Islamic Republic News Agency

Two Dead, 255 Injured in Iran Earthquake

AFP - A strong 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck western Iran near the border with Iraq early Sunday, killing two people and injuring more than 250, officials said.

The shallow quake hit 26 kilometres (16 miles) southwest of the city of Javanrud in Kermanshah province, the US Geological Survey said, near the site of a powerful quake last year that killed hundreds.

Bodies of all 11 women recovered from private Turkish jet crash in Iran

Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency has reported that the Iranian authorities have recovered the “black box” from a Turkish private jet that crashed in the country while traveling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul on March 11, killing all 11 people onboard.

Iran moves to change currency unit back to toman

Iran plans to revalue its rial tenfold and revert to the currency's old name, the toman, according to a bill approved on Dec. 7 by President Hassan Rouhani's cabinet, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) has reported.

The currency was called the toman until the 1930s and most Iranians still refer to it by that name.

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