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Hijab crackdown: Iran executes rapper

Iran has executed a 23-year-old rapper for protesting against the custodial killing of a 22-year-old woman. Mohsen Shekari was convicted and sentenced to death for blocking a street and wounding a paramilitary

Hijab crackdown: Iran sentences protestor to death; hands out jail term to 5 others

Tightening noose, Iran’s Revolutionary Court sentenced an anti-government protester to death and handed down jail terms to five others for holding anti-hijab protests in the country This marks the first death sentence

Hijab crackdown: Anger in Iran after video of police sexually harassing woman protestor goes viral

A fresh wave of anger has gripped Iran after a video of police sexually harassing a woman protester surfaced on social media. In a video posted by BBC Persian, a member of

COVID19: ‘1 Iranian dies every 10 minutes, 50 infected every hour’

Jahanpour also urged people to spend Nowruz, the country’s New Year celebrations, at home this year. Tehran, Mar 19: Iran’s Health Ministry has estimated that the coronavirus disease, COVID-19, is claiming a

March 19, 2020

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4th batch of 53 Indians evacuated from Iran: Jaishankar

A fourth batch of 53 Indians returned to India from Iran on Monday, taking the total number of people evacuated from the coronavirus-hit country to 389. This comes a day after over

March 16, 2020

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Covid-19: 234 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran reach India

More than 200 Indians, including students and pilgrims stranded in coronavirus-hit Iran, reached India early on Sunday, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said. Jaishankar thanked Iranian authorities for helping India in the

March 15, 2020

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COVID19: Indian students in Iran gaze skyward for flight home

“It is very hard for every student as the conditions are very challenging but I would mention that the authorities in the hospitals and the Ministry of Health has been very very

March 14, 2020

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‘Initial focus to bring back Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran’

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday said the initial focus is to bring back Indian pilgrims stranded in Iran, which is grappling with cases of coronavirus. The outbreak of coronavirus is

March 12, 2020

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Govt focusing on bringing back Indians from coronavirus-hit Italy, Iran: Jaishankar

New Delhi: The government is focusing on bringing back Indians stranded in coronavirus-hit Italy and Iran after screening them, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday. He said

March 11, 2020

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Keeping pace with pilgrims who visited Iran, major concern in Ladakh, J&K

Srinagar, Mar 11: Keeping pace with the number of locals coming home after pilgrimage to holy Shia Muslim shrines in Iran is a major issue involving prevention of the dreaded coronavirus in

March 11, 2020

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Golden Bear winner Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to jail in Iran

Mohammad Rasoulof, the Iranian director who won the the top award at last month’s Berlin film festival, has been ordered to serve a one-year prison sentence over his movies, his lawyer has

March 10, 2020

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IAF aircraft evacuates 58 Indians from coronavirus-hit Iran

An Indian Air Force (IAF) transport aircraft on Tuesday brought back 58 Indians from Iran where 237 people have died of coronavirus so far, PTI reported. The C-17 Globemaster, the largest military

March 10, 2020

VIDEO| Jaishankar meets families of Kashmiris stranded in Iran

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar arrived on a visit to Kashmir on Monday and met the relatives of those people, including students, who are stranded in Iran, officials said. They said the

March 9, 2020

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