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Fourth day of fires in Gachsaran forests
200 hectares of forests and pastures in Gachsaran County have been burned so far. Local authorities say they have been unable to contain the fire…
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A Kurdish political prisoner was sentenced to 5 years in prison.
Sakineh Parvaneh, a Kurdish political prisoner from Khorasan who is being held in Qarchak Prison in Varamin, was sentenced by the Tehran Revolutionary Court…
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Daily increase of more than two thousand cases of coronavirus in official Iranian statistics; reopening of shrines
Despite the daily increase of more than two thousand coronavirus cases in Iran's official statistics, the Deputy General of the Ministry of Health...
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Tehran Prosecutor's Office Considers Accusing Khuzestan Governor of Receiving Bribes "Illegal"
Following the court's investigation into the charges against Omid Asadbeigi, CEO of the Hafte Tapeh Sugarcane Company, and his statements about paying "bribes to...
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Three Haft Tappeh union activists were pardoned after serving five years in prison.
The convictions of three protesting Haft Tappe workers and four civil society and student activists were included in the amnesty. Esmaeil Bakhshi, Mohammad Khanifar,…
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Khorasan Razavi's guidance advisor called a Sunni mosque in Zahedan a "house of corruption"
Mohammad Bagher Tabatabaei, advisor to the Khorasan Razavi Province Guidance Department, wrote on his Twitter account that the Makki Mosque of Zahedan, the largest Sunni mosque in Iran…
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First Iranian oil tanker enters Venezuelan waters
The first of five tankers carrying Iranian fuel entered Venezuela's exclusive economic zone on Saturday evening local time. To…
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Khuzestan Governor Refuses to Explain Allegation of Receiving Tens of Thousands of Dollars in Bribes from Haft Tappeh CEO
Following the publication of reports from the closed trial of the CEO of Haft Tappeh regarding his "bribery of tens of thousands of dollars to the wife of the governor of Khuzestan",…
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