Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty The press agency for Iran’s hard-line conservative volunteer militia, the Basij, has quoted a senior official as saying that 50 Iranian student volunteers have been killed while fighting in Syria. Basij Press quoted Daud Gudrazi — the head of the Student Basij Organization, a branch of […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 7, 2016 A Saudi court on Dec. 6 sentenced 15 Shi’ites to death for spying for Iran, Saudi state media reported. The Specialized Criminal Court in Riyadh sentenced 15 other defendants to prison terms ranging from six months to 25 years, and acquitted two others, according to the Arabic-language al-Riyadh newspaper. […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 6, 2016 Roller coasters are for the offspring of the “Great Satan”. Iran’s Islamic Republic prefers its kids instead to be “revolutionaries” who, as early as 8-years-old, are aware of the nation’s enemies and how to fight them. Iran has opened a theme park where children aged 8 to 13 put […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 6, 2016 A dozen people who work in Iran’s fashion industry have been handed prison sentences for “spreading prostitution” and a “Western-style culture of nudity” via their posting of what the judiciary considers “obscene” images online. The eight women and four men were given sentences of between 5 months and 6 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 6, 2016 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now targeting American Christians in retaliation for the U.S.’s refusal to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen for his alleged role in the July coup attempt, a report said. Erdogan’s post-coup crackdown has resulted in the arrest of tens of thousands of people and the […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2016 For the second time in a month, a Russian fighter jet crashed into the Mediterranean after attempting to land on the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier. “After carrying out its military assignment in Syrian airspace, a Su-33 fighter rolled beyond the deck of the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier during landing […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2016 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will work with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on solutions to the Iran nuclear deal which the Israeli leader insists paves Iran’s path to nuclear weapons. “The problem of how to deal with this deal is something I will discuss with president Trump when he […]
by WorldTribune Staff, December 2, 2016 Iraq’s effort to liberate Mosul is being significantly slowed by Islamic State of Iraq and Levant’s (ISIL’s) use of remotely-guided car bombs. The terror group is sending out vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) “at the astounding rate of 14 per day” around Mosul, according to the Washington Post. “The group […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 Israel expects to have total air dominance in the Middle East for the next four decades with the arrival on Dec. 12 of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. “The future is here,” Israeli Air Force (IAF) Chief of Staff Brig.-Gen. Tal Kalman said, adding that “the F-35 will allow […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 30, 2016 While the Islamic Republic’s regime reaps a windfall of cash from the lifting of sanctions, it has only increased repression of its people, dissidents say. “Nothing changed in Iran’s people’s life” since the nuclear deal was signed, says Shabnam Madadzadeh, 29, a student organizer at Teheran’s Tarbiat Moalem University […]
