Iran

Iran is claiming it shot a monkey into space and it came back alive. How this is remotely OK in this day and age is beyond me. Yeah, all in one piece and good to go in what appears to be the most ridiculously shoddy piece of space shooting...

Two Iranian soccer players are facing up to 74 lashes after their celebratory behavior ran afoul of the Islamic nation’s notoriously conservative sensibilities. From The Age: Members of parliament, sports officials and judges have called for the “swift punishment” of Mohammad Nosrati and Sheys Rezaei, two football stars who...