Tehran City Council Session Erupts Over Bus Contract With China | #citycouncil
Tehran City Council members clashed on Sunday over a contract for importing electric buses following the release of a report criticizing the deal’s lack of transparency. Media activist Yashar Soltani had earlier exposed the two billion euro contract details on his website in which he revealed that the Chinese firm involved, a construction company founded […]
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German-Iranians Urge Mayor To Save Jailed Rapper
Iranians pressed a German mayor with ties to the Iranian city of Esfahan to use his leverage to secure the freedom of detained dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi. The controversial mayor of the South-Western city of Freiburg, Martin Horn, has a twin city partnership with Esfahan (Isfahan), where Salehi is detained. “The mayor of Freiburg, Martin Horn, can actually […]
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Tehran’s ‘Revolutionary’ Mayor Faces Financial, Marital Scandals
A member of the Tehran City Council made accusations this week that 170 trillion rials, or $336 million of Tehran Municipality’s collected revenues are missing. Habib Kashani, who is also a member of the Tehran City Council’s Transparency Committee, told reporters in Tehran that the Municipality’s total revenues were 800 trillion rials last year, out […]
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