· January, 2013

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Stories about Farsi from January, 2013

Iran: A Crime on YouTube, an Execution in Public

  22 January 2013

Two young men, Alireza Mafiha and Mohammad Ali Sarvari, were executed by hanging in Tehran, Iran in the early hours of January 20, before the eyes of public spectators who had gathered to watch.

Iran: ‘Tehran Has More Than 1 million Facebook Users’

  14 January 2013

The deputy parliament speaker says Tehran has ‘more than 1 million Facebook users’ and there are more than 200,000 in other big cities of Iran like Shiraz and Rasht. Hasan Aboutorabi regrets that ‘such a potential space is in the hands of our enemy and they deploy all of its capacities against us.’

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