On Friday, SpaceX founder, Elon Musk, turned on Starlink in Iran. Signaling in a tweet to Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he will make the satellite internet system available in Iran. Starlink satellites are already passing over Iran where they appear as a string of lights flying in tandem. This is good news for…
US President mocks Iranian supreme leader, writes in support of the ‘noble people of Iran,’ after Khamenei attacks America and Europe in speech. US President Donald Trump at a ceremony in the White House, January 17, 2020, in Washington. (AP/Steve Helber) US President Donald Trump on Friday mocked and warned Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after the…
A demonstrator holds a picture of Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a protest in Tehran, Iran, January 3, 2020 Photo by Nazanin Tabatabaee/West Asia News Agency/Reuters Last week, international politics was consumed with the potential for all-out war between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran, or…
Videos emerged online Monday that purportedly show Iranian police and security forces firing live ammunition to disperse demonstrators protesting against the Islamic Republic after the country mistakenly downed a Ukrainian airline plane shortly after takeoff from Tehran. There was no immediate report in Iranian state-run media on the incident near Azadi, or Freedom, Square in Tehran, but, if true,…
Greetings from Tyler, Whoever heard of THIRTY feet of snow? That’s what they’re dealing with in Iceland, where they’ve never seen the like. Snow was supposed to have been a thing of the past, something the youthful generation would only hear about in stories and photos. But like all man-made global warming predictions, it’s failed…
U.N. human rights chief says video footage shows Iranian security forces “shooting to kill.” WASHINGTON — The U.S.’s special representative for Iran Brian Hook has said that more than 1,000 Iranian citizens may have been killed in recent protests. On Thursday, Hook told reporters that the U.S. assessment, which was higher than previous reports by…
Iranian security forces gunned down “rioters” in multiple cities during recent protests over an increase in government-set gasoline prices, the country’s state television admitted Tuesday, as unease continues to grip the Islamic Republic. The report – which the Associated Press said is the first time authorities have offered any sort of accounting for the violence used…