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(note: Translated using Bing translator.) It was confirmed the news about the impact of a meteorite in Qazvin, Iran, there would be serious damage Breaking news: has just confirmed the news of a meteorite impact near Qazvin, Iran, not too far from the capital Tehran Iranian State. The news of the meteorite in Iran has just been confirmed by all the major news agencies in Iran, many of whom speak of damage (when wounded or victims have not been confirmed, although on the web are circulating rumors). The meteorite fell near Qazvin, but also near Karaj, Zanjan and Hamedan. The...

Iran has confirmed that a meteor has hit somewhere in the northern part of the country. The meteor landed in Avaj in the province of Qazvin, Mohammad Ali Ahani, director of Qazvin Crisis Management Staff said, Mehr news agency reported July 31. Also, there have been reports that some pieces of rock have hit areas in Eshtehard, Alborz Province, Arsalan Qasemi, governor of Boeen Zahra, county in Qazvin Province, said. Another local governor of Takestan County, Qazvin Province, said that the area witnessed the passing of the meteor, but nowhere in the district under his supervision had been hit.

Iranian Fars news agency reports a massive explosion in Qazvin city in Iran. The explosion reportedly happened in an oil depot. A 2 kilometer radius has been closed off around the site. There may be a secret uranium enrichment plant in or near Qazvin, according to Iranian dissidents. AP reports there are many casualties.

An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast.

An immense explosion has been heard throughout the northern Iranian city of Qazvin, semi-official Fars news agency reported, and many casualties are expected from the blast. Around 1.1 million people live in the city, which is located about 100 miles north of Tehran. The blast may be related to nuclear development in Iran, according to the Los Angeles Times. Iranian officials in the past have strongly denied claims by Mujahedin Khalq Organization, or MKO, a cult-like Iranian exile group, that it has a secret nuclear enrichment facility in Abyek, near the major city, according to the daily. The source of...

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Workers in the northwestern Iranian city of Qazvin have staged protests in recent days to demand the payment of wage arrears. The reformist website Jaras reported that dozens of workers at Qazvin's textile industry staged a demonstration in front of the Presidential Institute in Tehran on April 16, saying they had not been paid for over a year. The next day, Fars agency reported that workers at Qazvin's Naznakh textile company protested in front of the parliament for not having received their wages for the past 16 months. Workers at the city's Ziaran slaughterhouse also claim not to have received...

"Qazvin (Qazvim) Underground Facility Site 311" SNIPPET: "On September 09, 2010, was revealed the possible existence of another, previously unreported, Iranian nuclear enrichment site. Information pertaining to the site was obtained by Iran 's main opposition, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The facility, a major top-secret and strategic nuclear enrichment site, is located 60 miles north west of Tehran, and 25 miles South east of Qazvin, in the town of Abyek. The Behjatabad-Abyek nuclear enrichment site was reported to be code-named 311." SNIPPET: "The underground facility is said to eventually house centrifuges to enrich Uranium to weapons grade....

Perplexed by the vitriol of US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's attacks on Iran, one lawmaker believes he has uncovered the secret of her enmity -- that she was spurned by an Iranian boyfriend at college. "The reason that the US secretary of state attacks Iran is because she had her heart broken by a young man from Qazvin while they were students," a confident Shokrollah Attarzadeh was quoted by the ISNA agency as saying. Somewhat mysteriously, he added: "This is the result of an investigation by a woman MP, who cannot be named." Qazvin is an unremarkable city 150...