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Radiofarda – The Tehran City Council chairman has disclosed a mind-blowing 26,000 complaints against the city over the past two years for legal violations, mostly related to illegal construction activity and financial corruption.

Al-Arabia – German prosecutors said Wednesday a court had remanded in custody an alleged Iranian spy accused of plotting to bomb an Iranian opposition rally in Paris on June 30. The suspect, a Vienna-based accredited Iranian diplomat whom opposition groups have named as Assadollah Assadi, 46, was one of several suspects detained in Germany, Belgium and France. They had allegedly …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri said that the United States pledges to halt any sale of Iranian oil will undoubtedly have an effect, acknowledging the impact of economic sanctions which will begin gradually next month. But Jahangiri said that the right step to overcome this threat is by accelerating the sale of oil and intensively. The Iranian vice …

Iran-HRM – A young man was publicly flogged in eastern city of Kashmar, in Razavi Khorasan Province, the state-run Young Journalist Club website reported on Tuesday. The 27 year old victim, identified by the state media as M.R was sentenced to 80 lashes 12 years ago for drinking alcohol beverages in a wedding party where he got engaged in a …

RFL/RE – Iranian state television and a Kurdish exile group are reporting that at least 11 people have been killed in the collision of a tanker carrying tar and a passenger bus in Iran’s Kurdistan Province. State television said the crash occurred on July 10 just before midnight some 400 kilometers west of Tehran in the city of Sanandaj. The …