Enraged farmers invaded a Friday Prayer ceremony in the city of Isfahan and, as a sign of anger, turned their backs on the prayer leader.
Hopes of freeing Iran’s Green Movement leaders from house arrest before the Iranian new year beginning March 21 have been dashed, deputy parliament speaker Ali Motahari said on March 16.
On March 16, 1988 the Iran-Iraq War was already going on for eight years. According to eyewitness around eleven o'clock Iraqi Migs and Mirage jet fighters started bombing the city of Halabja in Northern Iraq.
The chairman of Tehran City Council and a council member have confirmed receiving the resignation letter of reformist Mayor Mohammad-Ali Najafi amid conflicting reports of his decision to step down.
Statistics concerning the number of dilapidated trucks still on Iranian roads vary between 127,000 and 202,000.
Iranians heartily celebrated Chahar-shanbe Suri, a pre-Islamic feast on March 13, although authorities would prefer it did not exist.
Iranian Parliament (Majles) has reinstated Roads-Transportation, and Labor ministers after a day-long impeachment session on Tuesday March 13.
While Iran’s senior judiciary authorities have called for a swift and “out of turn” trial for the Gonabadi dervishes, the top judge says he is against “hasty investigations.”
Iran’s hardline prosecutor-general Mohammad Jafar Montazeri has warned that the country’s Judiciary will take “legal action” against the supporters of Ayatollah Sadeq Shirazi.
Three Iranian students who were detained during the widespread protests earlier this year have been sentenced to nine years in prison by the Revolutionary Courts.
In recent months, Iran has been beset by economic problems despite the promises surrounding the 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers.
A member of the board of directors of the Teacher’s Trade Association of Tehran was battered and violently detained on Saturday, March 3, his wife has disclosed in an interview with Radio Farda.
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