Iran on Saturday handed a daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani a suspended jail sentence for spreading lies about the authorities, her lawyer told the official IRNA news agency. "The verdict was issued by the court and my client has been sentenced to a six-month suspended jail term," Vahid Abolmoalayee said. Fatemeh Hashemi's sentence ...

SUMMARY:Speaking after a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday the first after his return from five days of diplomacy and public relations in New York President Rouhani pressed his line of engagementand nuclear discussions with the US and other countries, claiming that Iran had established its key starting points. Rouhani, referring to two of Tehrans essential ...

By The Daily Star TEHRAN: Some six million patients in Iran are affected by Western economic sanctions as import of medicine is becoming increasingly difficult, a governmental paper reported Sunday quoting a health official. Sanctions imposed on Iran's banking sector "severely affected" the import of drugs and pharmaceutical devices for treatment ...

By The Journal of Turkish Weekly Millions of lives are at risk in Iran because western economic sanctions are hitting the importing of medicines and hospital equipment, the country's top medical charity has warned, the Guardian reported. Fatemeh Hashemi, head of the Charity Foundation for Special Diseases, a non-government organisation supporting ...