Huge funeral for Shiraz terror victims 

SHIRAZ - Tens of thousands of people attended a funeral procession held on Saturday morning for the victims of a terrorist attack on the holy shrine of Shah-e Cheragh in the south-central city of Shiraz.

UK police get away with breaking the law

TEHRAN- The recently long-awaited report on vast misconduct by British police sheds light on how the country’s officers are breaking the law themselves and getting away with it. These are the same British police forces who are supposedly protecting citizens from crime and supposedly enforcing the law themselves.

Chaos in UK as PM Truss quits 

TEHRAN- If the United Kingdom has not seen the worst economic crisis in several decades, it now has a political disaster after Liz Truss resigned as Prime Minister just 45 days after taking over from Boris Johnson. It is astonishing the country will have a third PM in a matter of a few months. 

The NATO-Russia nuclear exchange threat

TEHRAN- The war of words is escalating between Russia and NATO over the use of nuclear weapons over the Ukraine conflict. Such war of words comes as nuclear weapons threaten the entire planet Earth.

Scottish independence gains momentum

Young Scots “have been robbed of opportunity”

TEHRAN- The Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has expressed strong confidence of a second referendum on Scottish independence that she says could take place in October next year. The Scottish National Party leader says “Scotland – over generations – has paid a price for not being independent.”

Massive protests greet UK Tory conference

TEHRAN- The UK ruling Conservative Party’s annual conference in the city of Birmingham has been met with huge protests with MPs requiring police protection to escort them into the conference hall as public anger boils over the rising cost of living crisis and falling living standards.

UK wages war against the poor

TEHRAN- The UK government has introduced huge tax cuts for the super-wealthy, paved the way for struggling families to fall deeper into poverty.   

Queen's funeral helped tip UK into recession 

TEHRAN- The Bank of England raised interest rates after saying the country was already in recession partly because of the extra public holiday for the queen's funeral. 

UK protests after police kill unarmed black man 

TEHRAN- Protests have been taking place across the United Kingdom after yet another unarmed black man was shot and killed by police officers.

Pricey British royal change during financial crisis  

TEHRAN- The transition to a new king following Queen Elizabeth’s death in the UK is gearing up to be an expensive affair. Some reports have even put the expenses of the change at a massive £6 billion. In any case it comes during one of the worst economic crises facing Britons in modern history. 

By Saeed Azimi

Queen's dark legacy still lives on

TEHRAN— Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch of the Great Britain, died on Thursday. Since then, British media is trying to whitewash and rebrand her colonialist efforts in a complex psycho-op consisting of various stages.

How Charles will rule after Queen Elizabeth’s death

TEHRAN- Queen Elizabeth’s death follows a record 70-year reign that reflects to a large degree Britain's declining global influence, from an empire that once dominated large swathes of the world to what is now a middle-ranking economy. 

A failed UK comeback

TEHRAN— Liz Truss, the UK's third female prime minister, made a key decision when she nominated James Cleverly as Foreign Secretary. Why is this decision significant to the West Asian region?

European energy bills soar with UK the latest 

The European continent is currently the flashpoint when it comes to unprecedented demand and costs for energy despite winter being still a few months away. 

Strike action paralyzes UK

More and more workers from different sectors in the United Kingdom are taking industrial action as public anger mounts at low wages in the face of a rising cost of living crisis gripping the country. 

UK cost of living crisis worsens

The rate of inflation in the United Kingdom has reached a new 40-year high, putting further financial strain on household budgets as the cost of living crisis rises with the strongest inflation since 1982.

Blame game starts early on Doha talks

TEHRAN— In a joint effort to portray the first round of indirect talks between Iran and the United States in Doha as “a failure,” the Western media has launched a heavy blame game to show Iran and the negotiating team as a culprit. But what is the truth?

Study sheds light on Mosque attacks in UK

New Research by two British Muslim organizations has revealed almost half of Mosques or Islamic institutions in the United Kingdom have experienced religiously motivated attacks over “the last three years”, in another sign of the rising levels of Islamophobia in the country.