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Insurance aid requested for treatment of land mine victims
Iran’s Ministry of Health has been urged to provide land mine victims with the health insurance needed to help them recover as best possible…
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Activist Qavami refuses food to protest undetermined legal state
Goncheh Qavami, the Iranian activist jailed after trying to enter a stadium to watch a volleyball game with a group of other women, has…
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Culture minister faces heat over films
A group of Iranian MPs is collecting signatures in order to summon Culture Minister Ali Jannati to Parliament for questioning. Meanwhile, a spokesman for…
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Police official downplays acid attacks in Isfahan
Ahmadreza Radan, the Chief of Police Strategic Studies, says the acid assaults on women in Isfahan have been “blown out of proportion [which allowed]…
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Iran approves heavy budget to save drying lake
Iran’s administration approved on Sunday November 3 the plans developed by the task force to save the rapidly drying Lake Urmia, including a budget…
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Iran puts forth various plans to save endangered forests
The Ministry of Agriculture is calling for a reduction in tariffs on logging imports as a solution for saving Iranian forests from destruction. Iran's Minister…
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Iran says nuclear talks now set for one week sooner
Abbas Araqchi, the Iranian deputy foreign minister, has announced that the next round of nuclear talks between Iran and the 5+1 is set for…
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Up to a year in jail for woman detained at volleyball match
Ghoncheh Qavami, one of the women who demanded entrance to a stadium to watch a volleyball game, has been sentenced to one year in…
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Industrial polluters on new list expected to pay damage tax
Iran’s Department of the Environment has made a list of 3,100 industrial polluters across the country with most of them found respectively in Isfahan,…
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Reporter who covered Isfahan protests set free on bail
Arya Jafari, an ISNA reporter detained for nine days by the Isfahan Revolutionary Guards for covering public protests against acid attacks on women, was…
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Oil sales to Asia bounce back to over a million barrels a day
Iran’s oil exports to the Asian market have once again exceeded one million barrels a day, with China, India, Japan and South Korea as…
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Iran looks at legislation protecting intellectual property
President Hassan Rohani has presented to the parliament a bill to protect of intellectual property which includes artistic, industrial and scientific property. The Justice Minister Mostafa…