The ongoing anti-government protest in Iran in defiance of a warning by the authorities of a tough crackdown, extending for a fourth day one of the most audacious challenges to the power of clerics since pro-reform unrest in 2009. https://twitter.com/JacobAWohl/status/947577817192996865 In his first public reaction to the protests, President Hassan Rouhani appealed for calm, however confirming…
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Mogherini holds meetings in Teheran
The EU top diplomat Federica Mogherini, visited Tehran, Iran, to attend the formal inauguration ceremony of President Hassan Rouhani. Mogherini held bilateral meetings with President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, the Foreign Policy Advisor of the Supreme Leader, Ali-Akbar Velayati, and attended a roundtable discussion at the Council for Foreign Policy headed by former…
EU expresses condolences to Iran
At least 12 people have been killed and dozens more injured in Tehran as a result of double attack of a gunmen and suicide bombers targeted the Iranian parliament and the mausoleum of the founder of the Islamic Republic. At the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (pictured) the founder of the Islamic Republic after deposing…
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