Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that the country’s former first vice president has been taken to prison to serve a jail term for corruption. Mohammad Reza Rahimi was taken by police officers from his home in Tehran and transferred to the Evin Prison on February 15, IRNA said. Rahimi was convicted by Iran’s […]
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MPs seek names of bribe-takers in previous Parliament
A number of Iranian MPs have called on the heads of Parliament and the judiciary to publish the list of representatives in the eighth Iranian Parliament who received bribes from Mohammadreza Rahimi, the former vice president who has now been convicted of corruption. ILNA said 22 MPs have delivered a letter to Ali Larijani, […]