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Iran-bound plane slides off runway in Sweden

AP: An Iran Air-owned Airbus bound for Tehran slid off a Stockholm runway on Saturday, but no one was hurt, a Swedish airport official...

Magnitude 5.0 quake hits western Iranian town: USGS

Reuters: A magnitude 5.0 quake struck very close to the western Iranian town of Dezful Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. WASHINGTON (Reuters)...

PRESS DIGEST – Iran – Jan 16

Reuters: These are some of the leading stories in Iranian newspapers on Saturday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for...

French academic’s lawyer upbeat on Iran verdict

AFP: French academic Clotilde Reiss's lawyer expressed confidence she would be acquitted after she appeared in court in Tehran on Saturday on charges of...

Iran warns protesters era of ‘mercy’ is over

New York Times: Iran’s national police chief issued a stark warning to the country’s opposition on Friday, saying the era of “mercy” was over...

Iran police warn against SMS, email protest calls

AFP: Iran's police chief has warned opposition supporters against using text and email messages to organise rallies, ISNA news agency said Friday, amid reports...

INTERVIEW – Iran diplomat expects more to quit in protest

Reuters: A former Iranian diplomat to Norway, who announced his resignation earlier this month in protest against Tehran's crackdown on pro-reform demonstrators, said on...

Ahmadinejad sees “Zionist style” in Iran bombing

Reuters: This week's assassination of an Iranian scientist was carried out in a "Zionist style," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday, in his first...

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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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Political Prisoner Yahgoub Derakhshan Sentenced to Death for a Second Time

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