Bloomberg - Authorities in Iran have shut down schools in eight provinces including the capital Tehran because of high levels of pollution, the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency reported. Schools and universities in Irans third-largest city, Esfahan, and its wider province, have also been closed. Other regions affected are Alborz, Eastern ...

Tasnim Eleven people were killed and more than 40 others were injured in a gas explosion at a wedding hall in Irans western province of Kurdistan on Thursday night. In remarks late on Thursday, the spokesman for Irans emergency medical services, Mojtaba Khaledi, said the deadly explosion of a gas heater at a wedding hall in the western city of ...

Tasnim At least seven people were killed and seven others injured in a chain reaction crash on Tehran-Saveh highway on Thursday, said the emergency services spokesman, Mojtaba Khaledi. Khaledi told Tasnim that after an accident between a few cars some 20 kilometers southwest of Tehran, suddenly a bus arrived and hit the vehicles, leading to an ...

RT - Despite booze being strictly forbidden in Iran, some tainted alcohol has left at least 42 people dead and more than 300 poisoned. Hundreds are still recovering in hospitals. The number of victims has climbed to 371 on Monday and has been drastically rising since the end of last week, with 42 fatalities, Irans state-run IRNA news agency said,...

AP Irans semi-official ISNA news agency says seven Iraqi pilgrims were killed when their bus overturned in northeastern Iran. Tuesdays report quotes spokesman of Irans emergency organization, Mojtaba Khaledi, as saying that 20 passengers out of the total of 29 on board were injured. He says seven pilgrims lost their lives in this accident ...