Shabtabnews – Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, in a speech delivered to the Revolutionary Guard Corps, called the Sufis and their beliefs a “danger”, and demanded that they be confronted and their spread in the country be controlled.
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Housing Cost In Tehran Skyrockets As People Measure Value In US Dollars
Radiofarda – The average house price in Tehran has had a 74 percent jump during just one year since September 2017, the Central Bank of Iran announced.
Read More »China’s Sinopec Halves Iran Oil Loadings Under U.S. Pressure -Sources
Radiofarda – China’s Sinopec Corp is halving loadings of crude oil from Iran this month, as the state refiner comes under intense pressure from Washington to comply with a U.S. ban on Iranian oil from November, said people with knowledge of the matter.
Read More »Iran Allows Central Bank To Defend Rial By Intervening In Forex Market
Radiofarda – Iran on Saturday authorized the central bank to intervene in the foreign exchange market in defense of the rial, state television reported, after the currency fell to repeated record lows in recent weeks following the reimposition of U.S. sanctions.
Read More »The military parade attack: An incident and two platforms
Al-Arabia – In October 1981, Nasr City in Cairo witnessed a military parade marking the eight-year anniversary of the 1973 Arab–Israeli War. Then-Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar Sadat was in the first line of the audience in the ceremony to which guests from inside and outside Egypt were invited to.
Read More »How will the Iranian Revolutionary Guards respond to the Ahwaz attack?
Al-Arabia – Mystery still surrounds the attack that targeted a military parade of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Ahwaz and killed at least 25 people, including 12 soldiers and a child, and injured at least 25 others. ISIS was the first to claim responsibility and an Arab organization that calls for the liberation of Ahwaz also issued a statement claiming …
Read More »Death Row Juvenile Offender At Risk Of Execution
Iran-HRM – Iran Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a young man arrested for a crime allegedly committed while he was 16. Saleh Shariati was sentenced to death based solely on Qassameh (the sworn testimony of non-witnesses for an incident which took place) when he was 16 years old.
Read More »Iran Prosecutor General Threatens Striking Truckers To Death
Iran-HRM – Iran’s Prosecutor General threatened striking truckers to death saying truckers who disrupt road regulations “will be considered bandits which can sometimes lead to death sentences,” the state-run Radio and TV news network (IRIB) reported on Thursday, September 27.
Read More »Detained Yarsan Man Tortured To Death In Iran
Iran-HRM – Ramin Moshasha, grandson of leader of Yarsanis, was killed under torture in Hamedan prison on September 25. He had been imprisoned since one year ago on charge of “spreading propaganda against the state.”
Read More »Dozens Die From Alcohol Poisoning In Iran
RFL/RE -At least 24 people have died in Iran in several separate incidents after drinking bootleg alcohol, Iranian news agencies reported on September 29.
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