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Journalists’ group bemoans president’s lack of action
Badrolsadat Mofidi The Iranian Journalists Association has announced that the new administration has not taken any action to reopen the association. ISNA reports that…
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Student activist forced to end prison furlough
Majid Tavakoli Majid Tavakoli, the Iranian student activist who was given a furlough last week, has been denied a renewal of the leave. HRANA…
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Iranian actress receives jail setence
Pegah Ahangarani Reports from Iran indicate that Iranian actress Pegah Ahangarani has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by the judiciary. Her mother,…
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Cleric urges Rohani to aim for release of opposition leaders
Ayatollah Dasgheib & MirHosein Mousavi Senior Iranian cleric Ayatollah Dastgheib has called on President Hassan Rohani to take a firm stance on the issue…
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Iranian Parliament approves two of three ministers
The Iranian Parliament has approved the Rohani administration’s choices for the top postings at the Education and Science ministries but Parliament has rejected the…
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President defends second choices to head ministries
Hassan Rohani Iranian President Hassan Rohani appeared in Parliament today to defend the new appointees he has selected to head three ministries, after his…
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Contract workers lose jobs in climate of insecurity
The head of the Bushehr Worker’s House told ILNA that 120 workers at Deep Offshore Technology Company, a subsidiary of Sadra Marine Industrial Company,…
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Nobel laureate calls mass execution illegal vengeance
Shirin Ebadi Iranian Nobel Peace Laureate Shirin Ebadi has spoken out against the mass execution of 16 convicts in Sistan-Baluchistan, saying their treatment violates…
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MP calls for justice if Mousavi daughters were assaulted
Ali Motahari Iranian MP Ali Motahari says that if the daughters of detained opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard have been assaulted, then…
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Laid-off workers air grievances outside Parliament
Workers laid off from the Zagros Steel Factory in Kurdistan staged demonstrations in front of the Iranian Parliament this morning, Sunday October 27. The…
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Official reveals statistics for sex change operations in Iran
Mohammad Saberi, the head of the Tehran Department of Forensic Psychiatry, has reported that there are eight times as many male-to-female sex change operations…
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Khatami slams attack on detained leaders’ daughters
Mohammad Khatami Former Iranian president Mohammad Khatami has expressed serious concern regarding the attack on the daughters of MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, the…