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An Iranian daily affiliated with the Islamic Azad University called on the government to make a set of reforms in line with the demands of the public, including replacing inefficient managers and removing the ban on popular social media platforms.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the Americans are lying in their claims that the 1979 takeover of their embassy in Tehran first triggered a dispute between the Iranian nation and the US, describing the 1953 coup against Iran’s elected government as the starting point in the row.
A group of Iranian people, mostly those disabled in the 1980s Iraqi war and families of those martyred in the aggression, have held a demonstration against Germany — a supplier of chemical arms to Iraq under ex-dictator Saddam Hussein — over Berlin’s support for the recent riots and unrest in Iran under the guise of backing “human rights.”
The head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says the organization intends to generate enough power to meet 20 percent of national demand, equaling 14,000 megawatts.
The caretaker director of the Iranian Vice Presidency for Science and Technology says there are “golden opportunities” for Iran in the medicinal herb industry.
President Ebrahim Raisi says Iran’s economic ties with Armenia have witnessed a 43-percent growth over the past months, and that the two neighbors have set a goal to increase the value of their trade to $3 billion.
The foreign ministry of the Islamic Republic of Iran has imposed sanctions on some American real and legal persons for “committing acts against human rights, interfering in the internal affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran and provoking violence and disorder in Iran,” among others.
Iran’s Intelligence Ministry says it has identified and arrested seven individuals who had been involved in the terrorist attack in Shah Cheragh Shrine in Shiraz.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan will travel to the Iranian capital, Tehran, on Tuesday, when he is due to meet with President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran.
A member of the Iranian Parliament has not ruled out the possibility that a recent brawl and fire at the Evin Prison in Tehran may have been meant to provide an opportunity to kill Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani’s imprisoned son.
Iran’s Intelligence Minister Esmaeil Khatib announced that a second suspect was arrested on Sunday night over ties to the deadly shooting at the Shah Cheragh Shrine in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, which left 13 dead and dozens wounded.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has described as irresponsible the recent comments by German officials on the possibility of imposing sanctions on the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC).
The Iranian foreign minister has voiced Tehran’s opposition to the presence of foreign forces in the region, saying foreign presence complicates the situation and is against the regional stability.
The naval forces of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have seized a foreign tanker in the Persian Gulf region for smuggling of 11 million liters of fuel.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has said the enemies have tried hard to stop scientific, industrial, and service-based activities of Iran, but their plots were doomed to failure.
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says the Zionist regime and reactionary forces cannot hide behind the mask of the Daesh terrorist group and anti-Iran Saudi-funded media based in London, holding them responsible for the recent deadly unrest in Iran.
The Iranian intelligence forces have arrested three members of a terrorist group in Iran’s southwestern Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province who were planning an act of sabotage in the country, according to news outlets.
An official with the Medical Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran has rejected unconfirmed reports that a female doctor, Parisa Bahmani, was shot and killed by security agents during a protest gathering in front of the organization headquarters in Tehran.
Thousands of people in Mashhad have held a vigil for the victims of the Wednesday terrorist attack by Daesh that killed 13 people at a Muslim site in south-central Iran.
A top Iranian military commander says the United States, the Israeli regime and Saudi Arabia are behind the recent conspiracies in Iran, reiterating that the Islamic Republic “will take revenge for all the riots and acts of terror in the country.”
A funeral procession has been held in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz for victims of a recent terror attack on a local holy shrine. Thousands of mourners turned out for the funeral service on Saturday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a phone call with his Iraqi opposite number Fuad Hussain, congratulated him on his re-election to the post.
