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Monthly Archives: March 2019

Family arrested in vicious crackdown on Ahwazi Arabs held in limbo

Iran-HRM – After four months of detention, a family from Iran’s Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority have been held in limbo. Hattab Zaheri Sari and his son and daughter, Amin an Ameneh, were among hundreds of people in Khuzestan province who were arrested during a sweeping crackdown against the Ahwazi Arab ethnic minority in November 2018. Hattab Zaheri Sari and his …

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Flash floods cause major devastation due to Iran’s incompetence

Iran-HRM – Flash floods across much of Iran have killed at least 17 people and injured 74, Iranian state TV reported on Monday. National Emergency Service chief Pirhossein Koolivand said the casualty toll in the southern city of Shiraz was 17 dead and 74 injured, while another person was killed in Sarpol-e Zahab in the western province of Kermanshah, the …

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Israel Candidate Gantz Says Willing to Use Force on Iran

VOA – Benny Gantz, who is posing a stiff challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in upcoming elections, said Monday he would not hesitate to use force on Iran to contain the regional rival. Israel’s Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz speaks at AIPAC in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2019. Share In a speech to the US pro-Israel …

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Iran Floods Kill 20, Iranians Fault Government’s Disaster Management

VOA – Iranian state media say flash floods killed 20 people in several regions on Monday, as Iranian social media users criticized the nation’s president and local authorities for their handling of the disaster. A spokesman for Iran’s Crisis Management Organization told state news channel IRINN that 25 of the nation’s 31 provinces were hit by Monday’s floods. Iran’s semi-official …

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Gender Equality Researcher Tried in Iran Under National Security Charge

CJRI – Gender equality advocate Rezvaneh Mohammadi was tried in absentia in Tehran under the unusual charge of “assembly and collusion against national security by seeking to normalize homosexual relations.” Mohammadi did not attend her trial session held on February 17, 2019, at Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran, and presiding Judge Mohammad Moghiseh refused to allow her lawyer …

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Criticism grows as Iranian authorities respond to floods

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Meteorological Organization has warned of more floods to come in Iran as a number of provinces have been hit by heavy rain and flooding. The massive scale of the flooding and the number of those impacted has prompted the government to call in the military for disaster response. Fars and Lorestan are the latest provinces hit by floods. In …

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IRGC commanders begin to reprimand Iranians for electing Rouhani

Al-Monitor – The cultural adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recently raised the idea of a significant reform in the executive structure of the Islamic Republic: the abolition of the presidency and the reinstatement of a prime minister position. Mohammad Hossein Saffar Harandi said that under such a change, the Iranian parliament would then exercise the authority …

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Taq Kasra, A Sasanian-Era Persian Monument, Partially Collapses

PayvandNews – On 7 March 2019, parts of Taq Kasra collapsed only two years after the completion of a conservation operation by Avers. The Czech firm had been commissioned by the Iraqi Ministry of Culture. Taq Kasra, also known as the Arch of Ctesiphon, is the world’s largest brick vault and the symbol of the Persian Empire in the Sasanian era (224-651 …

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Slow Response To Destructive Floods Blamed On Rouhani Government

Radiofarda – The water is subsiding in flood-hit Golestan and Mazandaran provinces in northern Iran, local news outlets reported on March 23, as dozens of cities and villages have suffered from heavy rains. The Floods might be subsiding, but the political fallout from a slow response by the government has not. It took two days for any meaningful action to …

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Governor Bans Officials From Leaving Oil Province Under Threat Of Floods

Radiofarda – While two-third of the city of Aqqala, in northern Iran, is still submerged in water, the governor of the southern oil-rich province of Kuzestan has banned all local managers from leaving the region. “Since there are some concerns over the basin of Karkheh River, forces have been assigned to check the floodgates, and do whatever necessary to confront …

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