Radiofarda – Iran has unveiled a new missile, Ghassed 3(Messenger), on Thursday in a military exhibition in Tehran, Mehr news agency reports.
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U.N. Nuclear Watchdog Warns Against Pressuring It On Inspections
Radiofarda – The U.N. nuclear watchdog policing Iran’s deal with major powers said on Wednesday that attempts to pressure it on inspections were “counter-productive and extremely harmful”, though it stopped short of naming those responsible.
Read More »Iran Says It Has traced Two Ancient Sculptures Stolen Decades Ago
Radiofarda – Tehran has claimed that it has traced two more Achaemenid bas-relief sculptures stolen from Iran nearly ninety years ago.
Read More »Iran Nuclear Chief Criticizes China For Not Helping With Reactor
Radiofarda – The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Ali Akbar Salehi, has said on Thrusday that if China does not help Iran with its Arak nuclear reactor, Iran will do it alone.
Read More »Rouhani Says Iran Facing Toughest Economic Situation In 40 Years, Blames Sanctions
Radiofarda – President Hassan Rouhani delivered a speech on Wednesday saying that Iran is facing its toughest economic situation in 40 years, but he added that U.S. sanctions are to blame; not the Islamic Republic or the current government.
Read More »Outspoken Lawmaker Blasts Colleagues For Corruption
Radiofarda – Outspoken member of parliament from Tehran Mahmoud Sadeghi is once again taking aim at what he says is vast corruption in Iran’s government.
Read More »Former Minister Admits Taking Millions From South Koreans
Radiofarda – Three suspects implicated in a criminal case against Sarmayeh Bank, including a former government minister, have been put behind bars with bail set at ten trillion rials (roughly $240,000).
Read More »Iran Continues To Hand Down Cruel Punishments For Impoverished Convicted Thieves
Iran-HRM – A 27-year old man was sentenced to three years in prison and 74 lashes for “stealing a chicken” in Laly city in the southwestern province of Khuzestan.
Read More »87th Woman Executed Under Rouhani In Iran
Iran-HRM – A woman was hanged on Wednesday, January 30, 2019, in Nowshahr Prison, in the northern Iranian province of Mazandaran.
Read More »Two Members Of The Free Union Of Iranian Workers Arrested
Iran-HRM – The state security forces arrested the secretary of the board of directors of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, Jafar Azimzadeh, and vice president of the union, Parvin Mohammadi, on January 29.
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