Al-Monitor – After 40 years and some last-minute power plays and wrangling between President Hassan Rouhani’s administration and conservatives in the police force, Iranian women were allowed to enter Tehran’s Azadi stadium to watch a televised World Cup match, between Iran and Spain, alongside men.

Radiofarda – Iranian officials opened the doors of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium to women after forty years, Wednesday evening, June 20, making headlines around the world.

gatestoneinstitute – Most alarming to the U.S. has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s position on Iran, where the regime seems to want to increase its influence in Canada due to its proximity to the U.S. Trudeau has been enabling this penetration.

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have arrested a lawyer for spreading “lies” after claiming that a Sufi man executed this week was wrongfully convicted of killing three police officers, local media report. The semiofficial Fars news agency said on June 20 that an arrest warrant was issued against Zeinab Taheri for making “false statements” and because of “her lies propagated online …

Radiofarda – Germany has voiced concern about increasing cyberattacks from Iran, Russia and China.

Radiofarda – Measures are needed to counter Iran’s “aggressive tendencies” in the Middle East, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday after talks in Jordan with King Abdullah.

Radiofarda – Former chief of the joint staff of Iranian armed forces, Major General Hassan Firouzabadi says he has returned a 10 thousand square meter villa he had occupied for 25 years.

Iran-HRM – Political prisoner Rasoul Hardani, held at Rajaie Shahr Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, has been on hunger strike since Monday, June 18, 2013, to protest prison authorities denying him medical treatment outside the prison.

Iran-HRM – Son of Sufi bus driver Mohammad Salas, who was executed on Monday, June 18, published a video message declaring that his father’s torture signs were covered by the prison’s agents before his hearings. He also mentioned that after his father’s execution, the body was secretly sent to the city of Boroujerd, western Iran, so that forensics could not …

Al-Arabia – Iraqi police surrounded the headquarters of an Iran-backed militia and detained one of its members after an armed clash Wednesday left three people wounded in Baghdad, a security official said.