Elected officials, close to the family, gathered for Cécile Kohler, a 38-year-old teacher and trade unionist, arrested with her companion Jacques Paris in May 2022 while they were sightseeing in Iran. They are accused by Tehran of being spies. Nearly 80 people gathered on Monday on the forecourt of the European Community of Alsace (CEA) with, in the background, a large banner claiming "Freedom for Cécile", hung on the building of the community. "It is unacceptable that in today's world...
Open detailed viewOnly the graffiti against the civil war are colorful in this street scene in Yemen's capital. (Photo: Yahya Arhab/DPA)A few days ago, when Nadine Hashim saw the push notification from the Houthi government on her cell phone, she was wide awake. The news came at 6:46 am and was worrying: "The Yemeni woman is like Fatima the Radiant, she embodies faith, patience and commandment." Radiant Fatima is the daughter of the Prophet Mohammed - and the comparison alarms...
military cooperation Russia and Iran plan to build new kamikaze drones in a joint factory The silhouette of an Iranian Kamikaze Shahed-136 drone - a faster model is soon to be built in Russia © Aleksandr Gusev / Picture Alliance Washington warned in December of a partnership between Russia and Iran on drones. A delegation from Tehran is said to have already visited the planned site for a factory in Russia. Faster kamikaze drones are to be produced there. This...
Status: 05.02.2023 1:34 p.m Tens of thousands of prisoners are said to have been pardoned in Iran - including protesters who were detained during the recent protests. Details are unclear, and conditions apply to the pardon. Iran's religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has pardoned tens of thousands of prisoners, according to state media. The move came on the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, state television announced. The pardons therefore included amnesties and reduced detention. The state agency IRNA reported...
The right makes pacts with the pious - not only in Israel. Considering that national religious movements are fueling conflicts from Russia to Sri Lanka, they are surprisingly little noticed in the West.The recent attacks in Israel are not the only challenge for the country's new government, which sees itself as the guarantor of security like no other. They encounter an Israeli society whose internal conflicts have long since become so fundamental that they are driving tens of thousands of...
justice Iran: "Taxi Tehran" director Jafar Panahi released on bail Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi at his home in 2010. photo © -/AP/dpa The internationally renowned director Jafar Panahi has been harassed by the Iranian regime for years. Now he has been released from prison. According to a newspaper report, award-winning Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has been released on bail after around seven months in prison. The Iranian newspaper "Shargh" reported on Friday on Twitter. On Wednesday evening, filmmakers, citing...
Since July 2022, Panahi has been in Tehran's notorious Ewin prison for "anti-government propaganda". He went on a hunger strike on Wednesday. source site
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French President Emmanuel Macron and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed Thursday evening their intention to "work together" against Iran's "destabilizing" activities in the Middle East and Tehran's "support" for Russia in its offensive in Ukraine.Macron also denounced, after a dinner with his host at the Elysée, Iran's "headlong rush" in its nuclear program, and warned Tehran that a continuation on this trajectory would not remain without "consequences", according to a press release from the French presidency.Tehran accused of destabilizationIran...
Did you miss the news this early morning? We've put together a recap to help you see things more clearly.The affair could strain relations between Washington and Beijing, 48 hours before Antony Blinken's visit to China. The Pentagon is monitoring a Chinese spy balloon flying over United States territory, the Pentagon spokesman said Thursday. The aerostat evolves at "very high altitude" and does not threaten civil or military air traffic. Thursday evening, the Government of Canada mentioned "a second potential...
