Iran is marking the 37th anniversary of a referendum in which Iranians overwhelmingly voted for the establishment of the Islamic Republic following the fall of the US-backed Pahlavi regime.
Iranian security forces have arrested a spy working for Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) in the southeastern city of Kerman, a judicial official says.
Iranian Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi says the US and UK must pay the damages inflicted by the 1953 coup d’état against Iran’s then popular administration.
Lawmakers in Iran have stormed at the “shameful and inhumane” 1953 coup conducted by the then US and UK governments against the first democratic government led by the late premier Mohammad Mosadeq.