Radiofarda – Saudi Arabia owned Middle East Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) will launch a Persian TV channel on Saturday, October 6, Arab News reports.

Radiofarda – The Trump administration is giving greater priority to Iran and radical groups it backs in a new U.S. counterterrorism strategy document released on Thursday that further increases the pressure from Washington on Tehran.

Iran Human Rights –  It has been over eight months since seven women belonging to the Gonabadi order of dervishes (Shokoufeh Yadollahi, Nazila Nouri, Elham Ahmadi, Shima Entesari, Sepideh Moradi, Avisha Jalaleddin and Sima Entesari) were detained in the notorious Qarchak Prison.

Iran-HRM – Employees of Khomeini Hospital sell their kidneys to survive

Iran-HRM – October 5 marks the World Teachers’ Day to honor the services of teachers whose efforts bear the greatest impact on the spirit and thoughts of future generations.

RFL/RE – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, an opponent of gender equality whose establishment enforces discriminatory laws against women, has marked the one-year anniversary of the global #metoo movement by offering strict Islamic dress as a solution to the problems women face in the West.

RFL/RE – U.S. President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has called Iran “the central banker of international terrorism” as he laid out a wider strategy for countering Tehran in the Middle East. 

Amnesty – He was sentenced to death as a child after an unfair trial. We must act now to save his life.

Amnesty – There is a phrase that Soroya, a 24 year old woman from Afghanistan, repeats to herself and her friends, especially on days that feel darker than others:

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA)- The 11-year prison sentences of Afrin Battle detainees Rahim Mahmoudi Azar and Mostafa Ghader Zeinab were compounded Sunday, September 30th by an additional one-year prison term each, ruled in Branch 103 of the General Court of Urmia, on a charge of “crossing the border illegally.”