Ali Larijani said that Iran supports the developments in Egypt, but maintained that there was a huge difference between the events in Syria and events in Egypt, Tunisia and Iraq (where UNSC authorized military intervention). He said, “In Egypt there were no weapons. People gathered at…
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Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi was asked whether it was dangerous for Iranian nationals to visit Syria. He replied, “The situation in Syria is calm now. There is no need to take any special steps.” Answering a question about the latest status of Iranian expatriates in…
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Ahmadinejad wrote in his message to Nasrallah: “The 33-day war was undoubtedly been the greatest victory of the Lebanese and regional resistance, a war in which the soldiers of resistance managed to break the fake awe of the occupying and aggressor regime (Israel) and shake the…
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Facebook has disabled the account of Iran’s Press TV, because of what they call technical problems. Officials at Facebook claim the account will be reactivated as soon as the problem is solved. …
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Vice President and head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Fereydoun Abbasi, said on the sidelines of a ceremony to unveil a special stamp to mark the first anniversary of the death of martyred nuclear scientist Dariush Rezaeinejad, “The fourth batch of 20% enriched nuclear fuel has…
Read More →According to the IRGC public relations office, Head of the IRGC Public Relations General Ramezan Sharif said, “Due to the recent events in Syria and Iran’s support for resistance in Palestine, some Arab media in coordination with their Western counterparts have waged an immoral and hostile…
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The head of monitoring in the IRGC Navy and secretary of the recent conference of naval officers and commanders, Javad Mashidi, said at the conference’s closing ceremony that it had been positive. He further stated that during the event the IRGC’s overall strategy had been defined…
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Rear Admiral Javad Mashidi said that the necessary equipment has already been supplied for the drills and that “the IRGC naval forces are ready to carry out any mission to defend maritime borders and safeguard Iran’s security against the enemies’ possible threats.” He added that the…
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Following the West’s imposition of sanctions and boycott of Iranian oil, the search for suitable solutions to counteract the sanctions by relevant government sectors such as the National Oil Company and the Central Bank is progressing extremely slowly. Even solutions proposed previously, such as taking significant…
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Mohammad Hossein Mir Mohammadi, a member of the Majlis Economic Committee, referred to losses by Western insurance firms resulting from the restrictions on the insurance of Iranian oil tankers, and stressed that any sanctions imposed on Iran by Western countries are a blessing and that Western…
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First Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi said that the enemies’ sanctions against the Iranian people are the harshest and most unjust ever. Despite this, he stressed that Iran is a great power and will survive these sanctions as well….
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Fars reports the distribution of Indian flour to some of the bakeries inTehran, althoughIran should have been importing wheat fromIndiain return for oil, with the flour-production process carried out in local mills. Iranian flour mills are currently only operating at 50% of their manufacturing capacity. Fars…
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A fourteen-year-old blogger from Kermanshah has been interrogated several times by police for criticizing the social situation on her blog. She was identified by the cyber police, summoned for questioning several times and told that if she does not stop her activities, she will be expelled…
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Sara Mahboubi, a Baha’i student suspended from her studies, has begun serving a ten-month sentence in Sari Prison. …
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Dr. Mohammad Sharif, political prisoner Zeynab Jalalian’s lawyer, has announced that his client is in a dreadful physical and mental condition, and that her life is in danger because of insufficient proper medical treatment. According to her family, during the meeting with Zeynab, she was in…
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Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said that he had no intention of running for the upcoming 2013 presidential elections. “Reports on my participation in the presidential elections are untrue. At present, I have no plans to run in this election.” Until his announcement, Larijani was considered as…
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Sohrab Soleymani, Director General of Tehran Province Prisons, was dismissed from his post and arrested “on charges of taking from food rations of prisoners and prison guards.” Twenty people were also arrested along with Soleymani on the same charges. Because Sohrab Soleymani is the brother of…
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In a sermon for Ramadan, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi spoke of the rise in food prices and said, “The public should not complain so much about the supply of foodstuffs either. Many are complaining about the price of chicken, and it is not so important for them…
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