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…
LAGOS MARCH 14TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran claimed responsibility Sunday for a missile barrage that struck near a sprawling U.S. consulate complex in northern Iraq, saying it was retaliation for an Israeli strike in Syria that killed two members of its Revolutionary Guard earlier this week. Iraq’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest the attack,…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Ebrahim Raisi, a hard-line conservative judge under U.S. sanctions, easily won Iran’s presidential election on Saturday amid record-low voter turnout. With about 90 percent of the votes counted, Raisi had received 17.8 million of the 28.6 million ballots cast. Raisi’s political rivals, former Revolutionary Guard commander Mohsen Rezaei and moderate Abdolnasser Hemmati…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The results of Iran’s presidential election show the world must act to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said at the opening of his government’s first Sunday cabinet meeting. Ebrahim Raisi, a judge responsible for tens of thousands of executions and who is under US sanctions for human-rights abuses,…
LAGOS DECEMBER 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iranian dissident journalist Ruhollah Zam, who was convicted of fomenting violence during anti-government protests in 2017, was executed on Saturday, Iran’s state television reported. Iran said on Tuesday its Supreme Court had upheld the death sentence of Zam, who was captured in 2019 after years of living in exile in France. His…
LAGOS JUNE 29TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Iran has issued an arrest warrant for U.S. President Donald Trump and 35 others over the killing of top general Qassem Soleimani and has asked Interpol for help, Tehran prosecutor Ali Alqasimehr said on Monday, according to the Fars news agency. The United States and Interpol both dismissed the idea of acting…