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Lavrov: Russia will not support US bid to change Iran nuclear deal

Al-Arabia – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday Moscow will not support attempts by Washington to modify the Iran nuclear deal. Lavrov spoke days after US President Donald Trump said he would waive nuclear sanctions against Iran for the last time to give Washington and its European allies a chance to fix the “terrible flaws” of the 2015 …

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Iran Says Over 400 Protesters Still Detained, 25 People Killed

RFL/RE – Iran’s judiciary says that about 465 people are still being detained across the country for taking part in a wave of antigovernment protests that began nearly three weeks earlier. Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei also acknowledged that 25 people were killed in violence surrounding the protests that began on December 28. Iran’s Judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni-Ejei Tehran prosecutor Abbas …

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Iran Lifts Restrictions on Messaging App Telegram

RFL/RE – Iran has lifted restrictions on the messaging app Telegram, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday. The popular service had been blocked during recent public protests, the most serious nationwide unrest in the Islamic republic since 2009. cartoon by Mohammadreza Saghafi, Iranian daily Shargh “An informed source announced that the filtering of the Telegram messenger has been ended …

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Stricken Iranian Oil Tanker Sinks, ‘No Hope’ Of Finding Survivors

RFL/RE – A stricken Iranian oil tanker that was burning for more than a week following a collision with a Chinese cargo ship in the East China Sea has sunk after drifting into the waters of Japan’s economic exclusion zone. Chinese state television reports that the ship sank shortly after another portion of its cargo “suddenly ignited” at about noon …

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Tehran Art Auction 2018 sells out 120 mind-melting lots, signals flourishing market

PayvandNews – The 8th edition of Tehran Auction contemporary art sale broke a new record on Friday, January 12, signalling a flourishing market for contemporary Iranian art. The winter sale built on the success of its spring – 14.952 billion tomans to be exact, or over $3 million. Parsian Hotel was host to the 8th edition of Tehran Auction where …

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