Imed Trabelsi, a nephew of toppled Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, apologized to the Tunisian people on national television Friday for the endemic corruption during the regime. In his testimony to the Truth and Dignity Commission (IVD), a tribunal established after the 2011 revolution, Trabelsi recounted how he ...
Iranian President Hasan Rouhani won a resounding re-election victory on Saturday, according to final results. Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani-Fazli announced that Rouhani obtained 23,549,616 votes, 57 percent — compared to 15,786,449 — 38.3 percent — for his rival Ebrahim Raeisi, a principles candidate. The interior minister went on to say ...