The site of Islamic State’s last stand is now the most hotly contested pocket of the Middle EastFrom a ridge known locally as Baghouz Mountain, the most contested corner of the Middle East resembles an oasis: it’s a splash of green on a desert horizon …
Former Iranian president Abolhassan Bani-Sadr dies aged 88
First president after 1979 Islamic revolution clashed with clerics and fled to exile in France a year laterAbolhassan Bani-Sadr, who became Iran’s first president after the 1979 Islamic revolution before fleeing into exile in France, has died aged 88.H…
Israel accuses Iran of attack attempt against Israelis in Cyprus
Nicosia says an armed individual was arrested after crossing from Turkish-controlled northIsrael has accused Iran of orchestrating an attempted attack against Israelis in Cyprus after police on the Mediterranean island said an armed individual had been…
Building friendships based on principles from arranged marriage
A woman had a hard time making friends — until she built a group based on arranged marriage. “What makes it work are key elements borrowed from arranged marriages: commit first, lean on structure, and allow for fun and intimacy to emerge and sustain t…
メッセージを暗号化するアプリは、検閲が強化されるイランの人々にとっての命綱になるか
政府によるインターネットのアクセス制限や監視、検閲が強化されているイラン。人々が自由な発言やコミュニケーションを確保できるように、メッセージをランダムな言葉の連なりに変換できる暗号化アプリが登場した。ネットの遮断も想定してテキストの手入力でも利用できるこのアプリは、イランの人々にとっての命綱になれるのか。
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China roundup: Meng Wanzhou’s release and Huawei’s future
Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. On Friday, Huawei’s chief financial executive Meng Wanzhou was released from house arrest in Vancouver after reaching a breakthrough deal with the U.S. Justice Department. Chinese […]
‘Iran was our Hogwarts’: my childhood between Tehran and Essex
Growing up in Essex, my summers in Iran felt like magical interludes from reality – but it was a spell that always had to be brokenWhen I was 12, a bespectacled boy with a shock of thick hair and his forearm in plaster gave me the first Harry Potter bo…
Iran’s president denounces US sanctions as ‘crimes against humanity’
Ultra-conservative Ebrahim Raisi uses debut on international stage to deliver sustained attack on Washington Iran’s new ultra-conservative president has used his debut on the international stage to deliver a sustained assault on US, denouncing sanction…
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The Scientist and the A.I.-Assisted, Remote-Control Killing Machine [ungated] – “Israeli agents had wanted to kill Iran’s top nuclear scientist for years. Then they came up with a way to do it with no operatives present.”[1,2] [T]here really was a kill…
Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe campaign urges sanctions against 10 Iranians
Campaign to mark British-Iranian’s 2,000th day in detention with demand to Foreign OfficeThe campaign to free Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian dual national, is to mark her 2,000th day in detention in Iran this week by demanding the Briti…