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Daughter Of Ex Iran President Released After 2 Years In Jail: Report
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on Wednesday after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.
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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner To Face Additional 1 Year Jail Term
An Iranian court has sentenced 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional sentence of over one year in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic while behind bars, her family said on Monday.
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2 Iranian Journalists Behind Bars For Covering Mahsa Amini's Death Freed: Report
Iranian authorities on Sunday freed two journalists who spent more than a year behind bars for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked months-long nationwide protests, local media said.
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Mahsa Amini's Family Barred From Leaving Iran For European Union Rights Award
The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously, their lawyer said Saturday.
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Meta's Oversight Body Allows Post Calling For Death Of Iran's Supreme Leader
Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticize the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule barring violent threats.
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Iran Filmmaker Barred From India Travel, "Passport Was Taken Away": Report
Iranian authorities have barred filmmaker Reza Dormishian from visiting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, where 'A Minor,' a movie he produced, was scheduled to play in the competition.
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"Serious Risk Of Torture And Death": Iran Protest Prisoners Sound Alarm
Iranian campaigners arrested in a crackdown over protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini are at risk of being tortured or even dying behind bars, rights groups warn.
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Trump Takes Steps To Bar Some Iranian Officials From US
President Donald Trump on Wednesday gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants, the White House said in a proclamation.
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Banned At Home For Not Wearing Hijab, Chess Player, 19, Will Play For US
A leading Iranian chess player, barred from her homeland's team after refusing to wear a headscarf, will now compete as a player for the United States, the US Chess Federation said.
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Suspect In Kansas Bar Shooting Of Indians Apparently Thought They Were Iranians
Less than five hours after a man shot up a Kansas bar, killing one Indian man and injuring two others in an apparently racially motivated attack, an Applebee's bartender 70 miles away made a 911 call.
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Airlines Barring Iranians From US-Bound Flights
Foreign airlines are barring Iranians from travelling to the United States following President Donald Trump's temporary order barring visas for seven Muslim countries, travel agents in Tehran said Saturday.
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Iranians Protest Exclusion From Hajj
With Iranians barred from the annual hajj pilgrimage, thousands protested in Tehran on Friday and officials criticised Saudi Arabia's refusal to discuss last year's deadly stampede.
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Victims of 1983 Marine Base Bombing in Beirut Lose Quest for Iranian Assets
Relatives of US soldiers killed and wounded in a 1983 Beirut bombing have been barred by a US judge from seeking $1.6 billion in assets belonging to Iran's central bank and held by a unit of German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse.
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Iran's President barred from visiting prison
Iran's state prosecutor says he has denied permission to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit an imprisoned advisor, a further sign of the Iranian President's rapidly waning influence.
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Daughter Of Ex Iran President Released After 2 Years In Jail: Report
The daughter of former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani was released on Wednesday after two years behind bars in Tehran's Evin prison, media outlets in the Islamic republic reported.
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Jailed Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner To Face Additional 1 Year Jail Term
An Iranian court has sentenced 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi to an additional sentence of over one year in prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the Islamic republic while behind bars, her family said on Monday.
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2 Iranian Journalists Behind Bars For Covering Mahsa Amini's Death Freed: Report
Iranian authorities on Sunday freed two journalists who spent more than a year behind bars for covering the death of Mahsa Amini, which sparked months-long nationwide protests, local media said.
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Mahsa Amini's Family Barred From Leaving Iran For European Union Rights Award
The family of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in custody, have been banned from travelling to France to collect a top rights prize awarded posthumously, their lawyer said Saturday.
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Meta's Oversight Body Allows Post Calling For Death Of Iran's Supreme Leader
Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticize the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule barring violent threats.
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Iran Filmmaker Barred From India Travel, "Passport Was Taken Away": Report
Iranian authorities have barred filmmaker Reza Dormishian from visiting the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, where 'A Minor,' a movie he produced, was scheduled to play in the competition.
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"Serious Risk Of Torture And Death": Iran Protest Prisoners Sound Alarm
Iranian campaigners arrested in a crackdown over protests sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini are at risk of being tortured or even dying behind bars, rights groups warn.
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Trump Takes Steps To Bar Some Iranian Officials From US
President Donald Trump on Wednesday gave the State Department the authority to bar senior Iranian officials and their family members from entering the United States as immigrants or non-immigrants, the White House said in a proclamation.
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Banned At Home For Not Wearing Hijab, Chess Player, 19, Will Play For US
A leading Iranian chess player, barred from her homeland's team after refusing to wear a headscarf, will now compete as a player for the United States, the US Chess Federation said.
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Suspect In Kansas Bar Shooting Of Indians Apparently Thought They Were Iranians
Less than five hours after a man shot up a Kansas bar, killing one Indian man and injuring two others in an apparently racially motivated attack, an Applebee's bartender 70 miles away made a 911 call.
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Airlines Barring Iranians From US-Bound Flights
Foreign airlines are barring Iranians from travelling to the United States following President Donald Trump's temporary order barring visas for seven Muslim countries, travel agents in Tehran said Saturday.
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Iranians Protest Exclusion From Hajj
With Iranians barred from the annual hajj pilgrimage, thousands protested in Tehran on Friday and officials criticised Saudi Arabia's refusal to discuss last year's deadly stampede.
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Victims of 1983 Marine Base Bombing in Beirut Lose Quest for Iranian Assets
Relatives of US soldiers killed and wounded in a 1983 Beirut bombing have been barred by a US judge from seeking $1.6 billion in assets belonging to Iran's central bank and held by a unit of German exchange operator Deutsche Boerse.
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Iran's President barred from visiting prison
Iran's state prosecutor says he has denied permission to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit an imprisoned advisor, a further sign of the Iranian President's rapidly waning influence.
