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Top Iranian Cleric Resigns Amid Land Grab Allegations
OCCRP
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August 4, 2025
A senior Iranian imam has resigned his interim role leading Tehran’s Friday Prayers, just months after his son and daughter-in-law were arrested on financial corruption charges. Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi had faced mounting pressure to resign...
ZEE5 Global Unveils Tehran: John Abraham Leads Explosive Spy Thriller Premiering This Independence Day
News India Times
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August 4, 2025
Photo Credit : ZEE5 Global Global | 1st August 2025 – ZEE5 Global, the world’s leading streaming platform for South Asian content available across 190+ countries, announced the premiere of Maddock Films’ latest offering Tehran—a taut geo-political...
The Sword and the Shield: Why Iran Still Chooses Death Over Defense
Jewish Post and News
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August 4, 2025
The Iranian flag is seen flying over a street in Tehran, Iran, Feb. 3, 2023. Photo: Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS When Iran became the Islamic Republic in 1979, one of its first acts was to redesign the national flag....
John Abraham expresses disappointment over Tehran skipping theatrical release
OTTplay
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John Abraham's geopolitical action thriller Tehran has officially skipped theatrical release and is all set to land directly on ZEE5 via OTTplay Premium on August 14. The trailer for the film looks promising, leading fans to demand a theatrical...
Wizunwangbo Irangguang is crowned Mr Dimapur 2025
The Morung Express
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Mr Dimapur 2025 Wizunwangbo Irangguang (center) with Imnamoa Ozukum and Paurangbe. Dimapur, August 4 (MExN): In a dazzling celebration of charisma, culture, and confidence, Wizunwangbo Irangguang was crowned Mr Dimapur 2025 at the grand finale...
New OTT Releases This Week: List of series and movies on Netflix, JioHotstar, Prime Video and SonyLIV
Newsd
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August 4, 2025
New OTT Releases This Week:August’s second week is coming in hot for OTT suckers. Seriously, it’s like the streamers all got together and decided, to drop everything so no one can get sleep. Doesn’t matter if you’re a “just one episode” or a...
Seljuk, Ilkhanid oil lamps transferred to National Museum of Iran
Tehran Times
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August 4, 2025
TEHRAN--According to an official in charge of the dossier for the UNESCO registration of Masuleh Cultural Landscape, two metal oil lamps from the Seljuk (11th–12th centuries) and Ilkhanid (13th–14th centuries) periods, discovered in Masuleh, have...
Iranian Foreign Ministry: Rumors of Embassy Closures in Tehran Are Zionist Psychological Warfare
Yemen News Agency SABA
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August 2, 2025
Iranian Foreign Ministry: Rumors of Embassy Closures in Tehran Are Zionist Psychological Warfare [Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:46:24 +0300] Tehran – Saba: Iran's Foreign Ministry stated Saturday that rumors about embassies closing in Tehran constitute...
Dirty Linen Night 2025, the French Quarter’s slightly unkempt art block party, is coming up
Nola - Louisiana
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Dirty Linen Night is a sultry mid-summer street party in the 300 to 1100 blocks of Royal Street, where thousands of attendees stroll dozens of art galleries and shops, having a slightly less refined time than they did at the big White Linen Night...
Iran issues new civil defense shelter directive amid warnings of renewed war
Iran International
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August 2, 2025
“The new directive defines the responsibilities of executive bodies in building and managing shelters and emergency housing,” said Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, who chairs Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff. The announcement follows a report...
Will Iran Get the Bomb?
Royal United Services Institute
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August 3, 2025
More than a month after the Israeli and US attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities and scientists, the full extent of the damage to the Iranian nuclear programme remains unclear. Intelligence assessments vary. Despite the Trump White House’s...
Iraq, 2nd destination of Iranian non-oil products
Tehran Times
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August 4, 2025
TEHRAN- Iraq has been the second top destination of Iranian non-oil products during the first four months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 21-July 22), according to data released by the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration...
The Snapback Mechanism Increases Likelihood of Global Consensus Against Iran’s Regime
Iran Focus
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August 4, 2025
The state-run daily Farhikhtegan, in an article about escalating tensions, warned of the possibility of military conflict and the formation of global consensus against Iran’s regime if the European countries potentially activate the so-called...
Pakistan, Iran sign 12 cooperation mechanisms
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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August 4, 2025
At a press briefing in Islamabad with Pezeshkian, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif affirmed that both nations signed agreements including cooperation in plant protection and plant quarantine, joint use of the Mirjaveh-Taftan border gate,...
No intl. body will be given access to Iran nuclear sites: MP
Mehr News Agency
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August 4, 2025
Chairman of Iranian Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Azizi denied media speculations about the resumption of inspection of Iran’s nuclear sites by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). He stated that an...
National identity reborn; how Iran’s Gen Z tipped the scales of war
Al Mayadeen
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August 4, 2025
Once dismissed as disconnected and apathetic, Iran’s Gen Z has emerged as a powerful force of national identity following Israeli strikes on Tehran. Their transformation, from digital dissent to vocal defense of their homeland, shattered years of...
Iran, Iraq agree to settle disputes on gas delivery volumes, arrears
Press TV
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Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement to soon settle their disputes regarding the amount of natural gas delivered by Iran to Iraq and the arrears the Arab country owes to Iran for previous deliveries. Iran’s Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said on...
Silenced in France: The unjust detention of a pro-Palestine Iranian activist
Press TV
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Mahdieh Esfandiari, an Iranian academic living in France for the last eight years, has been unjustly detained for condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza on social media. Arrested without clear charges or consular access, her case highlights France’s...
Tehran Shuts Public Toilets Amid Worsening Water Crisis
Sada Elbalad
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August 2, 2025
Sat 02 Aug 2025 | 09:00 PM Authorities in Tehran have closed many public toilets across the city as part of emergency government measures to address Iran’s deepening water crisis, according to local media reports. The closure, which includes...
Iranian president arrives in Islamabad to boost cooperation, trade ties
Pakistan Today
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August 2, 2025
PM Shehbaz Sharif, top ministers welcome Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian after he landed at Nur Khan Air Base Premier says looking forward to ‘substantive engagements during this important visit that will pave way forward for stronger...