Tasnim The Iranian Police chasing three burglars in connection with a robbery early on Monday fired shots at their car in western Tehran, killing a woman with criminal record and injuring another thug, a commander said. Speaking to Tasnim, Tehran Police Chief General Hossein Sajedinia said the robbery was reported to the police early Monday morning,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Commander of Tehran Police Force Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia made assurances that the capital citys police are on full alert to provide security for mourning ceremonies held on the anniversary of martyrdom of Imam Hussein (AS). Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency, Brigadier General Sajedinia pointed to plans made by Tehran ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Commander of Tehran Police Force Brigadier General Hossein Sajedinia said that a number of individuals involved in a Saturday attack on the Saudi embassy in Tehran have been detained. Last night, at around 10:20 pm (local time), some rogue individuals staged a rally in front of the Saudi embassy and chanted anti-Saudi slogans, Brigadier ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- The head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard is saying the U.S. is still the "Great Satan" as local media is reporting police have raided shops distributing American, Israeli and British apparel. The comments by Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, reported by the official Guard website on Tuesday, said that "the enmity against Iranian ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Irans drug combat squads have seized more than 14,000 kilograms of illicit drugs in the city of Tehran in the first 10 months of the current Iranian year (March 21, 2014-January 21, 2015), a senior police commander announced on Saturday. We seized over 14 tons of various types of narcotics in the first ten months of the current year,...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 16 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Iranian newspapers on Saturday were dominated by the Supreme Leaders speech at a meeting with Basij volunteers on nuclear talks in which he supported the countrys negotiating ...

President Rouhani has pledged action to deal with a series of acid attacks on women, which have spurred public protests in Tehran and Isfahan. Rouhani saidafter a Cabinet meeting on Sunday that the Government will pursue the cases with all its might, and that the attackers will be harshly dealt with. The President said that the Interior, Intelligence,...

The Iranian police have detained a man who threatened people with acid attacks in the capital, Tehran, amid national outrage over recent cases of acid throwing. The arrest was made after a number of citizens in western Tehran contacted the police and reported that an unknown man had threatened them with acid attacks on the phone, Tehran Police Chief ...

(Reuters) - Six Iranians arrested for appearing in a video singing along to an American pop song were released on Wednesday, one day after being detained for what police called their "obscene" behaviour, one of them said in an online posting. In the clip, the three women and three men dance and lip synch to Pharrell Williams' "Happy", imitating the ...

Iranian youth who posted a video of themselves on YouTube dancing to Pharrell Williams song Happy have reportedly been arrested by Irans morality police. Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia announced on national television that all the people involved in the video have been identified. He warned that these young people had been duped and the video-...

About eight months ago, a Persian-language Facebook group calledShararat, or Felony, was launched. Its aim: to publish photographs and stories about famous Iranian felons both in and out of prison, as well as to familiarize readers with the type of language used by them. The pages have recently been removed. In early November last year, I wrote an ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Irans drug combat squads have seized more than 13 tons of various types of illicit drugs in six months of operations in the capital city of Tehran, a senior police commander announced on Wednesday. We have discovered and seized over 13 tons of narcotics in the city (Tehran) in the last six months, Tehran's Police Chief General Hossein ...

Iranian police wounded five armed thugs in a rare shootout in Tehran, local media reported on Monday, quoting a senior police officer. "There were some armed clashes when some thugs used firearms as the police tried to arrest them," Tehran police chief Hossein Sajedinia was quoted as saying by the Mehr news agency, without specifying when the incident ...