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The brother of Iranian President Hassan Rohani's brother has been sentenced to prison by a court following his trial on charges of corruption.
Iranian police have detained dozens of labor activists and at least two journalists as they violently dispersed a May Day demonstration in central Tehran, reports say.
Saudi Arabia says its coast guard has rescued a distressed Iranian oil tanker off the Red Sea port of Jiddah, raising concerns that the ship's cargo could be leaking.
Jailed Iranian human rights defender Narges Mohammadi is in urgent need of surgery, her attorney said on April 28.
The Iranian army's chief of staff says Tehran could close the vital Strait of Hormuz if "hostilities reach a level where this cannot be avoided."
The streets of Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan, were flooded after severe rains that began on April 13. Weeks of heavy downpours have taken a toll on the region, causing deaths and extensive damage from flooding in Iran and Afghanistan.
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.
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