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Tehran seeks pressure on Israel by intl. bodies to free abducted diplomats
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry has asked international bodies to mount pressure on Israel over the abduction of four Iranian diplomats which Tehran believes are still alive and in Israeli capti...
Foreigners' purchase of Iranian shares near $23m in a month
"Overseas investors purchased 798 billion rials (about $22.7 million) of shares in Iran's capital market during the third Iranian month of Khordad (May 21- June 20, 2016), a senior official in Central...
Tehran says its diplomats are alive and in Israeli captivity
TEHRAN – The Iranian defense minister asserted on Monday that four Iranian diplomats abducted in 1982 in Lebanon are alive and in Israeli captivity, saying there is evidence to believe so. Three Irani...
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Abadan photo exhibit highlights liberation of Khorramshahr Tehran – A large collection of photographs on the theme of the liberation of Khorramshahr from Iraqi forces on May 24, 1982 opened at the Aba...
Art news in brief
A memorandum of understanding (MOU) has been signed between the National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI) and the National and University Library of Slovenia (NUK)./ The MOU inked in Ljubljana duri...
Iran urges UN to pursue fate of missing diplomats
The file photo shows four kidnapped Iranian diplomats. From left: Ahmad Motevasseliyan, Kazem Akhavan, Taqi Rastegar Moqaddam and Seyyed Mohsen Mousavi./ Iran has once again called for the formation o...
Iranian pop icon releases song about gay love
In this Feb. 2014 photo provided by Navid Akhavan on Tuesday, March 4, 2014, Navid Akhavan poses in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Iranian pop star Googoosh has released a video that addresses homosexual lov...
Iran's charm offensive belies mounting body count from executions at home
The new, moderate face Iran is showing the world belies a sinister spike in executions in the country, with hundreds killed for such crimes as “waging war against God,” according to a human rights gro...
In Iran, human rights cannot be sacrificed for a nuclear deal
Shirin Ebadi is an Iranian human rights lawyer and the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Payam Akhavan is a founder of the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center and a professor of international law at...
Baha'is want India to push Iran to treat minorities better
As Iran explores negotiations with the West on its nuclear programme, the has urged India should use its influence as a "non-threatening" power to push Tehran towards more humane treatment of its mino...
