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To Help A Drowning Victim
caricaturist: Mana Neyestani
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Plummeting currency hampers Iranian pilgrims
Iranian pilgrims to Saudi Arabia have been caught up in the sudden fall in the value of the Iranian rial against the Saudi rial,…
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Rial’s slide shows sanctions working: U.S.
Victoria Nuland The U.S. State Department says the sudden crash of Iran’s national currency attests to the fact that economic pressures on Iran have…
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Rial drops by another 13 percent
Iran’s currency has lost another 13 percent in value as the rial continues its freefall against foreign currencies. According to websites like Mesghal and…
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Earthquake victims face winter in tents
Iranian authorities have failed to provide adequate housing for victims of the earthquakes that rocked Eastern Azerbaijan Province in August, despite the approach of…
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Access to Gmail restored in Iran
Iranian authorities have restored access to Gmail, one week after they blocked it from users in Iran. The Google search engine is still blocked…
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Film festival lauds Iranian work
Touraj Aslani Iranian cinematographer Touraj Aslani has won the best cinematography award at the 60th San Sebastian Film Festival for his work in Rhino…
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Iranian minister slams Israeli “aggression”
Ahmad Vahidi Iran’s Defence Minister says it is Israel that has “crossed the red line” by possessing dozens of nuclear missiles. IRNA reports that…
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Iran’s currency crisis reaches new level
The Iranian currency has fallen to a historic low despite all efforts by the Islamic Republic to control the market. Iranian media report that…
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Factory closure a sign of bad times
The Pouya auto parts factory that laid off 1,300 workers in February has now completely shut down. ILNA reports that the head of Workers…
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Prisoner repents in face of death penalty
Saeed Malekpour Saeed Malekpour, an Iranian computer programmer who has been jailed and sentenced to death in Iran, has reportedly “expressed remorse and repented”,…
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U.S. removes Iranian dissident group from terrorist list
The U.S. State Department says the Iranian dissident group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran has been removed from its terrorist list. According to a…

