Iran

The 350-hectare university is built on one of Tehran's most dangerous faults.

The director of the Earthquake Department of the Road, Housing and Urban Development Research Center says that the Science and Research Unit of Azad University is located on a land area of...

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8 killed, 28 injured in student bus overturn

A bus carrying students from the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University overturned, killing at least 8 people and…

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"University of London professor released from Iranian prison and returns to Britain"

Reuters reported on Tuesday, citing the BBC, that Abbas Adalat, a British citizen of Iranian descent imprisoned in Iran, has been released.

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Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi passed away

Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, head of the Expediency Discernment Council, died in Tehran on Monday, January 23, after a long illness. He…

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Two teachers imprisoned in Evin prison react to the burning of students in Zahedan

Mahmoud Beheshti Langroodi and Ismail Abdi, two imprisoned teachers, in response to the fire at a school in Zahedan, in response to the popular uprisings…

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Protest rally of families of imprisoned Ahvaz steel workers

Families of detained workers of the National Iranian Steel Group in Ahvaz held a protest rally demanding their release. Officials…

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Women entering the stadium and authorities' continued opposition; Deputy Judiciary Minister raises two conditions

Conservatives in Iran continue to oppose women's presence in the stadium, and a senior judicial official has set two conditions for...

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New details of Esmaeil Bakhshi's "severe torture": from beatings with batons to administering psychiatric drugs

A relative of Ismail Bakhshi, a representative of Haft Tappeh sugarcane workers, details the torture of this worker during his detention by security agencies…

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