Key points: “The West has tried to deprive Muslim women of their identity through an all-out effort… considers women to be a “commodity” and an object for the pleasure of men (on the other hand)… “Islam believes that a woman is honorable, dignified and progressive, and believes…
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Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi called for the establishment of an international investigative committee to determine the fate of four Iranian diplomats who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982. He added that there is evidence that the four are alive and being held by the Zionists….
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Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs, Hossein Amir Abdollahian, spoke about the visit by UN-Arab League Special Envoy Kofi Annan to Tehran and said that one purpose of the visit was to report on the agreement reached with Syrian President Bashar Assad. He…
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Over the past several months, Syria has been turned into the main focus of international developments and the main battlefield of confrontation between the East and the West. On one hand there are the countries (Iran, China and Russia) that oppose foreign intervention. On the other…
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Ramadan Sharif, Head of the Intifada and Al-Qods (Jerusalem) Office of the Islamic Propaganda Coordination Council, said at the first meeting called to plan for Al-Qods Day 2012 that the undeniable fear felt by the Zionist regime is a harbinger of its demise and the realization…
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Alaeddin Boroujerdi, Chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee, said that since the UK was tasked by the NATO with the responsibility of the campaign against drugs in Afghanistan, production of narcotics has increased from the minimum 200 tons in the Taliban era to…
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Several Iranian news agencies quoted a report obtained by Bloomberg. In the report to Congress, the Pentagon said, “Iran has boosted the lethality and effectiveness of existing (missile) systems by improving accuracy and developing new submunition payloads” that extend the destructive power over a wider area…
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The Russian Federal Service for Military-Technological Cooperation (FSMTC) has informed Iran of its position on suspending the shipments of S-300 air defense systems. The FSMTC Deputy Director said, “We are trying to explain to our Iranian partners that they are wrong. If they want normal cooperation…
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Mohammad Khaza’i said that the future arms trade treaty should be drafted in such a way that it respects the legitimate rights of every country to defend itself….
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Yadollah Javani, Advisor to the Leader’s IRGC representative, explained the rationale behind closing the Strait of Hormuz. He said that Iran has every right to defend its vital interests and values, and “When the United States imposes an oil embargo and exerts pressures on other states to…
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Tehran Mayor Mohammed-Baqer Qalibaf, speaking at a seminar at Tehran University, said, “It is impossible to maintain our current economic situation. It is unacceptable. When we had USD 16 billion in oil revenues, we had an unemployment crisis, inflation and weakness. Now, our revenues reach USD…
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The ever-rising inflation that has hit Iran in recent months and the inability of senior officials to implement effective programs to curb the price increases repeatedly give rise to the difficult question being asked by the public: What is the problem with our economy? Citizens buckling…
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The University Jihad Organization, Oil Ministry’s Products Supply Company and Industrial Development Company signed a memorandum of agreement in the presence of Defense Minister, Ahmad Vahidi, and Oil Minister, Rostam Qassemi. The agreement for 14 oil rigs is valued at EUR 15 billion, not including the…
Read More →Dozens of workers in the Perlite Adia steel factory were fired from them jobs after participating in a demonstration protesting the non-payment of their wages. …
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Narges Mohammadi, a political prisoner and VP of Defenders of Human Rights Center, was admitted to a hospital because her medical condition worsened. Her doctors have warned on several occasions that the conditions of her imprisonment would be detrimental to her health. At her last meeting…
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The Ministry of Intelligence is preventing a couple, in which both partners are jailed, from meeting. Journalist Massoud Bastani was arrested in the post-election events and sentenced to six years in prison for propaganda against the regime, participating in a demonstration and disturbing the public order….
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Miad Afshar, a student at Baha‘i University and brother of Misagh Afshar, a member of the Committee against Discrimination in Higher Education, was arrested at his home in Tehran. According to eye witnesses, a very large security force arrived at his home, conducted searches and confiscated…
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A court in southeastern Sistan-Baluchestan province has handed down death sentences against two individuals on charges of murder. Head of the judiciary of Sistan-Baluchestan province said that the two had abducted a young female teacher and later murdered her. They have been sentenced to death by…
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Iranian poet, Hamid Sabzwari, criticized the state of poetry and literature in Iran. He said, “Today citizens spend most of their time eking out a living and have no leisure time remaining for culture and literature.” …
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The conservative Alef website was blocked on July 9. Judiciary Spokesman, Hojjatoleslam Gholamhoseyn Mohseni-Ezhe’I, confirmed the “filtering,” but offered no explanation for the blocking of the website, which is affiliated to senior Majlis member Ahmad Tavakkoli, a blunt critic of Ahmadinejad. The news websites announced that…
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