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Most have fled with their husbands to join the murderous faction Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which is so vicious it has even been disowned by al-Qaeda Ten British women are among hundreds of UK jihadists fighting a brutal holy war on the blood-soaked battlefields of Syria.

Just received the following from the Iranian Mission to the UN lambasting US ambassador Samantha Power/the US for criticizing Tehran.

Iran's nuclear program has never had a military character, the adviser of the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Kazem Sadjadpour said.

Gasoline prices in Iran have risen steadily and dramatically in recent years, but at 22 cents per liter, they are still some of the cheapest in the world.

A Chinese delegation of investors, who are active in energy field, arrived in the region to study construction of a power plant, Iranian IRNA news agency reported on April 24. The Chinese delegation has met with the local officials and talked on the potential of energy supply and trade in the zone.

The Organization of Iranian-American Communities is disturbed by reports that political prisoners in Evin & Ghazal Hessar Prisons in Iran were attacked in a raid directed by Iranian Ministry of Intelligence during which agents savagely beat and tortured defenseless prisoners.

Narenji was Iran's top website for gadget news, edited daily by a team of tech bloggers who worked from a cramped office in the country's city of Kerman.

TEHRAN: Ninety-five percent of the Iranian population signed up to a cash handout program, dealing a blow to the government which wanted to spend the money elsewhere, a top official said Wednesday.

Tehran, Iran, April 23 By Milad Fashtami - Trend: Some 2 million fish are found dead in Tehran province's Fashafuyeh dam due to water pollution.

Almost a decade after Iran, India and Afghanistan agreed to develop a transit route connecting Afghanistan to Iran's newly developing Chabahar port, the project is finally set to take off.

Baku, Azerbaijan, April 23 By Umid Niayesh - Trend: Following the last week's violent incident against political prisoners in one of Iran's prisons, the head of the Iran's Prisons Organization was removed from his post.

Iran's official news agency says the official in charge of the country's prisons has been removed from the post.

Unknown gunmen, suspected of smuggling historical valuables, have killed four people , police commander of Iran's Ardabil province, Ibrahim Karimkhan said, the country's IRNA news agency reported on April 23. The incident occurred on April 22. The policemen stopped a suspicious car and subsequently the officers were fired upon, according to the ... (more)

The Supreme Audit Court of Iran confirmed that a subsidiary of the National Iranian Oil Company sold several crude oil and condensate freights worth about $1 billion to International Safe Oil Company in the second half of 2012.

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The Iranian regime hanged five prisoners including a 68 year-old man on Tuesday in Gohardasht prison in city of Karaj.

Wave of executions continues unabated in Iran. On Wednesday, December 11, Khamenei's henchmen group-hanged seven prisoners in Gohardasht prison.

The Iranian regime's judiciary chief Sadegh Amoli Larijani has said the regime 'does not care' for Western human rights and the international community should be grateful for the execution of drug smugglers.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, already under pressure from conservatives for his tentative opening to the West, was criticized on Tuesday for what his opponents called a "lavish ball" thrown by the first lady.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, already under pressure from conservatives for his tentative opening to the West, was criticised on Tuesday for what his opponents called a "lavish ball" thrown by the first lady.