Iranian police close 800 stores for selling ‘inappropriate’ clothing

Iranian police close 800 stores for selling ‘inappropriate’ clothing

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian media reported that police have shut down more than 800 clothing stores across the country for selling “unconventional and inappropriate” attire — believed to mean Western-style outfits and women’s clothing that doesn’t meet strict Islamic requirements. The reports on September 5 said the raids took […]

Syria: What Obama hath wrought is about to become his successor’s nightmare

Syria: What Obama hath wrought is about to become his successor’s nightmare

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders It would be hard to exaggerate the mess in the Middle East that President Barack Obama is leaving his successor. While the five-year Syrian civil war continues unabated, pitting a number of different armed groups against each other with their foreign sponsors, Washington is caught in its own […]

Both Trump and Peña Nieto get the core value of the U.S.-Mexico political equation

Both Trump and Peña Nieto get the core value of the U.S.-Mexico political equation

Special to WorldTribune.com By Sol W. Sanders President Enrique Peña Nieto’s invitation to the two U.S. candidates for president is one more instance of the growing role of Mexico in domestic American politics. There was a time, now long ago politically, when Mexican politicians preferred to ignore what they considered an embarrassment of the Mexican […]

Putin says Iran no problem, Russia and OPEC should freeze oil output

Putin says Iran no problem, Russia and OPEC should freeze oil output

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Russian President Vladimir Putin said he’d like to see Russia and the OPEC cartel reach a deal to bolster oil prices by freezing production, and he expects a dispute over Iran’s involvement can be resolved. “From the viewpoint of economic sense and logic, then it would […]

A loyal son’s lonely crusade

A loyal son’s lonely crusade

Special to WorldTribune.com By Donald Kirk Time slowly erases the traces of those held in North Korea. The longer they’re there, the easier it is to forget them. Their families, reluctant to invest more psychic energy on those for whom they know the North Koreans have no mercy, give up the quest. As individuals move […]

Iranian-American arrested on national security charges may have posted rights criticism online

Iranian-American arrested on national security charges may have posted rights criticism online

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iran says it arrested an Iranian-American dual citizen in late July on charges of plotting against national security and collaborating with hostile governments. Mizan Online, the judiciary news agency, said on August 31 that the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps arrested the person in the province of […]

German intel official cites ‘hundreds of reports’ of ‘hit squads’, sleeper cells

German intel official cites ‘hundreds of reports’ of ‘hit squads’, sleeper cells

Special to WorldTribune.com by Dr. Jack Caravelli, Geostrategy-Direct Last year’s mass influx of refugees from Syria and Iraq triggered a series of security, social and political troubles throughout Europe, reaching as far as Sweden. But while the refugee numbers have been reduced, major nations such as Germany and Italy face new problems. In Germany, Chancellor […]

Retired Iranian general killed during fight with Sunni militants in Aleppo

Retired Iranian general killed during fight with Sunni militants in Aleppo

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian state media reports say a retired Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) general has been killed while battling against Islamic militants in northern Syria. The Fars news agency, which is closely affiliated with the IRGC, reported on Aug. 31 that Gen. Ahmad Gholami was killed on […]

Cancer-stricken University of Texas grad student granted ‘conditional’ release from notorious Iran prison

Cancer-stricken University of Texas grad student granted ‘conditional’ release from notorious Iran prison

Special to WorldTribune.com Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Iranian state media have reported that a jailed and ailing Iranian citizen who had been a graduate student in Texas has been released after more than five years in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison. The government-owned IRAN daily newspaper quoted the lawyer for Omid Kokabee as saying […]

Obama administration’s transgender agenda hits home in Fairfax County, Virginia

Obama administration’s transgender agenda hits home in Fairfax County, Virginia

Special to WorldTribune.com By Tim Hannigan, Fairfax Free Citizen Some parents within Fairfax County are beginning to wake up to the realization that the Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) are planning to impose radical gender identity practices and supporting “Family Life Education” curriculum changes within the 185K+ school system. Many of these now-aware parents don’t […]