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Iran: WhatsApp, Instagram to remain blocked after Mahsa Amini protests
Tehran: The Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi announced on Wednesday that the government will continue to restrict access to social media networks— Instagram and WhatsApp, which have been blocked for months due to…
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Iran blames Iraq-based Kurd groups in Isfahan drone attack
Tehran: The parts and explosives used in a recent drone attack on a military plant in the central Iranian province of Isfahan were transferred into the country by “hostile” Kurdish groups based…
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Iran sentences couple for over 10 years in prison after dancing in public
Tehran: An Iranian couple was sentenced to 10 and a half years in jail on Tuesday for dancing in Azadi Square in Iran’s capital Tehran. The Instagram influencers— 21-year-old Astiyazh Haghigi and…
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Renowned Iranian filmmaker banned from travel for supporting protests
Tehran: The Iranian authorities imposed a travel ban on the well-known filmmaker Masoud Kimiai, after he expressed his support for the protests that have been sweeping the Islamic Republic for months. The…
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Israel’s cyber security chief blames Iran for cyberattacks
Jerusalem: Gaby Portnoy, Director-General of Israel National Cyber Directorate (INCD), has accused Iran of “leading an aggressive, orchestrated campaign against Israel’s cyberspace”. Portnoy made the remarks on Tuesday at the annual CyberTech…
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Iran: Journalist to serve 2 yrs in jail for Amini’s father’s interview
Tehran: The Iranian judicial authorities sentenced journalist Nazila Maroufian to two years in prison, for interviewing Amjad Amini, father of Mahsa Amini, whose death in a headquarters of the morality police sparked…
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Iran worried over Chinas recent embrace of Saudi Arabia
Tehran: Iran which is facing its lowest level of domestic legitimacy and international acceptance, seems to have lost China as well, reported The Jakarta Post. Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia…
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Iran, Saudi Arabia to resume normalisation talks soon: FM
Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that Iran and Saudi Arabia are expected to resume talks on normalising ties soon, the official news agency IRNA reported. Amir-Abdollahian made the…
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Indigenous children graves in Canada proof of ‘genocide’: Iran
Tehran: The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani has said that the recent discovery of new mass graves of “innocent” indigenous children in Canada is evidence of a “major human tragedy” that…
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Iran’s Olympic skier Atefeh Ahmadi seeks asylum in Germany
Iranian figure skating champion Atefeh Ahmadi left her home country and applied for asylum in Germany. Ahmadi had travelled to Germany to be able to participate in the Courchevel-Meribel 2023 Alpine Ski World…
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Iran reports drone attack on military facility
Tehran: Drones attacked a defence facility in Iran’s Isfahan city, media reports said. “An explosion has occurred in one of the military centres affiliated to the Ministry of Defence,” deputy head of…
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3 killed, 816 injured after 5.9 magnitude earthquake jolt Iran
Tehran: At least three people were killed and 816 others injured after a 5.9 magnitude quake hit Iran’s Khoy city. The quake hit the region at 21.44 p.m. local time on Saturday…
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Iran: 9 killed, 20 injured in 3 road accidents in 2 days
Tehran: Two people were killed and 13 others injured in a multi-vehicle pileup on an intercity road in the southeastern Iranian province of Kerman on Saturday, the IRIB news agency reported. The…
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US arrests 3 people for plotting against Iranian activist Masih Alinejad
US Attorney General Merrick Garland announced on Friday, the arrest of 3 people on suspicion of involvement in what he described as a “Tehran-backed plot” for attempting to assassinate journalist and a…
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GCC countries condemn armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in Iran
Riyadh: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries “strongly condemned” Friday’s armed attack on Azerbaijan’s embassy in the Iranian capital of Tehran. On Friday morning, January 27, a man armed with a Kalashnikov-style rifle stormed…
