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Iran: ‘The pain of sanctions’

Written byHadi Nili

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Posted 25 January 2012 21:18 GMT

European Union has adopted an oil embargo against Iran. Faren Taghizadeh, a presenter at BBC Persian TV posted [fa] in Facebook: This is one of the adversities of being a journalist that you should talk about the pain of your people in details with a smile on your lips. But this smile is not the whole truth.

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