The world’s first guide to hotels in Iran is out next month. And anyone who’s dubious about its contents, that it can’t surely showcase anything enticing, is in for a surprise. Persian Nights – Amazing Boutique Hotels & Guesthouses in Iran, published by teNeues (www.teneues.com), is authored by Thomas Wegmann, who travelled from the top to … Read more
Russia and China are using cyber attacks to ‘steal, sabotage and ransack’ the West, Dominic Raab warns as he reveals EIGHTY universities, colleges and schools were targeted by ransomware in March Raab speaking at National Cyber Security Centre’s CYBERUK conference today Says authoritarian regimes are using technology to attack international system Reveals 80 universities/schools hit … Read more
The US Coast Guard fired 30 warning shots after 13 Iranian armed speedboats came within yards of seven American military vessels in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said some of the Iranian fast boats came as close as 150 yards of six U.S. military vessels escorting the guided-missile submarine Georgia. … Read more
Refugee nurses are being recruited into the NHS on a fast-track scheme to help in the UK’s fight against coronavirus. In the first scheme of its kind, Liverpool John Moores University are offering asylum seekers a four-week course to bring them on to the frontline of hospitals across the country. At the moment nurses who … Read more
Iranian state TV claims Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe will be freed after the UK ‘paid £400million military debt’ – but the British mother’s family say they have heard nothing Iranian State TV quoted anonymous official claiming UK had agreed to pay debt Channel reported deals had been reached to release prisoners with Western ties However, UK officials … Read more
Veteran Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow will quit at the end of this year after 32 years at the helm of the programme, the broadcaster announced today. The 73-year-old journalist, who has spent 45 years at ITN, will leave the programme as its longest-serving presenter ever – but will continue to work with Channel … Read more
A growing list of Republicans – including several potential 2024 presidential candidates – is trashing Biden climate envoy John Kerry following a new claim by a top Iranian diplomat in a leaked recording, and one GOP Senator wants Kerry’s resignation. Kerry on Monday emphatically denied telling Iran’s foreign minister Javad Zarif information about Israeli attacks … Read more
Boris Johnson and Dominic Raab slam Iran for imposing ‘totally inhumane and wholly unjustified’ extra year in prison for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as the PM says he is ‘working very hard’ to secure her release Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been given an additional one year jail term in Iran Dominic Raab said the sentence was ‘totally inhumane … Read more
Outrage as Iran is selected to sit on UN women’s rights panel despite laws banning female sports, making the hijab compulsory and forcing married women to get their husband’s permission to leave the country Iran has been elected to sit on UN’s committee on women’s rights for four years Masih Alinejad, a US-based activist said … Read more
Aussie academic Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert’s ex-husband has been seen out and about with his new lover for the first since having an affair while she was imprisoned in a hellhole Iranian jail as she declared she no longer cares about him. Dr Moore-Gilbert, an Islamic studies scholar, was freed last November in a prisoner … Read more