Speaker: Majlis seriously following up tragic train incident
IRNA – Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani said the parliament is seriously following up the tragic train incident recently happened in Semnan. Addressing…
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Iranian lawmakers preparing to impeach transport minister
IFP- “The motion to impeach Transport Minister Abbas Akhoundi has been signed by 70 ministers and presented to the Parliament’s presiding board,”…
Iran reveals cause of fatal train crash in Semnan Province
Press TV- An Iranian official says an operator in charge of the Centralized Traffic Control (CTC) of Shahroud railway station was responsible…
Iranian road minister apologizes for deadly train crash
Tasnim – Iran’s Minister of Road and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi offered his apologies to the people of the country for a…
Putin offers condolences to Rouhani on deadly Iran train crash – Kremlin
Sputnik– The Russian president offered condolences to his Iranian counterpart on the train crash in northern Iran. MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Russian President Vladimir…
Iranian President hopes for no possible obstacles in Tehran-Moscow relations
Sputnik– Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said he hoped to eliminate any kind of possible obstacles to the development of relations between Moscow…
Takfiri groups embarked on a cowardish revenge of Arbaeen pilgrims
khamenei.ir- The following is the full text of the message delivered on November 26, 2016 by Ayatollah Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of…
Those behind rail tragedy should be identified without delay: Judiciary
Tasnim – Iranian Judiciary’s Deputy Chief and Spokesman Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejei stressed the need to identify and put on trial those…
Iran in photos: Nov. 21-27
November 27, The Iran Project – Slovenian President Borut Pahor visiting Iran and meeting with senior Iranian officials, deadly car bomb killing around…
Weekly report: Deadly train collision in Iran
November 27, The Iran Project – Slovenian President Borut Pahor visiting Iran and meeting with senior Iranian officials, deadly terrorist bomb attack near…
Turkey condoles with Iranian govt., nation on train collision
IRNA – Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, issuing a statement on Saturday evening, extended condolences on demise of a number of Iranians as a…
Azeri president condoles with Iran president on deaths caused by train collision
IRNA – Azeri President Ilham Aliyev on Saturday expressed condolence to President Hassan Rouhani on dozens deaths of passengers and crew caused…
Kuwait’s Emir condoles with Iran president on train collision
IRNA – Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah late Saturday expressed condolences to President Hassan Rouhani on deaths of dozens of…
Head of Iran railway system resigns over deadly train collision
Press TV- The head of Iran’s state-owned railway system has stepped down over a fatal collision between two passenger trains in the…
A Look at Iranian Newspaper Front Pages on November 26
Iran Front Page- The top story in today’s newspapers was the train collision in Iran’s Semnan province and the ISIS’ terrorist attack…
Iran authorities detain 3 railroad staff over deadly train collision
AP — Iran’s judiciary is saying authorities have detained three employees of the state railroad company over Friday’s train collision, which killed…
Iran’s top judge orders probe into train crash
Tasnim– Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani ordered the provincial judge in Semnan to hold an inquiry into a deadly train…
Leader: Semnan, Hilla events should be addressed as priorities
MNA– Leader of the Islamic Revolution has issued a directive to mandate immediate addressing of Hilla terrorist attack in Iraq and Semnan…
President condoles deaths in train crash, seeks an immediate inquiry
IRNA – President Hassan Rouhani on Friday expressed grief at deaths of passengers and crew in train crash and sought an immediate…
Technical inquiry underway to determine causes of train collision
IRNA – Technical inquiry is underway to determine the causes of train collision in the northern Semnan province, Minister of Roads and…
Two trains collide in north-central Iran, kill 44
Press TV- Over 40 people have lost their lives and dozens more have been injured after two passenger trains collided at a station in Iran’s…
Train collision claims lives of passengers in Semnan
IRNA – A local official in Shahroud said on Friday that in a train collision in Haft Khan station in Shahroud some…