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Foreign experts to help protect Persepolis, ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire, against lichens

PayvandNews – Separate teams of Italian and Spanish experts will join hands with Iranian counterparts to cope with spreading lichens in Persepolis, a World Heritage site in southern Iran.

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Expanding regional rivalries: Saudi Arabia and Iran battle it out in Azerbaijan

PayvandNews – It’s the pot calling the kettle black. As Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of seeking to encircle it with its support for Houthi rebels in Yemen as well as Qatar, the kingdom and the Islamic republic are extending their bitter rivalry beyond the Middle East into the Caucasus.

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Quds Force Commander Calls For ‘Eradication’ of Israel.

RFL/RE – Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds (Qods)Force, has called for the “eradication” of Israel in retaliation for the killing of a Hezbollah commander ten years ago. Speaking in Tehran at a ceremony commemorating the 39th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution February 14, Soleimani said “The eradication of Israel would be the best …

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Another Woman Arrested In Iran For Protesting Against Compulsory Veiling

RFL/RE – A woman has been arrested in Iran after peacefully protesting against compulsory veiling, the latest such incident in recent months. Video uploaded to YouTube on February 15 shows a woman standing on a concrete block above a crowd on Tehran’s Enghelab (Revolution) street, waving her headscarf in protest. Police then arrive on the scene and the woman appears …

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Rouhani Orders Probe Into Prison Suicides

RFL/RE – President Hassan Rouhani has appointed a committee to investigate recent “regrettable incidents” at detention centers in Iran, according to an announcement on his official website.

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