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Gang of excavators arrested in western Iran
TEHRAN – A gang of illegal diggers has been arrested by the Iranian police in Bedreh, western Ilam province.
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2021-02-20 17:21
$2.8b of drug traffickers’ assets confiscated
TEHRAN – Iranian police have seized illegally acquired assets of drug traffickers worth 120 trillion rials (nearly $2.8 billion at the official rate of 42,000 rials) over the past 10 months, IRNA reported on Saturday.
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2021-02-14 21:00
Millennia-old relics recovered in Kordestan
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently confiscated some historical relics from three smugglers in Saqqez county, western Kordestan province, CHTN reported on Sunday.
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2021-02-08 21:04
Iranian police seize millennia-old jug from smuggler
TEHRAN –An earthenware jug, estimated to date back to 5,000 years before the Bronze Age, has recently been confiscated from a smuggler in the western province of Lorestan, a senior police official has announced.
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2021-02-01 21:35
Three individuals arrested for illegal excavations
TEHRAN – Iranian police have arrested three people while committing illegal excavations at an ancient site in Choram county of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, the provincial tourism chief has announced.
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2021-02-01 21:32
Illegal construction tore down in ancient Neyshabur
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently demolished a brick construction that was illegally developing within the legitimate boundaries of ancient Neyshabur in northeast Iran.
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2021-01-25 17:59
Some 12,000 historical objects retrieved in 9 months
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recovered 12,000 original historical objects from smugglers or illegal diggers over the first nine months of the current Iranian calendar year (March 20-December 20, 2020), a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage said on Sunday.
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2021-01-24 20:00
Iranian police bust gang of illegal diggers
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently busted a gang of illegal excavators in a historical site in Sarchehan county, southern Fars province, a provincial tourism official has said.
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2021-01-03 20:42
Iranian police arrest illegal excavators in Alamut
TEHRAN - Iranian police have recently busted a gang of illegal diggers in Alamut, a semi-mountainous region in Qazvin province, west-central Iran.
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2020-12-27 21:30
Iranian police bust gang of illegal excavators
TEHRAN - Iranian police have recently busted a gang of illegal diggers in Robat Karim, Tehran province, a local tourism official has announced.
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2020-12-12 22:35
Achaemenid, Seleucid objects seized from smugglers
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have confiscated five ancient objects from smugglers in the western province of Kermanshah, a senior police official in charge of protecting cultural heritage has said.
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2020-09-06 19:30
Iranian police bust gangs of illegal excavators
TEHRAN – Iranian authorities have recently busted two gangs of illegal diggers in southwestern Khuzestan and northern Mazandaran provinces.
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2020-08-21 19:00
Iranian police seize Parthian-era relics in southwest
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently confiscated three historical relics from a home in Dehdez city, Izeh county, southwestern Khuzestan province.
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2020-08-15 15:46
Illegal diggers arrested in Mazandaran province
TEHRAN- Iranian police have arrested 10 unauthorized diggers in Savadkuh county, the northern province of Mazandaran.
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2020-08-14 19:30
Iron Age jug seized in Zanjan
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently confiscated a pre-historical clay jug, estimated to date from the Iron Age, from an antique dealer in Zachkan village in northwestern Zanjan province.
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2020-08-08 19:00
Millennia-old jug recovered in Tehran
TEHRAN – Iranian police have recently confiscated a clay jug, estimated to date back to some 4,900 years ago, from an antique smuggler in Tehran, IRNA reported.
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2020-07-03 20:00
Police blocks websites trading historical objects
TEHRAN – Iranian police have blocked 86 websites which were illegally trading historical artifacts, ISNA reported on Thursday.
