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Iranian mourners gather around the coffins of Revolutionary Guards who were killed in a suicide attack, during their funeral in southeastern city of Isfahan on February 16, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
February 16, 2019, 7:17 pm
Iranians cry ‘revenge’ at funeral of suicide bomb victims
Iranian general blames Pakistan for the targeted attack on Revolutionary Guards in a volatile province bordering both countries
By AFP
A group of protesters chant slogans at the old grand bazaar in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 25, 2018. Protesters in the Iranian capital swarmed its historic Grand Bazaar on Monday, news agencies reported, and forced shopkeepers to close their stalls in apparent anger over the Islamic Republic's troubled economy, months after similar demonstrations rocked the country. (Iranian Labor News Agency via AP)
August 4, 2018, 12:47 pm
Iranian protesters blame their government, not US, for failing economy
Religious school attacked near Tehran as opponents slam regime; rial has slipped to record lows ahead of sanctions restarting Monday after Washington pulled out of nuke deal
By TOI staff and Agencies
In this Tuesday, July 10, 2018 photo, the Zayandeh Roud river no longer runs under the 400-year-old Si-o-seh Pol bridge, named for its 33 arches, in Isfahan, Iran. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
July 22, 2018, 9:35 am
With rivers dry and fields dust, Iranian farmers turn to protest
Amid general unrest over economic woes, demonstrations have grown against perceived government mismanagement of drought
By Nasser Karimi and MOHAMMED NASIRI
Illustrative image of dance party. (Anna_Om/iStock via Getty images)
August 9, 2017, 4:44 pm
Iran detains 64 ‘half-naked’ youths at pool party
Youngsters were dancing and drinking alcohol at event in Isfahan and sharing video on social media to ‘encourage decadence’
By AP
Illustrative photo of passengers on an Iranian train. (CC-BY: Franco Pecchio/Wikimedia)
July 12, 2017, 6:42 pm
Iran looks to build high-speed rail links with Italian firm
$1.36 billion deal will see lines laid down from Qom and Arak to Tehran and Isfahan
By AP
Demonstrators protest President Donald Trump's executive immigration ban, at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, January 29, 2017. (AFP/Joshua LOTT)
January 30, 2017, 10:13 pm
US ban forces Iranians home after days at Vienna airport
Elderly couple and an unrelated middle-aged woman held out hope they would be able to complete trips to visit family in US
By AFP
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani delivers a speech in Tehran, June 3, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/ATTA KENARE)
February 5, 2015, 7:01 pm
Rouhani slams ‘criminal’ Israel, says Iran doesn’t need nukes
President says the bomb has not made Western countries safer; calls Israel a ‘usurper’
By Lazar Berman
An Iranian man wearing a mask to protect himself from pollution rides his motorcycle on the pavement in downtown Tehran on December 30, 2014. (Behrouz Mehri/AFP)
December 31, 2014, 5:40 am
Tehran air pollution puts nearly 400 in hospital
Iran’s capital is one the world’s most polluted cities, and winter exacerbates the situation
By AFP
Iranian women protest in front of the Isfahan judiciary on October 22, 2014, in solidarity with women injured in a series of acid attacks. (photo credit: AFP/ISNA/Arya Jafari)
October 31, 2014, 7:54 am
West blamed for acid attacks on Iranian women
Tehran’s former intelligence minister says British spies are behind string of brutal assaults in Isfahan
By Tamar Pileggi
Hassan Rouhani on Iranian state TV in May 2013 (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)
October 6, 2013, 12:58 pm
Rouhani, on Iranian TV in May, detailed how he broke nuclear pledge
Candidate’s interview from just before his election gets fresh attention as West seeks to judge Iran’s credibility ahead of new negotiations
By TOI staff
Iranians attending a funeral for a religious leader protest against the country's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, June 4, 2013. (screen capture: BBC News)
June 5, 2013, 12:52 pm
Thousands of Iranians chant to end dictatorship
At funeral for opponent of Tehran regime, mourners voice rare dissent to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
By Stuart Winer
Daniel Mahgerefteh, an Iranian Jew who was murdered in Tehran in December 2012, reportedly after he 'dishonored' the family of a member of Iran's Revolutionary Guard by refusing to marry his daughter (photo credit: Channel 2 screen capture)
January 3, 2013, 1:17 am
Daughter of Iranian soldier said involved in December murder of Tehran Jew
Iran’s Jews fearful following murder of Daniel Mahgerefteh, the second member of the community killed in as many months
By Greg Tepper and Ilan Ben Zion
Iran's 600-year-old Isfahan Synagogue (photo credit: Hamed Saber/CC-BY)
November 28, 2012, 8:54 pm
Jewish woman brutally murdered in Iran over property dispute
Neighboring mosque expropriated part of Tuba N.’s house in Isfahan, and she was killed for taking the case to court, Times of Israel told
By Ilan Ben Zion
The Allenby border crossing in the Jordan Valley (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
August 5, 2012, 2:39 pm
Israel bars five foreign ministers from conference in Ramallah on Sunday
Delegations from Cuba, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Malaysia and Algeria blocked from West Bank meeting
By Raphael Ahren
Molok Shamshiri, an Iranian-Israeli restaurant cook, left Iran in 1964. (Ben Lynfield)
April 16, 2012, 11:27 pm
With fond memories of native land, Iranian Israelis worried by talk of war
‘The Iranian people don’t want war,’ says Molok Shamshiri. ‘But if Ahmadinejad has a bomb, he’ll use it,’ says Avi Nobel
By Ben Lynfield
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