RFL/RE – Two Iranian IT experts have launched a modified version of Telegram to help their countrymen get around Tehran’s latest attempt to block the wildly popular messaging app.

CHRI – Lawyer: “Ramin’s case is being processed against ethical standards and existing laws. We have to try to save Ramin’s life.”

Al-Arabia – A federal US judge has ordered Iran to pay $6 billion to families of the victims of 9/11 after he found various government entities were accountable in the attacks.

Shabtabnews – Due to the pressure exerted through the support of MEPs in Europe, who publically demanded the end of the house arrest of the Dr Tabandeh, the 91 year old spiritual leader of Gonabadi Sufis, Dr Tabandeh was yesterday allowed a short visit to see his hospitalised daughter-in-law. The visit which last approximately thirty minutes was in response to …

antheamcintyre – Senior MEPs have launched an urgent appeal to halt the execution by the Iranian authorities of an innocent member of a persecuted religious minority. Led by British MEP Anthea Mcintyre, the politicians are calling on Iran to stop the execution of Yavar Mohammed Salas and order a retrial after he was sentenced to death by the Iranian Supreme …

Radiofarda – Iran’s national currency, the rial, continues its downward spiral, and is approaching 60,000 rials to the dollar.

Iran-HRM – On May Day, when labor rights groups are celebrating across the globe, Iran’s State Security Force reportedly arrested a number of activists in Tehran and Iranian Kurdistan Province, west of Iran. The state police attacked to a May Day rally held in Saghez, Kurdistan Province, injuring Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent labor activist and arresting a number of protesters. …

RFL/RE – A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned that his country will retaliate against what he called Israeli “aggression” in Syria after missile strikes this week killed 26 mostly Iranian fighters stationed at a Syrian military base. “We will respond to any aggression on Iran at the right time and place,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security …

Al-Arabia – United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said the UAE supports Morocco’s decision to sever its ties with Tehran after it was proven that it interfered in its internal affairs.

Al-Arabia – With the present Iran deal, put in place by US President Barak Obama and other world powers (P-5+1), Iran was invited back into the world’s political fold. There was hope that the country would become a cash cow in the form of billions of dollars coming from lucrative trade deals, and that its stalled nuclear program will remain …