A Boeing 737-800 operated by Ukraine International Airlines crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport in Iran. Ukraine International Airlines is the 28-year old flag carrier of Ukraine. The airline serves numerous Middle Eastern destinations from Kyiv with a fleet consisting mostly of Boeing aircraft. Visit Business […]
The drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil plants didn’t just halve the country’s production and send the price of oil rocketing. They also harmed the country’s spare production capacity, which can produce some 2 million barrels a day and used during emergencies. Drones hit two refineries owned by state-owned giant […]
Jolie King and Mark Firkin, two Australian travel bloggers, have been detained in Iran and are widely reported to be in Tehran’s Evin Prison. The high-security facility is known for holding foreign prisoners, as well as political dissidents and intellectuals. Former detainees describe being marched around in blindfolds, forced to […]
About a year before President Donald Trump pulled the US from the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran, the CIA circulated a classified report that largely predicted the crisis that would ensue from such a decision. According to The New York Times Magazine, the report warned that “radical elements of the […]
The US could be near the brink of war with Iran again after months of rising tensions. The Pentagon on Thursday announced the US had killed a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani. Iran’s top diplomat described Soleimani’s death as an act of “international terrorism” by the US. A war with […]
Tensions between the US and Iran have reached historic heights in recent months, prompting fears among lawmakers in Washington of a new war in the Middle East. The US and Iran are locked in a tit-for-tat stalemate as they both seek to gain leverage over the other in a broader […]
Moscow, Tehran, and Damascus have repeatedly accused the US of training Islamic State fighters at the al-Tanf garrison in Syria, but all they have been able to do is complain about it. In reality, the base disrupts the flow of weapons from Iraq to Syria. It also has served as […]
The Iranian rial fell below 100,000 against the US dollar for the first time. US sanctions on Iran go into effect August 6. Follow the rial in real time here. Iran’s currency, the rial, sank to an all-time low over the weekend, falling below 100,000 rials to the dollar, ahead […]
Thousands of protesters gathered in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Monday to rally against rising prices and the Iranian currency’s sinking value because of President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the 2015 nuclear deal. It was the biggest protest since 2012, when internationally imposed sanctions began to devastate the country’s economy. Iranians […]
Iran has banned teaching English in primary school classrooms as the country tries to quell Western influence. The Iranian government has blamed the West for provoking recent mass protests against the country’s regime, which have at least left 21 dead. Iran claims the protests have ended, however social media still […]
