Tag: iranian regime

Iranian-Backed Hackers Targeted Boston Children’s Hospital, FBI Chief Says

BOSTON—Hackers sponsored by the Iranian regime last year attempted a “despicable” cyber attack against Boston Children’s Hospital that threatened to disrupt services to patients, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Wednesday. Wray, in a speech delivered at a conference hosted by Boston College, detailed the incident as he warned about the rising threat cyber attacks…


British-Iranian Citizen Says She Had to Sign ‘False Confession’ Before Being Freed

British-Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who returned to the UK in March after spending six years in detention in Iran, has revealed she was forced to sign a “false confession” in front of a UK government official before she was allowed to leave Iran. Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 43, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was…


British–Iranian Mother Arrives Home After 6 Years Detained in Iran

British–Iranian aid worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was reunited with her family on Thursday morning, six years after she was detained in Iran. She and Anoosheh Ashoori, another British–Iranian detainee, touched down on British soil at RAF Brize Norton at just after 1 a.m. local time. A video shared on social media showed the emotional homecoming as…


G7 Foreign Ministers: Iran’s Behaviour ‘Threatens International Peace and Security’

Foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) nations said on Friday that all evidence of the recent attack on an oil tanker in the Arabian Sea “clearly points to Iran,” and that the regime’s behaviour is a threat to international peace and security. “We condemn the unlawful attack committed on a merchant vessel off the…


Harper Urges Global Powers Not to Negotiate With Incoming Iranian Regime

Governments around the world should shun Iran’s incoming president based on his long-standing record of human rights abuses, a former Canadian prime minister argued Saturday in a speech to an international conference on the state of the middle-eastern country. Stephen Harper’s remarks came at a virtual sitting of the Free Iran World Summit. Canada’s 22nd…


US Strikes Facilities in Syria Used by Iran-Backed Militia in Retaliatory Action

WASHINGTON—The United States launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by militia groups backed by the Iranian regime. The Pentagon said the strikes were retaliation for a rocket attack in Iraq earlier this month that killed one civilian contractor and wounded a U.S. service member and other coalition troops….


US Launches Retaliatory Airstrikes on Iran-Backed Militias in Syria

The United States on Thursday launched airstrikes in eastern Syria, targeting sites connected to Shia militias groups backed by the Iranian regime believed to be involved in recent attacks against U.S. targets in Iraq. The retaliatory strikes marked President Joe Biden’s first overt use of military force. “These strikes were authorized in response to recent…