Iraq reverses border fees
Earlier this month, Baghdad more than quintupled the fee charged Iranian truckers crossing into Iraq. But Iran now says it ...
Month: May 2015
The Oil Patch
DOLDRUMS — The OPEC daily price has now spent the whole of May in the low $60-range. It is very ...
India hopes Chabahar running by Dec. 2016
HIGHWAY TO NOWHERE — India built the Zaranj-Delaram road six years ago and it is still awaiting the completion of ...
Ex-husband charged in wife’s murder
HAMID GHASSEMI. . . plotted death The badly-decomposed body of an Iranian-American woman has been found in a Louisiana swamp ...
Ghomeshi loses two of seven sex charges
EYES LOWERED — Jian Ghomeshi (left) leaves court in Toronto with his defense attorney, Marie Henein. Canadian media star Jian ...
Crackdown reported on Ahvazi Arabs
Intelligence and security forces have rounded up scores of Ahvazi Arabs in what appears to be an escalating crackdown in ...
Age hasn’t slowed down this runner
SWIFT — Farrokh Safavi may be in his 70s, but he runs for his university’s team. Farrokh Safavi is now ...
Lying Obama
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson (photo) of Wisconsin seems to put more trust in Iran than most Iranians. Last week, he ...