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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.

The extreme anti-Zionist hareidi sect Neturei Karta praised Rabbi Yousef Hamadani Cohen, the former chief rabbi of Iran's tiny Jewish community who passed away three weeks ago .

A large number of the clerical regime's suppressive forces raided the ward 350 of notorious Evin Prison, savagely beating up and insulting the prisoners.

Hamid Aboutalebi looked like the ideal candidate to become Tehran's ambassador to the United Nations.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani , Chairman of Iran's Expediency Council, meets Abdul Rahman bin Qarman al-Shahri, the new Saudi Arabia's Ambassador to Tehran on Monday April 21, 2014.

TEHRAN The Iranian Navy's 29th Fleet has docked in the Omani port city of Muscat, the deputy commander of the Iranian Navy announced on Monday.

Deputy head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization , Behrouz Kamalvandi said that the protocol has been signed last month, Iranian IRIB news agency reported on April 22. He also went on to say that Iran is also negotiating with some European and Asian countries on building new nuclear power plants without unveiling any further details.

Iranian Ambassador to Ankara Alireza Bigdeli says the Islamic Republic of Iran and Turkey have set a target of nearly $16 billion in the volume of their bilateral trade transactions during the current Iranian calendar year , Press TV reported.