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Concern grows for health of detained opposition leaders
Mousavi and Rahnavard An opposition website reports that the medical condition of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house…
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UN rapporteur concerned over Jabbari death sentence
Reyhaneh Jabbari Ahmad Shaheed, the UN rapporteur on human rights in Iran, has expressed grave concern regarding the trial, alleged confessions and imminent execution…
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Easing of sanctions brings latest release of frozen Iranian assets
Iran Central Bank Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, a senior member of Iran’s nuclear negotiation team, has announced that a fourth installment of frozen…
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Isfahan MPs warn president against allowing burial of U.S. scholar
Richard Frye Eight MPs representing Isfahan Province have written to the Iranian president to object to possible plans to bury American Richard Frye, a…
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IRGC leader wants economic role for guards, Basij
Mohammad Ali Jafari The head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) spoke out against the Rohani administration for failing to use the capabilities of…
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Iran lodges complaint against US over UN envoy
Hamid Aboutalebi Spokesperson for Iran’s foreign ministry announced that Iran is in the process of filing a complaint against the United States for not…
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Iran rejects Dutch visit over plans for other meetings
A member of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission says a visit to Iran by Dutch parliamentarians was cancelled because the delegates…
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Officials enlisted to allow American scholar’s burial in Iran
Pope Mausoleum in Isfahan The chairman of the Great Islamic Encyclopedia has written to the Iranian president, the foreign minister and the Isfahan governor…
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MP complaints lead to action on “starred” students
A spokesman for Iran’s Article 90 Commission says following complaints from three MPs about the minister of science, the commission has finally managed to…
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Water shortages threaten Tehran, other cities
Iran’s Ministry of Power reports that Tehran is on the verge of a water shortage, saying: “Arak, Isfahan, Shiraz, Qazvin, Qom, Karaj, Kerman, Mashhad,…
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Dozens arrested ahead of Iranian-Arab protests
Human rights activists in Ahwaz report that scores of Iranian-Arabs have been arrested in anticipation of protests this coming Tuesday April 15 aimed at…
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Poachers caught, punished for killing rare deer
Five deer in the Dasht-e Qanat region of Bordsir in Kerman province were killed by poachers this spring. ISNA reports that a spokesman for…