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Iranian writer faces long jail term for fictional novel about stoning
ranian judges have sentenced a young female writer to six years of prison for writing an unpublished story about the practice of stoning in the country. Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, a writer and human righ...
Iran to reach distributed power generation capacity of 4000MW by 2021
Iran plans to increase the capacity of power generation by its distributed power stations to 4000 megawatts (MW) by the end of its Sixth Five-Year National Development Plan (2021), according to Arash ...
Names of Mass Execution Victims in Iran Still Not Released
Only 10 of the 20 Sunni Prisoners Killed Are Identified by Authorities Iran is withholding the names of ten of the twenty Sunni prisoners who were executed in Rajaee Shahr Prison in the city of Karaj ...
Bologna hosts Iranian cultural festival
TEHRAN – Centers in the Italian city of Bologna is currently playing host to an Iranian cultural festival titled “Heart of Persia”. Art exhibitions, film screenings and theatrical performances have be...
French, Iranian artists top at Holocaust cartoon contest
- French cartoonist Zeon, who was arrested for his anti-Zionist work in March 2015, and Iranian artist Arash Forughi have won first prizes at the 2nd International Holocaust Cartoons Contest in Tehran...
Iran junior handball team wins Poland tournament
Iran junior handball team claimed the title of the Poland tournament. The Iranian team defeated Ukraine and Lithuania and lost to Poland in the competition. Poland finished in second place due to infe...
Toronto-based filmmaker released from Iranian jail
Arash Azizi was sitting in a Sarajevo cafe when he first learned from a fellow journalist that his father — Toronto-based filmmaker Mostafa Azizi — had been freed from an Iranian jail. “Apparently peo...
Toronto-Based Filmmaker Released From Iran Prison
based Iranian filmmaker Mostafa Azizi who was sentenced to eight years in prison in Iran, has been released, his son, Arash Azizi, said. Azizi wrote on Twitter on April 9 that his father had been free...
Toronto-based filmmaker freed from Iran jail: family
Hardline Iranian media accuse Manoto of being funded by Israel, Iran's arch-foe (Facebook/Parastoo Azizi)/ The Toronto-based Iranian filmmaker Mostafa Azizi has been released in Tehran one year into a...
Mostafa Azizi, Toronto-based filmmaker, released from Iranian prison
'We shall sleep calm tonight!!! My father is free!' daughter posts on Facebook/ Toronto-based filmmaker Mostafa Azizi has been released from an Iranian prison after being sentenced to eight years behi...