PayvandNews – Iran’s top banker says the country’s economic growth was robust in the fiscal year which is coming to a close soon but further improvement will depend on the non-oil performance of the economy. ran’s growth last year came courtesy of the recovery in oil production following the lifting of US-led sanctions, which boosted the government’s earnings. Oil production …

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister said Sunday his country delivered “severe blows” to Iranian and Syrian forces and vowed to take further action against its adversaries following the most serious Israeli engagement in Syria since the war there erupted almost seven years ago.

RFL/RE – The supreme leader’s representative at daily Kayhan newspaper has repeated a controversial statement from 10 years ago insisting that that Iran “owns” Bahrain and that its people feel separated from their motherland.

RFL/RE – A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said that figures the Rouhani administration has released about economic growth and employment do not reflect the truth.

RFL/RE – Hamid Baghaei, the former deputy president during Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s second administration, has renewed his war of words with the judiciary.

RFL/RE – Internationally renowned and leading Pakistani human rights advocate Asma Jahangir has died, a family member said Sunday, in a stinging blow to the country’s embattled rights community.

Iran-HRM A young man identified as Sajjad Rashidi was shot and killed before his family during an intelligence agents-involved shooting in Andimeshk in Khuzestan Province, southwest Iran.

RFL/RE – President Hassan Rohani called for unity across Iran’s political spectrum as the country marked the 39th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, weeks after antigovernment protests spread across the country.

Al-Arabia – Israel’s Minister of Intelligence Israel Katz said on Sunday that by striking key Iranian sites in Syria, Israel sent a clear message to Iran that it would not tolerate an Iranian military foothold on its doorstep and would act decisively to counter any further provocations.

CHRI – Third Death in Custody in Iran in 40 Days, All Alleged Suicides A third detainee, 63-year old Iranian-Canadian Professor Kavous Seyed-Emami, has died in custody in Iran, barely 17 days after his arrest and while under interrogations.