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Professors write in defence of embattled Science Minister
More than 900 professors at Iranian universities have issued a statement expressing their support for Science and Technology Minister Reza Faraji-Dana. The Etemad daily…
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Miners in Semnan Province stage sit-in to protest privatization
Miners at the Eastern Alborz Mine began a strike today, Sunday July 6, to protest the privatization of the mine. OLNA reports that according…
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Iranian official complains to UN about rapporteur’s “bias”
Mohammad Javad Larijani The head of the Iranian judiciary’s Human Rights Headquarters has written to the United Nation’s High Commissioner of Human Rights to…
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Rafsanjani calls for Saudi-Iranian effort against extremists
Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, has called on Iran and Saudi Arabia to cooperate in the fight against extremism in…
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Plan approved to dismantle dams, replenish lakes
Iran’s Department of the Environment had announced that the minister of power has accepted the plan to dismantle a number of dams in order…
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Building in Persepolis vicinity halted for code violation
A university building project in the Persepolis area has been halted by Cultural Heritage officials of Fars Province because it violates building regulations for…
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Mining in southern Tehran adds to pollution in capital
The over-exploitation of construction material mines in southern Tehran has become a source of dust particles, adding to air pollution problems in the Iranian…
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Poaching adds to woes of Ilam species
The head of Ilam Environmental Protection says 46 illegal hunters have been arrested in the past six months. Abdolsaheb Bazyar told IRNA that the…
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Kazeroon forest fire still out of control
One hundred hectares of meadow and forest in Kazeroon in Fars Province have burnt down in a fire that started on Tuesday July 1.…
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Tehran’s daily power outages bring call for restraint
Tehran is facing a daily power outage that lasts for hours. The Shargh daily reports that the first days of summer in Tehran have…
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Province beefs up security around “Burnt City”
Now that the “Burnt City” has been registered as Iran’s 17th cultural site on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the Sistan-Baluchistan Prosecutor’s Office is…
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Journalist group seeks to re-establish itself
Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, the head of Iran’s disbanded Association of Journalists, has called on the Minister of Culture to take the last step to resurrect…

