$6 billion black-market imports in Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 04 – The head of Iran’s Office to Combat Smuggled Goods estimated that nearly $6 billion of
all foreign imports come from the black-market every year and hinted at widespread government corruption as the cause.

$6 billion black-market imports in Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 04 – The head of Iran’s Office to Combat Smuggled Goods estimated that nearly $6 billion of
all foreign imports come from the black-market every year and hinted at widespread government corruption as the cause.

Iran’s elections: conservatives and hardliners dominate

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Iran Focus Analysis: Tehran, Jan. 03 – Candidates set to stand in Iran’s June 17th presidential elections are seen by many Iran experts as right-wing extremists loyal to hardline Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Several of them, including former heads of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), have announced their candidacy for president.

Iran’s elections: conservatives and hardliners dominate

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Iran Focus Analysis: Tehran, Jan. 03 – Candidates set to stand in Iran’s June 17th presidential elections are seen by many Iran experts as right-wing extremists loyal to hardline Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Several of them, including former heads of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), have announced their candidacy for president.

GCC wary of Iran nuclear activities

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UPI: Officials of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council said Monday they see no justification for Iran’s nuclear program and are skeptical about it.
GCC Secretary-General Abdel Rahman Attiya was quoted in the Saudi daily al-Watan as saying, “Saudi Arabia and the other GCC countries can’t find any justification for such nuclear activity which poses great dangers for all the peoples in the Gulf region.”

Angry residents blockade Iran’s roads

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 03 – Angry residents in Tehran’s 17th district blockaded the main freeway on Saturday protesting against the unsafe conditions which regularly result in fatal accidents.
Protesters stopped all traffic flowing on the Javaneh freeway between the 17th and 19th districts in the Iranian capital.

Angry residents blockade Iran’s roads

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 03 – Angry residents in Tehran’s 17th district blockaded the main freeway on Saturday protesting against the unsafe conditions which regularly result in fatal accidents.
Protesters stopped all traffic flowing on the Javaneh freeway between the 17th and 19th districts in the Iranian capital.

Iranian terrorists kidnapping Iraqis in southern province: sources

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Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 02 – Iranian agents are systematically kidnapping Iraqis for ransom in the southern Iraqi province of Missan, local residents say. “Iranian terrorist agents kidnap Iraqis on the Ozeys route and take them to Iran, demanding large ransoms for their return”, a local Iraqi said.

Iranian terrorists kidnapping Iraqis in southern province: sources

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Iran Focus: Baghdad, Jan. 02 – Iranian agents are systematically kidnapping Iraqis for ransom in the southern Iraqi province of Missan, local residents say. “Iranian terrorist agents kidnap Iraqis on the Ozeys route and take them to Iran, demanding large ransoms for their return”, a local Iraqi said.

Four million drug addicts exist in Iran

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Iran Focus: Tehran, Jan. 02 – An Iranian official in charge of combating drugs in Iran stated that there are presently more than four million drug addicts in the country. Moussalreza Servati, a member of the Iranian Majlis’ Social Committee,
said yesterday, “At the start of the revolution we had perhaps 150,000 addicts, but presently we are facing four million addicts”.