The United States Department of Justice announced on Thursday, May 28, 2026, that it had issued an indictment against an Iraqi-Iranian dual national identified as Mohammad Baqer Saad Dawood al-Saadi.
Human rights organizations have reported the killing of two Kurdish brothers and followers of the Yarsan faith, Mojtaba Veisi and Meysam Veisi, in Dalahoo County in Iran’s Kermanshah Province.
Amid the continuing arrests of Kurdish citizens in Bukan, three women identified as Homayra Aminpour, Shiler Aminpour, and Monireh Khoshnoud were arrested in recent days by security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Two recent reports by The Wall Street Journal and Reuters indicate that European concerns regarding Russia are no longer limited to the war in Ukraine.
Several trading sources, who requested anonymity, told Reuters that exports of India’s premium Basmati rice, whose major markets include Iran, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Iraq, declined by 7 percent during the first four months of the year.
HRANA reported on Tuesday, May 26, that Sara Sepehri, a Baha'i resident of Shiraz, remains in detention at Adelabad Prison more than one month after her arrest, with her legal status still unresolved.
Tasnim News Agency reported, citing an unnamed source described as being close to the Iranian negotiating team, that negotiators from the Islamic Republic are seeking the release of $24 billion as part of a possible memorandum of understanding with the United States.
On Tuesday, May 26, Marco Rubio called for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz and warned the Iranian government that if it failed to comply, the strait would be reopened “by any means necessary.”
The official news agency of Bahrain reported that a court in the country sentenced nine defendants to life imprisonment and two others to three years in prison.
On Sunday, May 24, 2026, Abolghasem Salavati, a judge of Iran’s judiciary often referred to by critics as the “Judge of Death,” reportedly rejected a criminal court ruling that had overturned previous death sentences in the “Ekbatan Township” case and reissued death
