Radio Farda - The prosecutor in the corruption trial of a super-rich sponsor of major Iranian football (soccer) clubs, says one of the suspects in the case had opened 242 bank accounts within a day in his 8-year-old sons name, Iranian news agencies reported. At a court session on Sunday March 10, the prosecutors described the act as tantamount to ...

Press TV - A minister of former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's administration has been detainedover economic malfeasance charges. Parviz Kazemi, former minister of welfare and social security in the first cabinet of Ahmadinejad, was detainedtwo days ago and transferred to Tehran's Evin House of Detention on charge ofcausing disruption inthe ...