Al-Arabia – The United States will stay in Syria as long as rival Iran maintains its presence, but the US role will not necessarily involve troops, a senior official said Thursday.
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Iran removes missile strike video threatening UAE, Saudi Arabia before UN speech
Al-Arabia – An Iranian media outlet close to the hardline Revolutionary Guard published a video on Tuesday threatening missile attacks on the capitals of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Read More »Iran Intimidates Striking Truckers; Arrests Dozens
Iran-HRM – As the new round of truckers’ strike in Iran entered its 5th day on September 27, state media are reporting that dozens of truckers have been arrested by the State Security Forces.
Read More »Medical Doctor And Civil Rights Activist Taken To Jail To Serve Her Sentence
Iran-HRM – Mehrnaz Haghighi, physician and civil rights activist, was taken to Bandar Abbas prison on September 22, to serve a six-month sentence.
Read More »Persecution Of Baha’is Continues In Iran, 20 Baha’is Arrested In Two Weeks
Iran-HRM – Persecution of Baha’is continues in Iran, 20 Baha’is arrested in two weeks
Read More »Iran’s IRGC Says It Killed Four Militants Near Border With Pakistan
RFL/RE – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has killed four militants on the Saravan border crossing close to Pakistan in the southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province.
Read More »Israel Accuses Iran Of Having ‘Secret Atomic Warehouse’ Near Tehran
RFL/RE – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused Iran of having a secret atomic warehouse near Tehran in a UN speech that was dismissed as false by Iranian officials.
Read More »Oops! Iranian Billboard Honors War Dead With Images Of (Wait For It)…Archenemy Israel
RFL/RE = It was supposed to honor Iranians killed during the devastating Iran-Iraq war, but a billboard in the central Iranian city of Shiraz instead provoked mockery and was removed after it emerged that it featured not Iranian but Israeli soldiers.
Read More »World Digests Stormy UN General Assembly, Trump’s Tough Talk on Iran, China
VOA – As global leaders digest the fallout from a stormy United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, China has strongly denied accusations from U.S. President Donald Trump that Beijing is trying to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections in November. Meanwhile, the diplomatic tussle has intensified between the United States and other signatories over the future of …
Read More »Mahin-Taj Ahmadpour Ends Hunger Strike after 16 Days
Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) – On Tuesday, September 25, 2018, political prisoner Mahin-Taj Ahmadpour agreed to end her 16-day hunger strike in exchange for verbal commitments from prison authorities to meet her demands for medical treatment.
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