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Road accident deaths decline in Iran
Iran’s Coroner’s Office has released a report indicating 7,489 people were killed in road accidents in the past five months. IRNA reports that this…
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Nitrate levels in Tehran water may threaten infant health
Tehran’s water supply may contain a high level of nitrates, says the chairman of Tehran City Council’s committee for health, the environment and utilities.…
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Khuzestan sugar cane factory workers back on strike
Workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane factory have gone on strike once again, this time to protest unfair differences in wages and benefits…
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“Happy” video members sentenced to lashes
Seven members of the group that made a YouTube video of the song “Happy” in Tehran have been sentenced to 99 lashes for “illicit…
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Compulsory military service lengthened in Iran
Conscription in Iran will now be for a two-year period, up from 21 months, beginning the next Iranian calendar year. A spokesman for the…
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Larger Iranian cities to elect mayor by popular vote
Iran’s Parliament has approved a preliminary bill to allow cities with more than 200,000 residents to have their mayor directly elected by the public.…
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Rohani slams British PM’s statements
Iranian President Hassan Rohani said upon his return to Tehran on the night of Monday September 29 that he had met with British Prime…
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Group sues minister for letting women sing solo
The head of the Family of Martyrs and Veterans Association reported on Tuesday September 30 that a suit has been filed against Culture Minister…
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Woman arrested at volleyball game now charged
Ghoncheh Qavami Ghoncheh Qavami, the Iranian woman who was detained three months ago for trying to enter a stadium to watch a volleyball game,…
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Iran condemns U.S. strikes on Syria
Hossein Amir-Abdollahian Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdolahian has slammed the U.S. bombing of Syria, saying the illegal attacks will only lead to…
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Two Iranian women may soon face execution
Reyhaneh Jabbari Reyhaneh Jabbari and Ashraf Nazari, two Iranian women convicted of murder, have been transferred to solitary confinement in Rejai Shahr Prison and…
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Iran reaches fifth place with ten gold medals
On the tenth day of the Asian Games the Iranian caravan won three more gold medals in freestyle wrestling giving Iran a total of…

