Iran’s nuclear program was launched in the 1950s with the help of the United States under the Atoms for Peace program, and in 1970, Iran ratified the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), limiting its nuclear program to peaceful use and making its nuclear program subject to inspection by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Western cooperation ceased […]
Germany is the Islamic Republic’s largest trading partner in the EU and exported €1.2 billion worth of goods to Iran from January to the end of October in 2022. Historically, Germany has had a strong relationship with Iran going back to the Qajar era when Iran’s first modern university was established. Amir Kabir preferred the […]
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Instagram subcontracts it content moderation to Telus International. Telus International is a Canadian company and its Persian-language moderators are based in Germany. Many Iranian bloggers and news outlets have complained that some of their content is being deleted or their account has been limited going all the way back to May 2022. 1500tasvir reported in […]
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) – also referred to as Sepah from its name in Persian (Sepāh-e Pāsdārān-e Enqelâb-e Eslâmī, literally ‘Army of Guardians of the Islamic Revolution’) – is a parallel military force tasked with defending the regime against internal and external threats. In practice, it is the primary tool that the Islamic Republic regime […]
COUNCIL: The highest government body that dealswith the cyberspace is a newly-establishedorganization named the High Council ofCyberspace (shoray-e aali-e fazaye majazi). In March of 2012 this new structure wasset up on the orders of Ayatollah Khameneiwith the mission of instituting high-levelpolicies on cyberspace. After the foundation of the high council ofcyberspace, all other Iranian organizationsin […]
Diplomats and NGO representatives staged a mass walkout at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHCR) in Geneva on Monday, as the Islamic Republic’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian took to the podium to address the council. The walkout was prompted by calls from activists, many using the hashtag #walkoutIRI, who demanded the symbolic action as a […]
The Guardian newspaper reports that the British Metropolitan police and MI5 security service have foiled 15 plots by the Islamic Republic regime to kidnap or killed people it considers to be “enemies of the regime”. This follows news in January that 3 men had been charged in the United States in connection with an Islamic […]