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Moscow, Tehran move forward with plans for Iranian-designed drone facility
Updated : 9 hours, 33 min ago IST
As part of their emerging military alliance, the officials said, a high-level Iranian delegation flew to Russia in early January to visit the planned site for the factory and hammer out details to get the project up-and-running, according to WSJ.
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi released on bail after hunger strike
Updated : 2 days, 19 hours ago IST
Panahi was arrested last July and later ordered to serve six years on charges of propagandizing against the government, a sentence dating back to 2011 that had never been enforced.
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Filmaker Jafar Panahi goes on hunger strike for being held captive even af
Updated : 3 days, 18 hours ago IST
Noted filmmaker Jafar Panahi has gone on a hunger strike for being held in Tehran's Evin prison, even though Iran's Supreme Court has overturned the conviction leading to the director's detention, reported Variety.
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Azerbaijani Embassy staff, family members evacuated from Iran after terror
Updated : 1 week ago IST
"After a deadly terrorist attack against #Azerbaijan's Embassy in Tehran, the Embassy staff & their family members have been evacuated from #Iran. They've just arrived in Baku," according to a tweet by Nasimi Aghayev, the ambassador of Azerbaijan to Germany.
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Iran worried over China's recent embrace of Saudi Arabia
Updated : 1 week ago IST
Xi Jinping's recent visit to Saudi Arabia caused a shock for Iran. It has left Tehran wondering whether China is changing its priorities in the region, especially in the aftermath of declining American presence.
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Iranian govt increases oil sales to China despite economic sanctions
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
According to VOA, Iran does not publish statistics about its oil sales, but analysts say Tehran has increased oil exports to more than 1.2 million barrels per day over the past three months.
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Drones attack military plant in Iran's Isfahan
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
"An explosion has occurred in one of the military centres affiliated to the Ministry of Defense," the deputy head of security for Isfahan Governorate Mohammad Reza Jan-Nesari told the semi-official Fars News Agency, according to CNN.
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Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi anxiously awaits Iranian court's decision o
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Now that the judgement that led to Jafar Panahi's imprisonment last year has been overturned by Iran's highest court, a decision on his release from Tehran's Evin prison is expected soon.
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Earthquake of magnitude 5.9 strikes Iran, kills 2
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on the Richter scale hit the city of Khoy in Iran on Saturday, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) reported.
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Iran feels it has been ditched by China: Report
Updated : 2 weeks, 6 days ago IST
Tehran is also worried about China's recent embrace of Saudi Arabia and other GCC nations as Iran believed that China had taken a neutral stand in Iran's rivalry with Saudi Arabia in the Gulf region.
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Year-ender 2022: How a 'custodial death' took women to war against Iran's
Updated : 1 month, 1 week ago IST
The alleged custodial death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, who had come visiting her brother in Tehran on September 13, 2022, fell in the crosshairs of the country's so-called morality police instead. She was arrested, allegedly for wearing her hijab (headscarf) loosely, at the po
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Chinese President Xi Jinping demonstrates preference for Saudi Arabia over
Updated : 1 month, 2 weeks ago IST
Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Chinese ambassador to Tehran over joint statement and expressed displeasure.
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