The West stepped up pressure on Iran on Monday over its crackdown on protests after the United States, European Union and United Kingdom imposed new sanctions on Tehran. The action, which reflects a deterioration in the West’s already tarnished relations with Tehran in recent months, is the latest response to Iran’s deadly crackdown on unrest […]
The BNP has demanded that the government immediately roll back the hike in retail electricity prices, saying the ‘unjust’ decision is against the public interest. General secretary Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said in a statement on Friday, “The suffering of the people who are paying the price for the unbridled corruption perpetrated by the unelected […]
the central bank will support the currency Since the protests began more than three months ago, Iran’s currency has lost a quarter of its value and plunged to a record low in the free-floating informal market as desperate Iranians tried to save their savings from inflation. In an effort to buy the US dollar and […]