Radiofarda – Iran’s Telecommunications minister has criticized the government’s cyber-attack monitoring center for failing to detect an attack that led to the hacking of several Iranian data centers on the evening of April 6, despite a warning about the attack ten days before it took place.

Radiofarda – A hardline Iranian cleric claims that President Rouhani’s government intends to filter the messaging app Telegram and put the blame on the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Radiofarda – The imperiled Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran has shrunk further, losing another 23 square kilometers (roughly nine square miles) of its surface area within a year, local media reported.

Iran-HRM – A political prisoner forced to serve his prison term in the Central Zahedan Prison who is on his 34th day of hunger strike wrote a letter from prison detailing the reason behind the strike.

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Arash Sadeghi, has been deprived of specialist medical treatment for a year due to intervention from the Revolutionary Guards Corps. Reports also indicate that during the past few months, he has suffered physical and mental pressure in Rajaie Shahr Prison.

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appears to have come under attack from both ends of Iran’s political spectrum: The far right and the far left.

Reuters – In a corner of the departures area at Rostov airport in southern Russia, a group of about 130 men, many of them carrying overstuffed military-style rucksacks, lined up at four check-in desks beneath screens that showed no flight number or destination.

Radiofarda – The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia and Turkey are set to meet in Kazakhstan next week as the three countries attempt to move forward with a plan to end nearly seven years of war in Syria.

Iran-HRM – Referring to the observation of several cases of hepatitis A in Khuzestan Province, the head of the Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences warned about the effects of water shortages and droughts on the spread of diseases, especially waterborne diseases.

Iran-HRM – State of child marriages in Iran: According to the Association for the Protection of the Rights of the Child in Iran, the number of girls who were married under the age of 15 has risen from 33,000 in 2006 to 43,000 in 2009, which shows a 30% increase in just three years. This is while only in 2015, close to …