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Airplane crashes on takeoff in Iran, killing 39
At least 39 people were killed and nine injured Sunday when a passenger plane taking off from Iran's capital of Tehran crashed. The Iran-140 Sepahan Airlines jet crashed in a residential area when its engine shut down shortly after takeoff from Tehran's Mehrabad airport at 9:45 a.m. local time, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported. The aircraft was en route to the eastern city of Tabas.
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Iran Says It Is Arming Kurdistan To Help Fight Islamic State
Iran has supplied Kurdistan’s security forces, called the Peshmerga, with weapons to aid in their fight against Islamic State militants, Kurdistan President Massoud Barzani said Tuesday, according to Reuters. Iran’s direct military support for Kurdistan exemplifies the increasingly complicated political situation in Iraq, where the U.S. and Iran each has lent a hand in fighting the militant group formerly known as ISIS in northern Iraq.
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Inside modern Iran, where porn and prostitution are rampant
To live in Tehran, writes British-Iranian journalist Ramita Navai in this collection of true stories, requires one essential skill: lying. “Morals don’t come into it,” Navai writes. “Lying in Tehran is about survival . . . when the truth is shared in Tehran, it is an act of extreme trust or absolute desperation.”
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For many Iranians, the ‘evidence’ is clear: ISIS is an American invention
Iranians are as obsessed as Americans these days with the black-clad gangs roaming Iraq and Syria and killing Shiites and other "infidels" in the name of Sunni Islam. At the supermarket, in a shared taxi or at a family gathering, conversations often turn to the mysterious group, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and how it came to be.
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Iranian blogger found guilty of insulting Prophet Mohammad on Facebook sentenced to death
A blogger in ‘poor psychological condition’ has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammad on Facebook.
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Iran executes man for heresy
Mohsen Amir-Aslani convicted of insulting prophet Jonah and making ‘innovations in religion’ through interpretations of Qur’an
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Sister of murdered Iranian nuclear scientist blames Revolutionary Guards - not Israel
Ardeshir Hosseinpour was assassinated in 2007 because he would not help Iran develop atomic weapons, his sibling tells Western media source.
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Iran blocks Instagram account of ‘rich kids’ showing off wealth in Tehran
The richkidsoftehran group flaunts lifestyle of young Iranian elite, featuring sports cars, luxury goods and expensive homes
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Acid Attacks on Women Spread Terror in Iran
Zealots on motorcycles are throwing acid at women whose veils are deemed too loose in the ancient city of Isfahan. Are they defying the law, or enforcing it?
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Boeing sells first parts to Iran since 1979
National carrier Iran Air receives parts, ending a 35-year break in business prohibited under decades of US sanctions.
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Own a dog in Iran? That will be 74 lashes
For people around the world, owning a dog comes as a rite of passage. However in Iran, lawmakers are trying to pass a new bill that would harshly punish anyone who buys, sells or walks a dog in public with either a fine ranging from 10 to 100 million rials (NIS 142 to NIS 14,177) or 74 lashes, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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Hezbollah blames Israel for death of five nuclear technicians in Syria
The deaths of five nuclear scientists on Sunday in an ambush outside Damascus has raised anew suspicions that Israel is conducting an assassination campaign intended to blunt Iran's nuclear ambitions. At least one of the men was an Iranian nuclear technician, according to Syrian state television, members of the internal security wing of Lebanon's Hezbollah militi
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Pentagon claims Iran's copy of captured US Sentinel drone 'inferior' to original
Iran’s copy of a US drone aircraft captured in 2011 is inferior to the American original, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, as it downplayed claims from Tehran this week that the replica had taken its first flight. Asked about the Iranian replica, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren quipped: “Replica being the operative word there.”
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Nuclear talks: Iran says 'no new ideas' on table
Iran's foreign minister has said he heard "no new ideas" as talks on Tehran's nuclear programme stretched into the evening in Vienna.
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No sign of pardon for Iran blogger sentenced to death
On Dec. 1, the deputy head of Iran’s judiciary, Gholam Ali Mohseni Ejei, responded to a reporter’s question about Soheil Arabi, who was sentenced to death for Facebook posts deemed insulting to the Prophet Muhammad. Ejei said, “Currently, there is no pardon, and he’s been convicted of ‘corruption on Earth,’ but there has been a request for his case to be reviewed again.”
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Iran moves forward with death penalty over Facebook posts
A 30-year-old blogger and photographer has been sentenced to death in Iran for "insulting the prophet of Islam" on Facebook, drawing renewed attention to the country's notorious human rights record. The man, Soheil Arabi, was convicted in a Tehran criminal court in August after admitting to posting the defamatory content. His lawyers argued that he had done so while "in poor psychological condition," according to the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran...
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Iran executes young Iranian Kurd despite global outcry
Iran on Thursday executed an Iranian Kurd arrested at the age of 17 for belonging to the rebel Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) and involvement in armed confrontations with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards despite calls for leniency.
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Leaked cables show Netanyahu’s Iran bomb claim contradicted by Mossad
Gulf between Israeli secret service and PM revealed in documents shared with the Guardian along with other secrets including CIA bids to contact Hamas
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Iran cleric vows to 'raise flag of Islam on White House' to avenge Israeli attack
A senior Iranian cleric with close ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Friday that "we will raise the flag of Islam over the White House" in response to the killing of Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guards operatives on the Golan Heights last month. According to foreign media, Israeli attack helicopters killed six Hezbollah terrorists along with six Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) operatives, including a high-ranking general.
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How the Senate Republicans’ Letter Gave Iran a Boost in Nuclear Talks
The 47 Republican senators who wrote to Iranian leaders this month may have believed they were sabotaging the talks on a deal on Iranian nuclear program, hoping it would exacerbate fears in Tehran that any such deal could be reversed by the next U.S. president.
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