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Lauded Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76

Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has died at the age of 76 in the French capital, Paris.

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Iran: Mixed reactions to Brexit

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Tehran says it has foiled a huge ISIL bombing campaign

Iranian authorities say ISIL has been hatching "plots and conspiracies" against it from its de facto capital of Raqqa in Syria.

Iran

Iran to buy Boeing airliners

Iran has agreed a deal to buy 100 planes from US planemaker Boeing, according to the head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation.

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Cult

East meets West in music by Iranian soprano Darya Dadvar

Darya Dadvar is one of Iran’s most accomplished sopranos.

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Iran mulls moving its weekends closer to Saturday and Sunday

Iran is considering moving its weekend closer to the Western one.

Business Series

Iranair could buy Boeing planes but any deal faces hurdles

Iran's state airline is talking with US plane maker Boeing about buying a large number of aircraft, but there are still many obstacles to a deal, as with Iranair's order for Airbus jets.

Business Line

How to beat the economic low growth trap and Iran's data directive

Business Line explores the OECD's warning that the global economy is in a 'low growth trap' and Tehran wants foreign social media to move its citizens' data onto servers inside Iran.

Iran

Iran swears in its tenth parliament

Independent counting suggests this will be the first parliament in more than 20 years with neither a conservative nor reformist majority.

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Iran appoints hardliner Ahmad Jannati to lead powerful assembly

Ahmad Jannati has been chosen to lead Iran’s new assembly of experts, the body which oversees the work of the country’s supreme leader and will elect his…

Cinema

'Inversion' a film that reflects life in Iran

Iran presented two films at Cannes this year 'The Salesman' by Asghar Farhardi in competition for the Palme d'Or and 'Inversion' by Behnam Behzadi in Un Certain Regard.

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Iran arrests female models for posing without hijabs

Iran has arrested fashion models active on social media sites after Tehran’s top leader declared war on un-Islamic thoughts on the internet. Eight

Iran

Blame game: Iranians to miss out on hajj

Iranians will not be able to travel to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site this year as the two countries fail to agree to organisation and accuse each other of being at fault.

Economy

Kerry tries to reassure nervous European banks on trade with Iran

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said European banks have nothing to fear from resuming business with Iran now that some sanctions have been lifted.

Business Series

Iran's rose growers scent post sanction export opportunities

Iran's rose growers are hoping that after years of sanctions the world's perfume makers will be back to buy rose water as purchases were previously blocked by banking restrictions.

Iran

British man pleads for release of wife and daughter being held in Iran

When he was on his way to pick up his wife at the airport in London, he received a phone call from Tehran. A phone call which was the first step in Nazanin's story.

World News

Iran bans female MP for 'handshake with an unrelated man'

Iran's conservative factions have launched a broadside against the county's reformists following their recent electoral success.

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Iran election: 'Victory' for allies of reformist Rouhani

Moderate and centrist allies of Iran’s reformist President Hassan Rouhani have won the second round of parliamentary elections, taking more than 30

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Iran votes in second round of parliamentary elections

Voters in Iran voted in a second round of parliamentary elections on Friday (April 29). There are 68 remaining seats to fill. The remaining seats

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Six year prison sentence for visiting Iran

French-Iranian woman sentenced after returning to comfort her sick mother