MNA An Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) force was martyred on Sunday in the northwestern border city of Piranshahr. Piranshahr Governor Ali Torabi broke the news, saying that the IRGC serviceman, Khaled Shwaneh, was martyred on the city streets in a terrorist attack. He said intelligence operations and a manhunt are underway to arrest ...

Azer News - Iran's Minister of Information and Communications Technology Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi said nearly 70 percent of Iraqs internet services are being supplied by the Islamic Republic. Iran is using its northwestern border region of Piranshahr as a main hub to transit internet to Iraq, Azari Jahromi said on September 12, Fars news agency ...

IRNA - Border Guards Commander Brigadier General Qasem Rezaei said on Monday that controlling borders shared by Iraq is the main demand of Iran. Rezaei made the remarks while visiting the area where the conflict happened between Piranshahr regiment border guards and a terrorist group. He praised border guards for conducting brave operations. The ...

IRNA Border Guards Commander Brigadier General Qasem Rezaei said on Sunday that in a gun fight at Piranshahr border check point a member of a terrorist group who was to cross the border was gunned down and the rest fled the scene. The confrontation occurred in Iran-Iraq zero border check point, the commander said. During heavy exchange of fires,...

Tasnim Armed assailants killed an Iranian border guard in the northwestern province of West Azarbaijan early Sunday. During an exchange of fire in the border region of Piranshahr in the early hours of Sunday, armed outlaws killed a Border Police soldier. Two attackers were also killed in the incident, which occurred at Tamarchinborder post. The ...

Tasnim- Three members of Irans intelligence forces were killed in clashes with armed counter-revolutionary teams in the western city of Piranshahr on Wednesday, a security official said. One of the armed counter-revolutionary bandits which had entered the country with the aim of triggering explosions, creating casualties and sparking the recent ...

IRNA Clash broke out between border guards and armed insurgents in the northwestern city of Iran, Piranshahr, West Azarbaijan province, left one soldier and three others wounded. According to provincial Law Enforcement information center, the clashed between Piranshahr Border guards and the armed insurgents broke out when the latter were trying to ...

TEHRAN, Oct. 07 (MNA) 12 students who were burnt in an incident in their school will receive free education. Head of Islamic Azad University has informed in a letter the lawyer of burned students they can study in primary and high schools of Sama Organization. Sama Organization includes a network of schools run by the university. Hamid Mirzadeh ...

The prosecutor of Irans Western Azerbaijan province says according to investigations, no person or organization is responsible for the fire that broke out at a girls school in Shin-Abad. On December 5, 2012, a fire broke out a the girls school in Iranian town of Shin-Abad located in Piranshahr city in Western Azerbaijan as a result of which two students ...

Sariya Rasoulzadeh, another victim of the fire that injured 22 students earlier this month, died today, December 28, at Sina Hospital in Tabriz. Prianshahr MP Rasoul Khezri reported today that Rasoulzadeh passed away due to respiratory and kidney complications. On December 5, in a grade four class at a girls school in Sheenabad, 22 students were ...

9 December - 18 December Pictures below show Iran events in the past week,includingIslamic world university chancellors visiting Tehran's Sharif University; Japanese, Syrian envoys submitting credentials to Salehi; Nikzad taking over as acting communication minister; Opening of 18th intl. Elecomp exhibit in Tehran; meeting ofMajlis speaker and Passive ...

last Wednesday morning firebreak of a oil heater in Shin Abad school left it in ashes and made many children, all girls, hospitalized. Pictures below show Burned Shin Abad students in Imam Khomeini Hospital, Urmia By Mehr News

35 Iranian MP signatures have been gatheredfor theimpeachmentof Hamid Reza Hajji Babai,Irans Minister of Education, Mehr reported. Up to now, 35 MPs have signed impeachment petition, but final decision depends on the outcome of negotiations with ministry officials, Iranian lawmakerMousa al-Reza Servati announced. Iran lawmakers are seeking Hajji ...

TEHRAN Education Minister Hamid Reza Haji-Babaii attended an open session of the Majlis on Sunday and provided explanations about the recent fire incident at a school in northwestern Iran in which about 30 girl students suffered burns. The incident took place on December 5 in the village of Shin Abad in the city of Piranshahr, which is located in ...

Reza Rashidpour, former television presenter in Iran, threatens sit-in in front of Educations House if Hamid Reza Haji Babai, Irans Minister of Education, doesnt resign from his post. On Wednesday December 5, a fire accident in an elementary school in Piranshahr, Irans Western Azerbaijan Province, injured 37 students. Activists have asked the minister ...

TEHRAN On Wednesday, at least 27 girl students suffered burns as a result of a fire caused by an oil heater at an elementary school in the village of Shin Abad in the city of Piranshahr, which is located in the northwestern West Azerbaijan Province. Rescue teams were called to the scene of the incident at 8:25 a.m., and the injured people were taken ...

A Wednesday firebreak in a Shina Abad village school left the school in ashes and made many children, all girls, hospitalized.The fire in the school broke out after the heater of the school fired and fell in the doorstep as the teacher and the guard of the school tried to take the heater out. By ...

The six children received heavy ambustions as a result of an explosion in Iran's West Azarbaijan province, in Piranshahr County, Mehr agency reported. The governor of Piranshahr county Oruc Mucahedi said that an oil heater exploded in one of the classes of a girls' school in Piranshahr. The explosion caused fire outbreak, and female students in ...