Iran shows off underground missile depot operated by Revolutionary Guards

Iran shows off new ‘missile city’ with rows of ballistic rockets stashed in an underground depot in chilling challenge to the West Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami visited the new missile base Footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed at the facility  He bragged that it is only a ‘small section’ of … Read more

Iran shows off ‘missile city’ with rows of ballistic rockets in an underground depot

Iran shows off new ‘missile city’ with rows of ballistic rockets stashed in an underground depot in chilling challenge to the West Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami visited the new missile base Footage broadcast by state TV showed rows of missiles stashed at the facility  He bragged that it is only a ‘small section’ of … Read more

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court

British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is facing an anxious wait to learn whether she can leave Iran after her six-year prison ordeal following her trail today.  The 43-year-old mother was charged with ‘propaganda against the system’ and will have to wait for about a week before the judge decides whether she will be acquitted or … Read more

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court

Nazanin husband’s anger as British embassy refuses to accompany her to Iranian court while world waits to learn if her six-year prison ordeal is over Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe jailed for five years in 2016 on trumped-up spying charges  Husband Richard Ratcliffe hoped British embassy would take wife to court   But British embassy in Tehran declined to … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of her ‘traumatising’ five years of hell in Iranian jail

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told of her five years of ‘traumatising’ torture in Iran for the first time. In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family. She was also chained and forced to wear a blindfold in prison where she suffered sensory … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe tells of her ‘traumatising’ five years of hell in Iranian jail

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has told of her five years of ‘traumatising’ torture in Iran for the first time. In a video interview with independent investigators, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, revealed she was threatened with execution and the torture of her family. She was also chained and forced to wear a blindfold in prison where she suffered sensory … Read more

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe

Boris Johnson demands ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe during phone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani as PM says her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’ PM Boris Johnson spoke to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani this afternoon  Mr Johnson demanded the ‘immediate release’ of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe The PM said her ‘continued confinement remains completely unacceptable’  By … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentence scheduled to end after five years

Source: PA April 3 2016: The mother-of-one is detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed her daughter Gabriella to her parents. July 12 2016: Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, delivers letters to Downing Street for outgoing prime minister David Cameron and his replacement Theresa … Read more

Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe sentence scheduled to end after five years

Source: PA April 3 2016: The mother-of-one is detained by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard at Imam Khomeini airport after a holiday visit to Iran where she showed her daughter Gabriella to her parents. July 12 2016: Richard Ratcliffe, her husband, delivers letters to Downing Street for outgoing prime minister David Cameron and his replacement Theresa … Read more

Passenger plane hijacking is disrupted and stopped during flight over Iran 

Passenger plane hijacking is disrupted and stopped during flight over Iran The purported hijacking targeted an Iran Air Fokker 100 regional commercial jet It was heading from southwestern city of Ahvaz to northwestern city of Mashhad  Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard announced the incident on Friday Officals said authorities disrupted the attempt, but did not identify the hijacker  … Read more