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Dec 12, 2025
My First Time In Iran's Crazy Tourist Spot..
I was Shocked!! 🇮🇷
Carrie Patsalis
The largest and most controversial marathon
in Iranian history on
Kish Island!!🇮🇷
Tehran residents film
their daily lives as Iran faces devastating
drought • FRANCE 24 English
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Dec 13, 2025 - A U.S. special operations team boarded a ship in the Indian Ocean last month and seized cargo headed to Iran from China, a U.S. official said, a rare operation at sea aimed at blocking Tehran from rebuilding its military arsenal.

The seizure, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, occurred amid a strategic stalemate between Iran and the United States over its nuclear weapons program.

Iran faced off against Israel and the United States in a short war this summer that killed more than 1,000 people over 12 days of intense long-range missile and air strikes.

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The Iran The Media
WON'T Show..
I was left SPEECHLESS
in Isfahan! 🇮🇷
Narges Mohammadi

Dec 12, 2025 - Iran has arrested Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, her supporters said Friday.

A foundation in her name said she was detained in Mashhad, some 680 kilometers (420 miles) northeast of the capital, Tehran, while attending a memorial for a human rights lawyer recently found dead under unclear circumstances.

There was no immediate comment from Iran over its detention of Mohammadi, 53. It wasn’t clear if authorities would immediately return her to prison to serve the rest of her term. 

Remaking
the 
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Israel vs. Iran
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US forces

Dec 11, 2025 - An oil tanker seized by US forces in the Caribbean has been under US Treasury sanctions since 2022 for allegedly being part of a global fleet of vessels engaged in illegally smuggling Iranian oil.

A Treasury statement from the time said the network was led by Viktor Artemov, a Ukrainian citizen with links to Hezbollah and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF), according to his US sanctions list entry.

US President Donald Trump announced the seizure of the tanker while speaking to reporters at the White House on December 10.

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Secret Iran!
Few tourists ever come here..
I was shocked! 🇮🇷
Carrie Patsalis
US copied drone from iran

Dec 10, 2025 - Iran says the United States has been forced to "kneel before an Iranian drone and copy it" after Washington announced plans to deploy U.S.-made versions of Tehran’s Shahed kamikaze drones to the Middle East.

Abolfazl Shekarchi, senior spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, called the deployment a humiliating concession by a global superpower, coming after years in which Iran used low-cost drones against American forces—including the 2024 attack in Jordan—and supplied the systems to allies worldwide, including Russia for use in Ukraine and regional militias across the Middle East.

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I Didn't Know IRAN
Was Like This?
Local Life In Qazvin SURPRISED Me!
Iran water crisis

Dec 09, 2025 - Iran is carrying out cloud-seeding operations in a bid to increase rainfall as the country endures its worst water crisis in six decades.

Energy minister Abbas Aliabadi said on Tuesday the country had begun a fresh round of operations to inject crystals into clouds using planes, drones and ground-based machinery, a technique that is growing in popularity thanks to climate change. Iran has also begun developing drones tailored specifically to cloud seeding. “Operations on suitable precipitation systems have begun in the current water year,” Aliabadi said, referring to the period from early October to late September.

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جایگزین طبیعی
اوزمپیک و مونجارو

Dr. Babak Jamalian
russia-iran

Dec 08, 2025 - In a resolution issued on November 20, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called on Iran to "extend full and prompt cooperation" to the agency, which is seeking clarity on the status of Iran's enriched uranium stockpiles and safeguarded nuclear facilities. Since the 12-day war between Israel and Iran, Tehran has not granted IAEA inspectors access to the facilities that were attacked by a US strike in June.

And while this dispute continues, Moscow is expanding its nuclear cooperation with Tehran. "Our cooperation has reached an unprecedented level," Russia's ambassador to Tehran, Alexei Dedov, said in November.

My FIRST Time in IRAN!
I Was SHOCKED By
What I Discovered! 🇮🇷
Carrie Patsalis
ICE Police

Dec 07, 2025 - Fifty-five Iranian nationals have been deported from the United States and returned to Iran, the foreign ministry's consular director general announced on December 7. Mojtaba Shasti Karimi claimed the individuals had expressed willingness to return to Iran in recent months due to what he described as continued anti-immigration and discriminatory policies by the US government against foreign nationals, particularly Iranians. The deportees completed legal and administrative procedures through the Iranian interests section at the Pakistani embassy in Washington, which handles Iranian consular affairs in the absence of diplomatic relations between Tehran and Washington.

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I visited MODERN Tehran.
I COULDN'T BELIEVE
this was IRAN! 🇮🇷
3 Persian artists

There just aren’t that many Iranian women in the art world,” says Shirin Neshat, the 66-year-old artist whose work in photography and film over the past 30 years has attracted acclaim and controversy in equal measure.

Talking with her friends, art adviser Nazy Nazhand and artist Sheree Hovsepian, she adds: “I think that the connection between the three of us is that we feel kind of rare in this community. We each play a role.”

All three women were born in Iran, but moved to the US in the 1970s and ’80s. In 1979, following the Iranian Revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini established the Islamic Republic of Iran.

آمریکا و اروپا به دنبال انزوای
جمهوری اسلامی | ساعت صفر |

Shirin Neshat film photography artist

Every Iranian woman is a threat,” says Shirin Neshat, “just by being a woman.” The artist is wearing a black T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Woman, Life, Freedom”
– the slogan of the protest movement that erupted a year ago in Iran, following the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini, who allegedly flouted her country’s strict dress code.

Since 1981, veiling in public has been mandatory for every Iranian female over the age of nine, a law enforced by the “morality” police. Neshat, speaking via Zoom, turns the lens to show me the large, airy warehouse she works in. The artist, now 66, has lived in Brooklyn since the 1990s – longer than she lived in Iran.

“It’s Always About Oil”: CIA & MI6 Staged Coup in Iran 70 Years Ago, Destroying Democracy in Iran

Top 26 Iranian Films

Historically, poetry was Iran’s most prominent cultural export. Since the Iranian revolution of 1979, however, movies have carried the country’s artistic banner through the threat of censorship and the regime’s crackdown on filmmakers.

 

Iranian movies are unlike anything Hollywood produces: Many break the fourth wall in their attempts to shed light on the injustices of modern Iranian society because, in a country where you can expect to be arrested multiple times during your film’s production, movies are not simply artistic expression but rather an agent in a filmmaker’s life. Yet despite this (or rather because of it), many Iranian movies are difficult to view in the West.

Forough Farokhzad

فروغ فرخزاد به عقیده‌ خیلی‌ها به عنوان زنی تنها در آستانه‌ی فصلی سرد، سال‌ها از زمان خودش جلوتر بود.کسی که ایمان آورده بود به آغاز فصلی سرد ولی باز هم عقیده داشت بالاخره به آفتاب سلامی دوباره خواهیم کرد. فروغ را باید در شعرهایش دید وقتی برای نخستین بار یادمان آورد که “پرواز را به خاطر بسپار، پرنده مردنیست” و چه کسی است که نداند نجات دهنده در گور خفته است؟! فروغ فرخزاد زن‌ترین زن شاعر تمام‌ دوران‌هاست! او همواره به دنبال شکستن تابوها، زیر ذره‌بین انتقاد و قضاوت بی‌رحمانه‌ی مردمان نامهربان روزگار خویش بود. فروغ را بخوانید تا روح زنانه‌ی زندگی را لمس‌ کنید تا بفهمید چه ظلم‌ها که در این منطقه‌ی جغرافیایی بر تن زنانگی نرفته است. فروغ شاید بارزترین نماد انقلاب زنانه‌ای باشد که سال‌هاست در قلب تمام زنان خاورمیانه‌ی غمگین شروع شده است. باشد که این خانه دیگر سیاه نباشد و باشد که آنکس که ما را می‌بوسد دیگر در ذهن خود طناب دار ما را نبافد چرا که گیسوان ما بوی عدالت، آزادی و آزادگی می‌دهند. انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹

انقلاب زن، زندگی، آزادی و ۸ دیماه زادروز تولد فروغ فرخزاد مبارک!❤️🕊️🌹

Sanaz Toossi on her Pulitzer

May 9, 2023 - Sanaz Toossi had just cleared security at the San Francisco airport when her cellphone rang at midday Monday. It was her agent, telling the 31-year-old playwright she had won the Pulitzer Prize in drama for “English,” her first produced play.

Toossi, who had written the play as a graduate school thesis project at New York University, was in disbelief. “I asked, ‘Are you sure?’ And when she said, ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘Could you please just double-check?’”

The prize was real, and as Toossi boarded the plane home to Los Angeles, her phone began buzzing with congratulatory messages not only from around the United States, but also from Iran, where her parents were born and where the play is set.

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Golden State Ballet principal dancer Tara Ghassemieh is used to taking command of the stage. From the Sugar Plum Fairy to the Black Swan, she’s tackled her share of lead and featured roles. But recently, she stepped into a new role: pacifist-activist.
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Mahsa Amini Act
Iranian artist Parastou Forouhar visits her homeland every year to mark the day that her parents were murdered in 1998.

She opens her family home in Tehran to dissidents and catches up on the latest developments.

Now back in her studio in Germany, she reveals her latest works and tells RFE/RL how her most recent trip to Iran revealed a society going through profound change that the regime was increasingly unable to control.
emad

April 8, 2023 - It was incredibly risky to film or photograph the anti-government protests that swept Iran after the September death of Mahsa Amini. In the privacy of their homes and studios, however, some Iranian artists began to take inspiration from the scenes on the streets. Their work reflects the hope, turmoil and tragedy of the popular uprising and the violent crackdown that followed.

After months of rising repression, the demonstrations have died down in recent weeks. But the protest movement, and its slogan of “Women, life, freedom,” has changed the country after more than four decades of authoritarian clerical rule, prompting young Iranians to dream of a different future for their country — and to render it on canvas.

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Mahsa Amini
Mahsa Amini
art adviser Nazy Nazhand

Nazy Nazhand was born in Tehran in the 1980s in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. But she remembers the curfews, alarms, bombs and missiles of the Iran-Iraq war. She remembers feeling skeptical that taking cover in parts of the home she shared with her parents and her siblings would keep her safe. In 1985 her family arrived in Athens as refugees. In 1987 they immigrated to Alexandria, Virginia.

 

“It seems like somebody else’s past, to be honest,” she said, speaking in a Zoom interview from New York City, where she has lived for almost two decades. “But all the trauma comes back.”

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Iran Nation Wide Strikes
Shirin Neshat film photography artist

The exiled Iranian is one of the world's most important artists, whose works also cover women's rights in Iran. She speaks about her new film "Land of Dreams" and the situation in Iran.

Shirin Neshat is an award-winning Iranian visual artist, whose works as a photographer and filmmaker have focused on women, identity, politics and Iran.

She's been living in exile in the United States since 1979. Her latest film, "Land of Dreams," will be released in German theaters on November 3. It is a fictional story about an Iranian woman balancing her Iranian past and the American culture she was raised in.

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"Woman, Life, Freedom"
in Iran – and What It Means for the Rest of the World | Golshifteh Farahani

Firouz Naderi Iranian American scientist at NASA

In May 2023, Dr. Naderi experienced a life-altering event that resulted in paralysis from the neck down. He sustained a fall in conjunction with a cardiac episode. As a consequence, he suffered an extensive neck injury that involved damage to the spinal cord. The ensuing paralysis required surgical intervention, and some level of recovery was anticipated within a four to five month period. However, his twitter and Instagram accounts announced his unfortunate passing due to this incident on June 9, 2023.

WATCH: Women and girls are still protesting in Iran. Here’s why

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Gravitas Plus: China, Iran & Russia to create a new World Order?  - WION

How a women's-led counter-revolution is reshaping Iran • FRANCE 24 English

گزارشی درباره نایاک؛ صدای ایران یا لابی جمهوری اسلامی در آمریکا؟

،با درود

بدینوسلیه اعلام میکنیم وب سایت ایران تایمز یک رسانۀ اینترنتی مستقل با هدف پخش و بازپخش صدای آزادی خواهانۀ مردم ایران می باشد و به هیچ حزب و سازمان  سیاسی وابسته نمی باشد

،با سپاس

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