The representatives in Iranian Parliament for Eastern and Western Azerbaijan Provinces have criticized the government’s management of the earthquake emergency in northeastern Iran, while the Minister of Health announced that the number of fatalities from the two quakes that hit the country on Saturday has now reached 306.
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Life Never Stops In Azarbaijan; A Baby Boy is Born In “Varazghan”
According to media, an Iranian woman in the village of “Varazghan” in east Azarbaijan which was hit by recent earthquake, has given birth to a baby boy. Life never stops in Iran though entire Iranian are going through the one of the most dark periods in their history. Voice of Freedom
Two earthquakes in Iran kill more than 300 and injure 5,000
Overcrowded hospitals in northwest Iran struggled to cope with thousands of earthquake victims on Sunday as rescuers raced to reach remote villages after two powerful quakes killed nearly 300 people.
Two quakes in Iran kill 180 and injure 1,500
Two powerful earthquakes killed 180 people and injured about 1,500 in northwest Iran where rescuers frantically combed the rubble of dozens of villages through the night into Sunday.
Sanctions on Iran: ‘ordinary people are the target’
Iranian civilians bear the brunt of western-imposed sanctions in terms of medicine and food shortages, and money problems.
In Their Own Words: Human Rights Violations against Iran’s Kurdish Minority
The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran routinely violates domestic and international law in the course of arresting, interrogating, and prosecuting Kurdish civil and political activists.
Iran wins 3 Greco-Roman gold medals in 3 days
Iran broke its Greco-Roman gold medal drought by winning three of them in three days. Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei won the Olympic gold medal Tuesday in 96-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling, beating Russia’s Rustam Totrov 2-0, 1-0.
Iran Taking State Infrastructure Offline Next Month
There was talk a few months ago of Iran wanting to create its own Internet, free of Western influence and open communication. It would be a severe blow to the efforts of citizens who relied on an Internet connection to the outside world during the massive protests that rocked the country in 2011. […]
Top aide to Iran supreme leader in Syria to meet Assad
Saeed Jalili, a top aide to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, arrived in Damascus on a surprise visit on Tuesday for talks with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian state television reported.
A new wave of Detention in Iran
A Weekly Report on Human Rights Violations in Iran from July 22 to 29, 2012 The Iranian government has increased the number of arrests and punishments in order to contain dissent by the suffering Iranian population.