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Category: Latest News
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National Football coach grounded for tax evasion
Carlos Queiroz, the Portuguese head coach of Iran’s National Football Team, has been banned from leaving Iran on the charge of tax evasion. Queiroz…
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Zarif responds to Obama’s Norooz message to Iran
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif responded to the U.S. president’s Norooz message posted on the White House website and addressing the Iranian people…
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Four Iranian provinces facing severe water shortage
According to Iran’s Meteorology Department, four provinces in Western and Central Iran have been facing severe drought for the past six months. The Mehr…
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Prisoner’s father threatens self-immolation if son not freed
Ahmad Ronaghi Maleki, the father of jailed blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki, has threatened to set himself on fire in front of the prosecutor’s office…
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Young football fans in Ahwaz clash with police
Report from Ahwaz indicate that a group of young football fans found themselves in conflict with the police on the sidelines of the football…
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Street vendor ban leads frustrated man to set himself on fire
Khorramshahr City Hall has expressed regret over the news that Younes Asakereh, a street vendor who set himself on fire in front of the…
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Firearms training planned for Iranian forest rangers
More than 1,000 Iranian forest rangers are to receive special training in the use of firearms in a program developed by the Department of…
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Minimum wage increase falls far short of workers’ hopes
After workers’ representatives failed to follow through on their threat to leave the negotiating table, the Supreme Council of Labour approved a mere 17-percent…
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Mehdi Hashemi receives prison sentence and cash fines
The spokesman for the Iranian judiciary announced that Mehdi Hashemi, the son of Iran’s Expediency Council chief, moderate cleric Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been…
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Minimum wage increase under consideration called inadequate
The increase to the minimum wage for the new Iranian calendar year will be finally determined on Sunday March 15, but independent labour organizations…
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Talks to lift UN sanctions may thwart Republican senators
World powers have begun talks on lifting US sanctions on Iran as a result of the possible agreement between Iran and the 5+1 to…
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ISIS resisting as Iran helps Iraqi forces try to retake Tikrit
On Wednesday March 11, Iraqi government military forces and armed volunteer militia forces of Hashid Shaabi supported by Iran, entered Tikrit; however, reports indicate…