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Iran allocates $2.7 billion for southern oil refinery, Mehr says

Bloomberg: Iran has allocated 2.1 billion euros ($2.7 billion) to build an oil refinery in the southern Hormozgan province that will begin operations...

Sasol’s profit drops 13% on Iranian polymer-unit writedown

Bloomberg: Sasol Ltd. (SOL), the world’s largest producer of motor fuel from coal, said first-half profit fell 13 percent as it wrote down...

Pakistan leader to break ground on Iran pipeline

AP: Pakistan's president is traveling to Iran on Monday for a ceremony to mark the start of construction of a controversial pipeline to...

Iran passes three-month stop-gap budget as sanctions hit revenue

Reuters: Iran's parliament has passed a three-month stop-gap budget while it debates President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's full-year spending proposals, delivered nearly 90 days...

Report: Blast injures several people in south Iran

AP: An Iranian semi-official news agency is reporting that an explosion has injured several people in a port in the south of the...

Iran: Haven or prison for al Qaeda?

CNN: The arrest of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law, who had been living in Iran for the past decade, has once again raised questions...

Iran-North Korea pact draws concern

Wall Street Journal: Obama administration officials are raising alarms about a scientific-cooperation pact between North Korea and Iran that officials said could...

Qantas on defensive after jumbo ended up in Iran

AFP: Qantas says it took all reasonable precautions in selling aircraft after a report revealed that a jumbo jet once owned by the...

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Renewed Protests Erupt in Iran

In recent days, Iran has witnessed fundamental changes in the nature of popular protests. The movement has evolved from...

Rising Crime and Social Breakdown After 47 Years of Clerical Rule in Iran

While Iran's regime has spent much of its resources and capabilities over more than four decades suppressing opponents, silencing...

Seventy-Eight Nobel Laureates Urge UN Action Amid Rising Executions in Iran

A coalition of 78 Nobel Prize laureates has issued a joint appeal to United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, calling...

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Iran’s Regime Upholds Death Sentences of Five Political Prisoners in Ahvaz

Karoon Human Rights Organization reported that the death sentences...

Internet Shutdowns Have Devastated the Livelihoods of Millions of Iranians

Following widespread and repeated internet shutdowns in Iran ordered...

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