IFP - A young Iranian girl disfigured in an acid attack back in 2014 has gotten married, sparking widespread positive reactions in Irans social media. Marzieh Ebrahimi, a young Iranian girl who fell victim to an acid attack years ago, has tied the knot. Her marriage has turned into the most high-profile one in the country, not because ...

The prime suspect in a spate of acid attacks that rattled the central city of Isfahan in 2014 has reportedly confessed to committing the crime. A well-placed source said although the suspect who has displayed anti-female behavior has confessed, it is still too soon to definitively identify him as the acid attacker. The source who wished not to ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Saturday and picked headlines from 36 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The passing of pop singer Morteza Pashaei at the age of 30 after a year-long battle against cancer and the conclusion of the 20th Exhibition of the Press and News Agencies ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 29 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. An order by President Hassan Rouhani to have the Management and Planning Organization revived appeared on the front pages of many Iranian newspapers on Tuesday. Supreme ...

Zahedan, Sistan-Baluchestan Prov, Nov 6, IRNA - Prosecutor General Ebrahim Raeisi on Thursday stressed that harshest sentences await acid attackers. Speaking to reporters in Zahedan, he said that investigations for finding the individuals or groups behind the acid attacks in Isfahan will continue. Certain foreign media used the crime as a tool to ...

Tehran, Nov 2, IRNA - Chairman of the Expediency Council Ayatollah Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Sunday called for punishment of acid attackers. He made the remarks in a mourning ceremony of Moharram al-Haram. Rafsanjani said that the security forces are expected to bring to justice the culprits responsible for acid attacks in the Central city of Isfahan....

US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on November 9-10, in the next stage of talks pursuing a comprehensive nuclear agreement before a November 24 deadline. The European Unions Catherine Ashton will also attend the discussions, to be held in Oman. Kerry said on Friday that he was ready for a slog ...

A senior Iranian cleric says the recent acid attacks against women in Iran are plots aimed at sabotaging a parliamentary bill empowering people to further promote moralities in the society. Some people are trying to create the impression that promotion of virtue and prevention of vice is to disrupt public security, Kazem Seddiqi told worshippers at ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Tuesday and picked headlines from 25 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Snapshots and remarks of President Rouhani about the possibility of a nuclear deal between Iran and P5+1 in meetings with the new ambassadors of four European countries ...

[caption id="attachment_123427" align="alignright" width="158"] Esfahan Provincial Governor Rasoul Zargarpour[/caption] Iranian security forces have apprehended 10 suspects in relation to the recent cases of acid attacks against women in the central city of Esfahan. So far, ten suspects have been identified with respect to acid attack in the province,...

Iran's judiciary chief has tasked his deputy to lead an investigation into several acid attacks on women that have sown fear across the Islamic republic and provoked rare protests in cities. With political attention increasingly focused on the attacks -- at least four women have been doused in acid by assailants on motorcycles -- Iran's authorities ...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says his administration is pursuing the recent case of acid attacks on women with all its might, adding that the culprits will be harshly dealt with. The Iranian president said in a cabinet session on Sunday that the three ministers, tasked with following up the case, had delivered their report to the cabinet earlier ...

IFP has taken a look at the front pages of newspapers on Sunday and picked headlines from 21 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. A memorial service for the late Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani attended by Islamic Revolution Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was placed by several newspapers ...

(Reuters) - Iranian security forces arrested world-renowned human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh and several others on their way back from a protest on Saturday, her husband said. "While returning from the sit-in outside the Bar Association in Tehran, Nasrin was detained along with several friends and colleagues," her husband, Reza Khandan, said on ...

The Iranian health minister says government supports the victims of recent acid attacks in Isfahan. Iranian Health Minister Seyyed Hassan Hashemi says there have been nine acid attacks since the start of this year [March 21, 2014] and that victims, among them four men, have mostly needed outpatient treatment. According to Fararu, a news website, the ...

Irans President Hassan Rouhani has instructed three ministries to step up efforts to find culprits behind recent acid attacks in the central city of Isfahan amid national outrage over the inhumane assaults. Rouhani on Thursday tasked the ministries of the interior, intelligence and justice with launching an investigation into the sensitive case after ...

The deputy head of Irans Security forces says investigations regarding the incidents of acid throwing in Isfahan have revealed that the crimes were committed by a single individual and not by an organized group. IRNA quotes Hossein Zolfaghari saying: The information we have gathered points toward actions by a single individual [and] as investigations ...

Tehran, Oct 23, IRNA Government has ordered launching a harsh campaign against the acid attacker criminals, Vice President and Head of Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtakar said here Friday. The DOE chief reacting to the recent days' acid attacks against a number of Isfahani women and a single similar case in Mashhad announced the news in a ...

IFP has flipped through the front pages of the Iranian dailies on Thursday and picked headlines from 24 of them. Instructions by the Supreme Leader that the country should stop relying on oil revenues dominated the front pages of the Iranian dailies on Thursday. Also appearing on the front pages were warnings by President Hassan Rouhani during a visit ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranians rallied on Wednesday in the central city of Isfahan and the capital, Tehran, to protest a string of acid attacks on women in Isfahan in recent months, the latest public outcry over the assaults that have shocked the nation. About 2,000 people gathered in front of Isfahan's judiciary building, demanding that the perpetrators ...