PayvandNews – Music and songs transferred orally among various Iranian tribes and peoples is an invaluable inheritance which should be known in order to be properly preserved. Iranian local music also called regional music according to some sources include the music of micro-cultures classified under Iranian or Persian Culture. This report, is based on a book titled: General Musical Knowledge …
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Russia Launches Syria Air Strikes From Iranian Base
RFL/RE – The Russian military has conducted air strikes in Syria using warplanes based in Iran for the first time, Russian state media are reporting. Russia’s Defense Ministry said the August 16 air strikes were carried out by Tu-22M3 long-range bombers and Su-34 strike fighters that took off from the Hamadan air field in Iran. The ministry claimed the strikes successfully …
Read More »Iran Kills Three Purported Sunni Militants
RFL/RE – Iranian security forces claim they have killed three purported Sunni militants in western Iran. Police reported that the men were killed in a shoot-out on August 16 in the city of Kermanshah, about 500 kilometers southwest of Tehran and about 100 kilometers from the border with Iraq. They said an automatic rifle and a suicide vest were confiscated after …
Read More »Iran Reportedly Detains British Dual National
RFL/RE – Media in Iran are reporting that authorities have detained a dual Iranian-British citizen on suspicion of spying. The state IRNA news agency reported on August 16 that the unidentified detainee had “been active in the economic field, related to Iran.” The British government has not commented on the report. Iranian authorities have detained at least six other dual …
Read More »MasterCards to Become Operational in Iran from Aug.23: Minister
Tasnim – Iran’s Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi announced that financial branches of the country’s Post Company will offer credit card services in late August. Credit and debit cards will be distributed at financial branches of the Iran Post Company from August 23, Vaezi said at a ceremony in Tehran on Sunday. Stressing that Iranians can use …
Read More »Iran enjoys 4.4% economic growth in 1st quarter
MNA – Statistical Center of Iran (SCI) has reported that the country’s GDP, excluding oil, reached 4.4 per cent in the first quarter of the current Iranian year (began March 20). CSI announced on Sunday that Iran’s constant-price Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stood at about 6.7 billion dollars including oil and 5.4 billion dollars excluding oil. The figures indicate a …
Read More »Iran children at the gallows
newsday— As Iran currently executes the highest number of juvenile offenders in the world, hundreds of Iranian minors helplessly watch their childhoods pass them by, as they await their fatal ends behind bars. At least 160 youths under the age of 18 currently await execution in Iran. Shockingly, rights groups have reported that Iran has executed at least 230 people …
Read More »Israel Loses Secretive Oil Pipeline Case To Iran, Ordered To Pay $1.1 Billion Plus Interest
Forbes – The Swiss Federal Tribunal, Switzerland’s highest court, ordered Israel to pay $1.1 billion plus interest to Iran in a decades old dispute over a secretive oil pipeline predating Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution. The verdict was dated June 27, while media broke the story late last week. Until the Islamic revolution and the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty in …
Read More »Charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe in Iran are ‘absurd’
BBC – The husband of a British mother detained in Iran has said the idea she could be involved in trying to overthrow the regime is “absurd”. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is due on trial on as yet unspecified charges after being arrested in April. Speaking to the BBC on the couple’s seventh wedding anniversary, Richard Ratcliffe, from north London, said …
Read More »Despite Authorities’ Denial, HRANA Confirms the Executions in Uremia Prison
HRANA News Agency – Although the families of 7 prisoners including Mohammad Abdollahi’s family had been summonedto Uremia Prison for the last visit and on August 9 the names of 5 executed prisoners were read for the families in front of the prison and at least 4 corpses were delivered to the families, the Head of Prisons Office in West Azerbaijan province …
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