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Floods caused by heavy rain across Iran have killed 76 people and caused more than $2.2 billion in damage over the past several weeks, officials say.
An Iranian woman who inspired antihijab protests by removing her obligatory Islamic head scarf in a public gesture of defiance says has been sentenced to one year in prison but pardoned by the supreme leader, her lawyer says.
Iranian authorities have ordered the evacuation of more towns and villages threatened by floods in the country's southwest.
Iranian officials have responded angrily to U.S. media reports that the United States will soon designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization.
Iranians affected by the county's worst floods in a decade have been staging angry demonstrations against what they say is an inadequate relief response by the government.
Heavy flooding in western and southwestern Iran that has killed dozens and forced thousands from their homes in recent weeks has resulted in strong criticism of the government's relief response to the crisis.
Major flash floods that began last week in Iran intensified on March 25 and 26, reportedly killing at least 37 people. Amateur videos sent to RFE/RL's Radio Farda from Shiraz and Golestan Province show inundated streets and cars being swept away.
An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, officials say.
A senior U.S. diplomat has told President Hassan Rohani that he should give Iranians jobs and employment instead of urging them to curse the United States for their country's deteriorating economic situation.
Iran's newly appointed head of the judiciary, a controversial hard-line cleric accused of gross human rights violations, has been elected as deputy chief of the body that names and oversees the work of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, local media report.
A verdict has been issued in the court case of a U.S. Navy veteran arrested in Iran last year on security and other charges, a prosecutor was quoted as saying.
Iranian police have arrested a couple for "outraging public decency" after they got engaged in front of a crowd at a shopping mall.
Dozens of teachers staged sit-ins in schools across Iran for the third consecutive day to protest against low salaries and the jailing of teachers rights activists.
Prosecutors in Iran have filed a complaint against the minister of communications and information technology for alleged "Internet espionage," state media report.
According to Iranian state media, President Hassan Rohani has inaugurated a new domestically built submarine armed with cruise missiles, amid heightened tensions with the United States.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says a meeting on the Middle East in Warsaw was "historic" because it brought Israelis and Arabs together to talk about the threat posed by Iran. He spoke on February 14 at the meeting in Poland in an interview with Niusha Boghrati of RFE/RL's Radio Farda.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has rejected as "outrageous" Iranian claims that the United States and its regional allies are to blame for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says claims by the Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif that the United States was behind a bombing in Iran are “outrageous.” In an interview with RFE/RL, he denied U.S. involvement in the attack that killed 27 Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps members.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has blamed the United States and its regional allies for a suicide bombing in southeastern Iran that killed 27 members of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Rudy Giuliani, a personal lawyer of U.S. President Donald Trump, said: “I believe there has to be an overthrow of this regime.” In an interview with RFE/RL ‘s Persian-language service Radio Farda Giuliani said he was speaking in his personal capacity. (RFE/RL's Radio Farda)
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