Due to using non-standard and outdated safety equipment, there are currently extremely harsh working conditions in Iran’s coal mines, threatening lives of thousands of the country’s coal miners. “Lives of 13,000 coal miners are in …
Similar to the Turks, Kurds, Lors and Persians, Arabs live as the original inhabitants throughout Iran. The Arabs did not only live on the coast of the Arabian Gulf, its islands and the “Arabistan of …
Turkey’s prime minister personally ordered the resumption of a scheme to launder billions of dollars in Iranian oil revenue and circumvent U.S. sanctions in 2014 after an investigation into the matter was quashed, a government …
The UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Syria has rebuked Russia and Iran for not doing more to give aid agencies access to a besieged rebel enclave. Jan Egeland told the BBC the failure to persuade the …
Turkmenistan plans to take a dispute with Iran over gas supplies to international arbitration over $1.8 billion Ashbagat says Tehran owes for deliveries of natural gas, a report said as quoted by Tasnim News. The …
Former Tehran Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi, the only official who has been held accountable for the death of a protestor who was tortured in the Kahrizak Detention Center in 2009, has publicly objected to his two-year …
The Iranian regime authorities of Intelligence prison in Sanandaj placed a Kurdish political prisoner under the worst torture, Track Persia reports. According to reports, the Intelligence agents of Sanandaj prison tried to force the Kurdish …
Less than three weeks after a deadly earthquake hit Iran’s western province of Kermanshah, a temblor measuring 6 on the Richter scale struck a southeastern area near the city of Kerman on Friday morning, but …
Websites affiliated with former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad were blocked in Iran and the country’s most widely used state-approved video-sharing site barred users from accessing Ahmadinejad-related content after the politician criticized state officials in a recent …
The Asian sport of Kabaddi, a popular contact sport that is a mix of rugby, wrestling and tag, held the 2017 Championship match in Gorgan, Iran this week. Strict reactionary norms imposed by Iranian regime …
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