Radiofarda – Israel says it has successfully tested the country’s advanced missile defense system capable of defending against ballistic missile threats outside the atmosphere.

Radiofarda – Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International’s researcher on Iran has characterized the second arrest of two labor activists in Iran as an attempt to create an atmosphere of fear and panic to prevent pro-labor activism.

Radiofarda – Almost four decades after the Islamic Revolution heralded an era of equality for all Iranians, Sunnis are still suffering from discrimination, says the Friday Prayer Leader of the city of Zahedan, Molavi Abdol-Hamid.

Al-Arabia – Iran failed to find any buyers on Monday, in its latest attempt to sell oil to private companies for export on the stock exchange, the ISNA news agency reported, in a setback to Tehran’s efforts to bypass US sanctions.

Al-Arabia – Poland’s Deputy Foreign Minister Maciej Lang met in Tehran on Monday with his Iranian counterpart in an effort to solve a dispute over a conference his country is to host.

Al-Arabia – The death toll from Israel’s latest bombardment of military targets in Syria rose from 11 to 21, a war monitor said Tuesday, adding that most of those killed were Iranian.

Iran-HRM  – With the public outcry over torture in Iran’s detention centers, Farangis Mazloumi mother of political prisoner Soheil Arabi, recounts her experience of daily torture saying she is being tortured every day and every night.

RFL/RE – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has condemned the “opaqueness” surrounding the detention of a U.S.-born Iranian television anchor in the United States, and called on U.S. authorities to guarantee the journalist’s fundamental rights.

RFL/RE – Iran has not been invited to a global conference on the Middle East in Warsaw next month and Russia has declined the invitation, Poland’s foreign minister says.

Radiozamaneh – Iranian labor Activist Esmail Bakhshi has been arrested again by Islamic Republic authorities after having spoken out against being tortured and abused in the course of his previous arrest. On 20 Jan, hours before Bakhshi’s arrest, Iranian security forces raided the house of civil activist, Sepideh Gholian, who was initially arrested along with Bakhshi in November and was …