IranFocus-BloombergAn Iran parliament committee has held several senior officials accountable for the biggest bank fraud in the country’s history, Tehran Times reported.
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Iran cracks down on satellite channel viewers in Khorasan Razavi Province
Islamic Republic of Iran Police News Center :http://news.police.ir/NCMS/FullStory/?Id=215996In the implementation of another stage of the Plan to Improve Social Security in Mashhad, 1,216 satellite receivers were rounded up.
Cyrus The Great
Cyrus Charter of Human Rights CylinderFirst Charter of Human Rights The charter of Cyrus the Great, a baked-clay Aryan language (Old Persian) cuneiform cylinder, was discovered in 1878 in excavation of the site of Babylon. In it, Cyrus the Great described his human treatment of the inhabitants of Babylonia after its conquest by the […]
Photos: Mud bathing in Lake Urmia – Iran
Lake Urmia (a Syriac name meaning city of water), is the third largest salt lake on earth located in northwestern Iran.
Iran’s Mourning Mothers of Park Laleh, Return to the Park
We ask all International Human Rights NGO’s, where in Mr. Ahmed Shaheed’s report, is the story of all the martyrs of the last 33 years and the mistreatment and degradation their mothers and supporters were subjected to?
Government to ‘immediately’ cut funding to dissident students abroad, says Iran minister
GVF — The Iranian government will cut funding to students studying abroad should they develop ties to the opposition Green Movement, the country’s Minister of Science, Research, and Technology said on Sunday.
Iran says UN cannot impose sanctions on its central bank
TEHRAN, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — Iran’s Central Bank Governor Mahmoud Bahmani said Monday that United Nations cannot impose sanctions on Iran’s Central Bank, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Use of VPNs criminalized in Iran
The use of VPNs (Virtual Private Networks) and proxies is a “crime,” Iran’s Minister of Communications and Technology has announced.
UN Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed has requested that Iranian officials cooperate and allow him to visit Iran
After presenting his first report for the UN regarding human rights issues in Iran, the Special Rapporteur Ahmed Shaheed requested that he be allowed to visit the country.
Iran central bank dismisses U.S. sanctions threat
By Robin PomeroyTEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran dismissed on Saturday a threat by Washington to impose sanctions on its central bank in response to an alleged assassination plot, saying the United Nations would block the plan and other central banks would not accept it.