Radiofarda – A Syrian war monitor says Israeli strikes on suspected military positions in Syria this week killed 42 people.

Iran-HRM – In Iran, last year alone, due to heart failure caused by lack of medication and injection of low-quality drugs, 93 thalassemia patients have died.

Iran-HRM – The details of Tehran municipality’s 2018 budget show that at least $10 million of the municipality’s annual budget has been allocated to religious entities and Basij repressive paramilitary force.

Iran-HRM – It is for several days that eight people arrested in Khozestan’s peaceful demonstrations have gone on hunger strike to protest prison’s dire conditions and heavy bails.

Iran-HRM – Mohammad Sharafi, the head of NAJA (Disciplinary Force of Islamic Republic) cited that police budget has escalated to equip its patrols with uniform cameras asap in the current year.

RFL/RE – A new film by Iranian director Jafar Panahi, who is banned from leaving Iran, has premiered to a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival.

Al-Arabia – The war against ISIS in Iraq was won by a combination of Iraqi Shiite militias, Iraqi Kurdish militias and Iranian forces and logistical support. As a result of their essential aid, the government in Baghdad has been effectively captured by Iran.

Al-Arabia – An Iranian delegation of 70 experts and businessmen from the private and public sectors by the country’s deputy minister of industry, mines and trade landed in Doha for a two-day meeting.

VOA — An Iranian court on Sunday sentenced eight men to death over attacks that killed 18 people at the parliament and Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum last year, in the first deadly operation by Islamic State in the country.

CHRI – “The authorities…told me that they are trying to grind me to oblivion.” Mohammad Najafi, a human rights lawyer facing years behind bars in Iran for publicly arguing that local police tried to conceal the cause of a detainee’s death, says he is determined to continue seeking justice for the victim.