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Moderate clerics receive most Assembly of Experts votes in Tehran
The preliminary results of the vote count for the Assembly of Experts reveal that in Tehran moderate figures Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani and President Hassan…
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Conflicting reports about voting by detained opposition leaders
The Kaleme website reports that opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard, who have been under house arrest since February 2011, cast their votes…
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Two voting stations close over “extremist chanting”
Chants in support of ending the house arrest of opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi, Zahra Rahnavard and Mehdi Karroubi have led to the temporary closure…
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Minister says administration resisted pressure to censor internet
Iran’s Minister of Communications says the administration has resisted pressure from certain government bodies to implement widespread censorship on the internet in preparation for…
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Iranians vote for parliamentary, Assembly of Experts Reps
Elections for the tenth Islamic Republic parliament and the fifth Assembly of Experts is underway in Tehran today Friday February 26, 2016. The government…
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Protests sparked by abuse of dog leads to violent arrests
Reports from Iran indicate that protests staged by animal rights activists in front of Parliament on Wednesday February 25 were met with a violent…
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Activist couple financially ruined by arrests get sentenced
Arash Sadeghi and Golrokh Irayi, a political activist couple, have been sentenced to fifteen and six years respectively for their activism, and the sentence…
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Long-detained opposition leader demands right to vote
Mehdi Karroubi, the Iranian opposition leader who has been under house arrest since 2011 for triggering protests with allegations of vote fraud along with…
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Reformist candidate suffers attacks on car, relatives
Reports from Azerbaijan indicate that the automobile of Masood Namazi, a reformist candidate in Shabastar, was set on fire. Namazi is reportedly a board…
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Crackdown on teachers’ protests yields another jail term
Teachers’ rights activist Esmail Abdi has been sentenced to six years in jail according to the Workers and Teachers Rights Website. The report adds…
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Authorities announce total blocking of social networking apps
Social networking sites Line, WhatsApp and Tango are now subject to complete censorship, according to the Iranian judiciary, and all access to them is…
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Ahwaz air pollution skyrockets due to dust particles
Ahwaz officials say the concentration of dust particles in the city’s air has risen to over 24 times the acceptable level. IRNA reports that…