TEHERAN: Iran's top national security agency will this week seriously examine proposals to shift the Islamic republic's political capital out of quake-prone Teheran following the devastating earthquake in the southeast of the country, state television reported yesterday.
Hassan Rowhani, a top cleric who heads the Supreme National Security Council, said the organisation would seriously study the problem of moving the capital on Saturday.
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