Criticizing proposed plans to increase Iran's population, the representative of Mahabad to the Majlis Iranian parliament, Jalal Mahmoudzadeh, says that young Iranians have no choice other than leaving the country in the absence of jobs.
Reza Zarrab, the Turkey-based ringleader of Iran’s sanctions-evasion network who laundered over $20 billion in the biggest sanctions-evasion scheme in recent history, continues to make headlines.
Following the resignation of Mohammad Yazdi from the powerful Guardian Council, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei replaced him with another member of the clergy, Ahmad Khatami, on Sunday.
As in previous decades, Iranian Baha'i citizens have been deprived of their right to higher education, says a survey on the latest universities' national entrance examinations.
The unconventional pronouncements of a Qom-based senior cleric, Kamal al-Haydari, about Shiite jurisprudence and jurists, have once again infuriated state-recognized "Ayatollahs" and traditional clergies close to the Iranian government.
The life story of a man who built his entire life and world on dancing in women's clothing is getting the cinematic treatment.
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has criticized French President Emmanuel Macron over his defense of the right to show cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Khamenei's tweets have also been criticized for questioning the Holocaust.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Wednesday that the U.S. sanctions imposed on the nation were taking their "last breaths."
Top officials in Iran say the upcoming U.S. election doesn't matter, but nearly everyone else there seems to be holding their breath.
The spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Health, Sima Sadat Lari, criticized the holding of a religious celebration in Iran's second-largest city, Mashhad, saying that having such a ceremony was "indeed a crime."
The head of the Iran-South Korea Chamber of Commerce, Hossein Tanhaei, has said that Iran's blocked money in South Korea amounts to "$8.5 billion" and the release of the money "depends on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election."
The covering up of images of women on gravestones in a cemetery in northern Iran resulted in outrage and led to the images being fixed and the cemetery apologizing for the “mistake.”
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