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Asghar Farhadi As Time magazine tallies votes for its Person of the Year for 2012, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, who won this year’s Oscar…

Diplomatic sources say Iran has so far declined proposals to hold nuclear talks with the G5+1 in three European countries. The Fars News Agency…

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Iranian government forces have reportedly arrested 50 farmers in the Arab regions of Iran for “protesting against the confiscation of their lands by the…

Behrouz Moradi The economic commission of Iran’s Parliament has spoken out against the announcement that affluent households will no longer receive cash payouts in…

JX Nippon Oil and Energy Corp, Japan’s biggest oil refiner, is not renewing one of its two contracts to purchase Iranian crude oil. Under…

Günter Grass A new poem by Günter Grass, the prominent German author and 1999 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, has stirred controversy…

Iran has proposed that the next round of nuclear talks with the G5+1 be held in Iraq instead of Turkey. Hooshyar Zibari, the Iraqi…

Abdolreza Sheikoleslami A motion to impeach the Minister of Labour has been handed to the Iranian Parliament, triggered by the appointment of Saeed Mortazavi…

Reza Taghipour The Iranian government has announced that it will launch the first phase of its National Internet in June. The Fars News Agency…

Munich’s media regulatory office (BLM) has ordered the SES Astra satellite to stop broadcasting the Islamic Republic’s English-language network, Press TV. The Iranian network…

The Iranian Navy Command announced that 12 pirates were arrested today, Tuesday. Iranian media report that Commander Habibollah Sayyari told a press conference that…