IRNA A bus crash killing a number of university students in Tehran is under investigation, according to Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi. A bus capsized in the campus of Azad University of Science and Research in Tehran on Tuesday, claiming the lives of eight students and the driver as well. A sum of 27 others were also injured in the ...

Xinhua -- At least 10 were killed as a bus carrying students overturned on Tuesday on the campus of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iranian Student (ISNA) news agency reported Wednesday. A total of 27 others were injured, Peyman Saberian, chief of Tehran Emergency Center, was quoted as saying. Earlier reports said a number of injured students ...

Tasnim Iranian Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani urged the countrys prosecutor general to swiftly deal with the case of a bus crash at a Tehran university, which killed a number of students. In a message released on Wednesday, Ayatollah Amoli Larijani offered his deep condolences to the Iranian nation and the bereaved families of the ...

Mizan | Ali Shirband; A bus carrying university students rolled over on Tuesday after its driver reportedly suffered a heart attack, killing 8 and injuring 28 more, including the driver.    

IRNA Iranian Parliament (Majlis) Speaker Ali Larijani on Tuesday expressed condolences over death of several university students in a bus accident on the campus of the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University. He also expressed sympathy with the bereaved families, prayed for forgiveness of the departed souls and wished swift recovery ...

IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a message on Tuesday expressed condolences over death of several university students in the fatal bus accident. It grieved me to hear about the accident which claimed lives of several dear university students and injured dozens others, he said. I condole to the Iranian noble nation, bereaved families ...

MNA Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Khamenei has expressed his condolences on the loss of lives of several academy students in a bus accident in the north of Tehran on Tuesday. After a bus carrying university students turned over, killing 9 and injuring 28 others, according to the latest update, the Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah ...

IRNA President Hassan Rouhani expressed condolences over deadly bus accident at Azad University campus on Tuesday, saying the officials should fully investigate the case and adopt all measures to prevent recurrence of such incidents. His condoling message reads that the grievous accident which killed several students and wounded dozens others created ...

IRNA Irans First Vice-President Eshaq Jahangiri issued a message of condolence on Tuesday following a deadly bus crash in the Iranian capital. A bus capsized in the campus of Azad University of Science and Research in Tehran on Tuesday, claiming the lives of eight students and the driver as well. 28 others were also injured in the incident. In ...

Tasnim A bus carrying students at a university in northwest Tehran rolled onto its side on Tuesday, killing at least 7 people. Spokesman for the Fire Department of Tehran said the crash occurred at 12:22 pm local time at the Science and Research Branch of Islamic Azad University in northwest Tehran. The university is located on a mountainous ...

MNA Head of Islamic Azad University board of founders said that Bashar al-Assad has requested Iran to open branches of Azad University in all the cities of Syria. Head of Islamic Azad UniversityBoard of Founders Ali Akbar Velayati said in a ceremony arranged in honor of Azad University officialsthat friendand foeacknowledge that Iran is the ...

MNA Farhad Rahbar has been nominated as the new head of Azad University as Irans largest private academic institution. The decision was made during a Monday meeting of the Supreme Council of Cultural Revolutions committee in charge of electing heads of universities. Members of the Council gathered on Sunday and Farhad Rahbar, former chancellor ...

IFP- A group of Iranian students at the Islamic Azad University have built a robot that can assist physically-disabled people, according to a university official. Deputy Director of Research and Technology Department at the Islamic Azad University (IAU), Morteza Mousakhani, says the university has financially supported the students to build the ...

Tasnim Dr. Farhad Rahbar, an Iranian economist and ex-chancellor of Tehran University, was appointed the new head of the Islamic Azad University. Members of the Board of Trustees of the Islamic Azad University held a meeting on Sunday morning in the Iranian capital, Tehran, and elected Rahbar as the new president of the private university. The ...

Tasnim The Islamic Azad University of Iran seeks to boost cooperation with the neighboring countries and allies, a senior official at the 35-year-old organization said, unveiling plans for opening new branches in Iraq and Lebanon. Head of the Founding Council and Board of Trustees of the Islamic Azad University Ali Akbar Velayati said on Tuesday ...

Iranian Diplomacy- A political dispute over Irans Islamic Azad University, the largest non-profit university of the country and one of the legacies of the late Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, is brought into the foreground, right after the recent presidential election. Though the abrupt dismissal of the university's chancellor Hamid Mirzadeh ...

Al-Monitor | Zep Kalb: On April 23, hours after the conservative daily Kayhan proclaimed that [Islamic] Azad University is awaiting major restructuring, four members of the institutions nine-member board of trustees called a special session. Later in the day, Hamid Mirzadeh, the president of Islamic Azad University (IAU), received a note telling him ...

ISNA Irans Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch and Spains Nebrija University signed a MoU to expand scientific, educational and cultural cooperation. An academic delegation from Nebrija University in Spain visited the scientific and research units of the Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch and signed a MoU. The ...

Al-Monitor- Much has been said about the political legacy of formerIranian PresidentAli Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjanifollowing his death Jan.8 at the age of 82 from a heart attack, but his most lasting legacywill be in higher education. Ayatollah Rafsanjani was among the founders of Islamic Azad University (IAU)and served as head of its Founders' Committee,...

MNA By Leader Ayat. Khameneis decree, Ali Akbar Velayati has been appointed to the head of Islamic Azad Universitys board of founders, a position previously held by late Ayat. Hashemi Rafsanjani. Due to the sorrowful loss of the head of the Islamic Azad Universitys board of founders and trustees, and the silence of the statute adopted by the Supreme ...