Tabriz,South Azerbaijan,Feb 14  Bahrain has ordered 17,000 English school textbooks reprinted for labeling the body of water surrounding the Arab island kingdom as the “Persian Gulf”, a political taboo, state news agency BNA reported on Monday.  Bahrain and the other U.S.-allied Gulf Arab states resent the term, which is commonly …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 15 The Taliban briefly overrun a district in western Afghanistan’s Farah Province bordering Iran, just days after the insurgents killed several Afghan security forces in another district in the province. With Farah teetering on the brink of collapse, Afghan officials blame the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) for …

What’s Driving Iran’s Protests?  –By :HASSAN HAKIMIAN Iran’s protests, fueled by the rising cost of living and widening economic and social disparities, have quickly morphed into a repudiation of the regime itself. While much of the anger has been directed at the conservative clerical establishment, reformists have as much at …