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. Mashregh News often breaks stories of international interest. In 2010, Mashregh News announced the 19-1/2 year prison sentence given to dissident Canadian-Iranian blogger

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. According to Mashregh News, Derakhshan was "convicted of cooperating with enemy states, making propaganda against the Islamic system of government, promoting small anti-revolutionary groups, managing obscene web sites and insulting Islamic sanctities". The agency is known for censoring and altering news images. In 2011, when

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was released from an Iranian prison, Mashregh News blurred the areas of her breasts and arms in photos of her. In January, 2012, Mashregh News broke the story of the six-month prison sentence given to women's rights activist Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former parliamentarian and daughter of former centrist president

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. She was also banned from politics for five years. In 2012, Mashregh News published a report accusing the United States and the United Kingdom of collaborating with Zionists and Hollywood to promote homosexuality, as part of their plan for world domination. The report referred to

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

as the "gay paradise on Earth". In January, 2013, Mashregh News reported the names of five Iranian journalists accused of being counterrevolutionaries, and "close to the plotters", terminology that the Iranian government uses to describe those working with its foreign opponents. Among the five were the editor-in-chief and two staffers for the reformist newspaper ''

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'', an editor for the newspaper ''Bahar'', and an editor for the

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. The

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has accused Mashregh News of

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for spreading

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such as citing the false claim that Nazis "manufactured soap from their Jewish victims" as evidence that

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never happened. In July 2016, this website reported

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developed Independent gas fields. The fields were located in Iran. In that same time, this company in Qatar developed gas fields, shared between

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and

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.About Schlumberger in Iran
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