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Arash Karami

Arash Karami is a contributor to Al-Monitor.

The Paris office of Iran Air is draped with a black shroud, July 7, 1988, following the downing of an Iran Air A-300 Airbus with 290 passengers aboard in the Gulf on Sunday. The USS Vincennes mistakenly fired a missile at the civilian airliner. REUTERS/Phillipe Wojazer - RTR1Q8SV

Iran remembers US downing of passenger plane

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Iran's deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi leaves the Conference on Security Policy in Munich February 4, 2006. The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board of governors voted on Saturday to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council over concerns Tehran is secretly seeking atomic weapons, a diplomat said. REUTERS/Michael Dalder - RTR15UJ5

Iran negotiator: Nuclear program limits will have 'time frame'

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Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits Imam Ali shrine in Najaf, Iraq, July 19, 2013. REUTERS/Karim Kadim/Pool (IRAQ - Tags: POLITICS) - RTX11RSP

Ahmadinejad’s legal case still open, says Iran judiciary

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Iran's opposition leader and former presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi (C) attends Friday prayers in Tehran July 17, 2009. QUALITY FROM SOURCE. REUTERS/ISNA (IRAN POLITICS RELIGION) - RTR25RB8

Motahari says Supreme Leader called house arrests a 'favor'

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Iranian presidential candidates (L to R) Tehran's mayor Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, former parliament speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad Adel, former chief nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani, former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati, former chief of the Revolutionary Guards Mohsen Rezai, Mohammad Gharazi and former first vice president Mohammad Reza Aref attend a live debate on state television in Tehran on June 7, 2013, ahead of the upcoming presidential elections. AFP PHOTO/ IRIB/

Iran judiciary accuses Iran TV of bias

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QOM, IRAN: An Iranian Muslim cleric holds a copy of the Holy Koran during a sit-in condemning Pope Benedict XVI's recent speech about Islam and holy war in the auditorium of the Feyzieh, the main seminary school in Iran's clerical epicentre of Qom, 130 kms (80 miles) south of Tehran, 17 September 2006. Religious seminaries across Iran shut today to stage protests over remarks by the Pope that linked Islam to violence as top clerics vehemently criticised the pontiff's remarks. All of Iran's seminary schools

Qom's Society of Seminary Teachers issues warning to Rouhani

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A fighter of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) holds an ISIL flag and a weapon on a street in the city of Mosul, June 23, 2014. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry held crisis talks with leaders of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region on Tuesday urging them to stand with Baghdad in the face of a Sunni insurgent onslaught that threatens to dismember the country. Picture taken June 23, 2014. REUTERS/Stringer (IRAQ - Tags: CIVIL UNREST POLITICS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR3VIB1

Fars News objects to Arab media coverage of Iraq

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Iran Parliament says leggings are not pants

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EDITORS' NOTE: Reuters and other foreign media are subject to Iranian restrictions on their ability to film or take pictures in Tehran.

Mohammad Ali Jafari, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, attends a news conference in Tehran February 7, 2011. REUTERS/STRINGER (IRAN - Tags: POLITICS MILITARY) - RTXXKFA

Revolutionary Guard calls Iran 'island of stability'

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Iran professor sentenced to prison for criticizing nuclear program

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Nominated Iranian Minister for Intelligence, Mahmoud Alvai gives a speech during a parliament session to discuss the President's proposed cabinet in Tehran on August 13, 2013. Rowhani unveiled his all-male cabinet of technocrats on August 4 but his nominations must be confirmed by the conservative-dominated parliament in a process that has several stages. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

We can read your emails, says Iran’s intelligence minister

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Tehran, IRAN: An Iranian woman watches a training session of Iran's national football team from behind a fence as females were not allowed to enter the stadium at Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) sport complex, 22 May 2006. Iran's supreme leader has vetoed an order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to end a 26-year-old ban on allowing women in stadiums for major sporting events, the government said earlier this month. Last month Ahmadinejad ordered an end to a decades-old ban on women entering stadiums for major sp

Iranian women protest being barred from stadiums

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