For many years, corruption, fraud, nepotism, and squandering national resources in irresponsible projects pushed Iran's economy to the brink of collapse. Iranian officials attempt to tie the current financial troubles to recent U.S. sanctions.
On November 4, 1979, the United States embassy in Tehran was taken over by a group that described themselves as “student followers of the line of the Imam”. They took 52 US embassy employees and diplomats hostage for 444 days.
In reviewing how the financial empire of Ali Khamenei, the Iranian regime’s supreme leader, was formed, we should look at Iran's greatest political economy in 2005 as a turning point.
The International Judo Federation's Disciplinary Committee on Tuesday, October 22, announced that Iran's Government has been banned from all international judo competitions.
On Wednesday 30th October, a state-run publication in Iran called for a takeover of the American Embassy in Iraq. The Keyhan daily is widely considered the mouthpiece of the Iranian government and it called on the Hashd al Shaabi militia to take over the United States Embassy in Baghdad.
The European Union needs a new policy on the Iranian Regime, according to former European lawmaker Struan Stevenson at a conference in the Strasbourg branch of the European Parliament.
