Radiofarda – Iran is to build 200,000 residential units in Syria based on a memorandum of understanding signed at a joint economic meeting in Damascus in late January, ISNA reported, quoting an official of Iran’s Mass Housing Association.

Al-Arabia – Saudi King Salman has called for a unified international effort to stop Iran’s support for armed militias, interference in the affairs of other countries, and its nuclear and ballistic programs.

RFL/RE – Prosecutors in Iran have filed a complaint against the minister of communications and information technology for alleged “Internet espionage,” state media report.

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have released a French businesswoman detained for four months, according to local media.

RFL/RE – Landlocked Afghanistan has sent its first export shipment to India through Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port.

VOA —As Iran marked the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution, a white-turbaned Shiite cleric at one commemoration targeted President Hassan Rouhani, a fellow clergyman, with this sign: “You who are the cause of inflation; we hope you won’t last until spring.”

PayvandNews – Iran’s men’s basketball team booked a spot in the 2019 FIBA World Cup with a win over Australia. Team Melli defeated the Boomers 85-74 in Tehran’s Azadi Hall on Sunday.

PayvandNews – Two Persian leopards mated naturally for the first time at Tehran Zoological Garden on Wednesday and will breed by the next 100 days in case of reproductive success, Mehr news agency reported.

Radiofarda – The exchange rate for the U.S. dollar rose on Sunday in Iran to almost 140,000 rials, reaching its highest point in the past three months.

Radiofarda – While the parliament weighs President Hassan Rouhani’s budget for the new Iranian year (beginning March 21), senior officials at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) have complained of the “minimal” budget allocated to the Bushehr nuclear power plant.