Sunday in the village of…
LAGOS JULY 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-The top U.S. Air Force general in the Middle East warned on Thursday that Iran-backed militias could resume attacks in the region against the United States and its allies as tensions rise — assaults that could lead to a new Mideast escalation. Speaking to journalists before stepping into his new role at…