America flew balloons in its airspace: China
“Our assessment – and we are going to learn more as we pick up the debris – was that it was unlikely to provide significant additive value over and above other (Chinese) Intel capability, such as low-Earth orbit satellite in,” said the senior US defense official. A Reuters photographer who witnessed the shootout said a […]
May 2019 – Twitter suspends the account of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei over a tweet saying that Khomeini’s fatwa against Rushdie was “concrete and irrevocable”. March 2022 – Zaghari-Ratcliffe and another British-Iranian dual citizen, Anousheh Ashuri, return to the UK from Iran. August 2022 – Salman Rushdie is stabbed on stage at a […]
Iranian state media published a video on Thursday in which Alireza Akbari, a British-Iranian citizen sentenced to death for espionage, said he played a role in the 2020 assassination of the country’s top nuclear scientist. In a separate audio recording broadcast by BBC Farsi on Wednesday, Akbari said he was tortured in custody for months […]
The French foreign minister said in November that a total of seven French nationals were being held in Iran, another sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries. The Islamic Republic has accused foreign opponents of inciting a wave of unrest that erupted three months ago in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a […]