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NPR
April 1, 2018
As Christians all over the world celebrate Easter weekend, dozens of fellow faithful are growing weary — waiting for the virtual gates of America's refugee services to reopen. More than 100 Iranian Christians and members of other religions have been stranded in Austria for over a year, after the U.S.Ãâà...
RadioFarda
March 31, 2018
The Iranian year that ended on March 20 was marked by the escalation of public dissent, unprecedented street protests in many cities, and bolder demands from labor unions. The unrest took new forms and was more radical than in years past. Iranians openly undermined social norms and courageouslyÃâà...
Hurriyet Daily News
March 31, 2018
But here they are, currently in Belgrade, after arriving without visas last August, waiting to continue on to Germany, where they plan to build a new and better life in the future. The family of four comes from the town of Ahvaz in the province of Khuzestan in Iran's south west, where the majority of theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 30, 2018
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's war of words against Iran seems to have had a unifying effect among usually divided Iranians. The 32-year-old prince adopted a particularly tough tone against Tehran during his March 19 interview with CBS' "60 Minutes," sparking Iranian anger both towardÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
March 29, 2018
Iranian people have begun the new year with three messages from Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the US President Donald Trump. ... Now, the Iranian society and oppressed people of Iran have a friend in White House, whose believe converge with their legitimate demands for change.
HSToday
March 25, 2018
FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich speaks at a March 23, 2018 press conference announcing hacking-related charges against nine Iranians as Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein (right) and FBI New York Assistant Director in Charge William F. Sweeney, Jr. look on. Photo credit: FBIÃâà...
Yahoo News
March 24, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department on Friday charged nine Iranian citizens with hacking hundreds of companies and academic institutions to steal more than $3.4 billion in trade secrets and other data on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The individuals charged did the hacking since 2013 andÃâà...
The Straits Times
March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - The United States on Friday (March 23) charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and an Iranian company for attempting to hack into hundreds of universities worldwide, dozens of firms and parts of the US government, including its main energy regulator, on behalf of Teheran'sÃâà...
SC Magazine UK
March 24, 2018
The US announcement followed a Manhattan court's unsealing of a seven-count indictment alleging that the Iranians engaged in a coordinated campaign to steal proprietary research, data and intellectual property from a wide range of targets, including 144 US universities, 176 universities across 21Ãâà...
Yahoo News
March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Friday charged and sanctioned nine Iranians and an Iranian company for attempting to hack into hundreds of universities worldwide, dozens of firms and parts of the U.S. government, including its main energy regulator, on behalf of Tehran's government.
New York Times
March 24, 2018
WASHINGTON — Nine Iranians stole secrets from American government agencies, universities and companies in a yearslong cyberattack, federal law enforcement officials said on Friday, calling out Tehran amid fears that the Trump administration will dismantle the Iran nuclear deal. The suspects workedÃâà...
Fortune
March 23, 2018
U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman speaks at a press conference at the Department of Justice March 23, 2018 in Washington, DC. Deputy Attorney Genral Rod Rosenstein and other law enforcement officials announced a major cyber law enforcement action against nineÃâà...
10News
March 23, 2018
The Trump administration says 10 Iranian nationals and one Iranian entity hacked into hundreds of U.S. and international universities and a media company. The Treasury Department announced Friday it's imposing sanctions on the accused individuals and the Iran-based Mabna Institute. The department'sÃâà...
WTVC
March 23, 2018
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced criminal charges and sanctions Friday against Iranians accused in a government-sponsored hacking scheme to pilfer sensitive information from hundreds of universities, private companies and American government agencies. The nine defendants, accused ofÃâà...
MarketWatch
March 23, 2018
Federal prosecutors unsealed criminal charges Friday accusing nine Iranians of orchestrating years of cyberattacks on behalf of the Iranian government to steal data from hundreds of universities and businesses in the U.S. and abroad, in one of the largest state-sponsored hacking cases ever charged byÃâà...
CNBC
March 23, 2018
Nine Iranians were charged Friday by the Justice Department in a wide-ranging scheme to hack and steal electronic data from universities, private corporations and U.S. government entities to benefit the government of Iran. The Iranians were indicted on seven counts accusing them of identity theft andÃâà...
New York Times
March 21, 2018
“I take the first true measure of my body and decide that it's shame, not sin, that's unholy.” It's 1955 Iran and Forugh Farrokhzad, a soon-to-be divorced mother, awakens to sex and art in Jasmin Darznik's novel, “Song of a Captive Bird.” A few pages later, having begun an affair with a progressive TehraniÃâà...
Insidethegames.biz (blog)
March 9, 2018
Weightlifter's seven-day journey from hell has happy ending as Iranians take three gold medals. AddThis Sharing Buttons. Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Share to Print Share to Email Share to More. By Brian Oliver in Ahvaz in Iran; Friday, 9 March 2018Ãâà...
APA
March 9, 2018
Two Iranian citizens, Mehran Yusif Nijat (born 1985) and Jamzemi Ismayil (born 1984) were detained for violating Azerbaijan's marine borders, the State Border Service told APA. The SBS Coastal Guard received information about an unidentified sailing object entering Azerbaijani waters around 1:25 onÃâà...
Al-Monitor
March 9, 2018
The US Treasury Department is reportedly finally moving on issuing the necessary licenses for airplane sales to Iran after a long period of inactivity. PASCAL PAVANI/AFP/Getty Images. A Bombardier CRJ 1000 from French low-cost airline Hop! takes off from Toulouse-Blagnac Airport, Oct. 19, 2017.
CBC.ca
March 9, 2018
Iranians targeted, lawyer says. The couple, who came to Quebec under the Skilled Workers Program, applied for permanent residency status almost two years ago. Despite the average wait time for applicants in their category being around 15 months, they still haven't received an answer. And they're notÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
March 8, 2018
Iranian women wearing the hijab, or headscarf, walk down a street in Tehran on Feb. 7. (Atta Kenare / AFP/Getty Images). Iranian police on Thursday arrested several people outside the Labor Ministry building in Tehran, blocking a rally that activists had organized to mark International Women's Day.
The Cipher Brief
March 7, 2018
And the crowds were comprised of lower-income and lower-class Iranians that have traditionally been the bedrock of regime support. ... The Iranian people have also expressed their disgust with the regime's inadequate handling of environmental problems and pollution, inadequate responses to naturalÃâà...
Iran News Update
March 6, 2018
INU - The dire economic conditions in Iran has made the struggle to provide for their families difficult for many ordinary Iranians. Both prices and unemployment continue to rise. ... Still, the Iranian people clearly showed their opposition to these endeavors during their protest. Slogans that disavowed Iran'sÃâà...
Gulf Times
March 6, 2018
Iranians visit an exhibition of 50 artworks from French museum the Louvre, at the National Museum in central Tehran. Text Size: A A A. AFP /Tehran. Iranians gave a warm welcome to a new exhibition by France's Louvre yesterday — the first major show by a foreign museum in the country. “It was great.
New York Times
March 1, 2018
The Iranians, mainly members of their nation's Christian minorities, were bound for a new life in America after what should have been a brief sojourn in Austria for visa processing. But more than a year later, some 100 of them remain stranded in Vienna, their savings drained, their lives in limbo and theÃâà...
Al-Monitor
February 19, 2018
The Iranian people are proud of their long history and view themselves as one of the few great civilizations. During his September 2017 address to the UN General Assembly, Trump underscored these “proud roots as a center of civilization.” Yet a month later, he described Iranians as a “terrorist nation.”.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Being an immigrant from Iran has never been a cakewalk. From the moment I landed in the United States as a 6-year-old in the late 1970s, I had to navigate a world where my “people” were the bad guys and I had to represent them on the playground. While Chinese-Americans had Bruce Lee andÃâà...
E-Commerce Times
December 31, 1999
The Treasury Department sanctioned the Mabna Institute and 10 Iranians -- the nine defendants named in this case and Behzad Mesri, who previously was indicted in ... The U.S. "will not be able to use such ploys to stop or prevent Iranian people's scientific progress," said spokesperson Bahram Qassemi.
Al-Monitor
December 31, 1999
Following Khamenei's Nowruz speech on March 21, Iranians have had mixed reactions to his urging citizens to buy domestically made products. President Hassan Rouhani quickly pledged support and promised that his administration will do everything in its capacity to implement the guidelines.
