Radioazmaneh – Yasmine Mohammed is an Arab-Canadian human rights activist, college instructor and writer. Yasmine was raised in a fundamentalist Sunni Muslim family in Canada. At the age of nine, she was forced to wear Hijab and she was sent to an Islamic school. When she was only nineteen years old, she was forced into marriage with an Al-Qaida operative …

gatestoneinstitute,org – The summoning of Iraqi mercenaries showed that Khamenei isn’t quite sure of the regime’s military and security apparatus and, when the chips are down, relies on his foreign legion. Soon, however, it became clear that “Islam’s bravest soldier since Imam Ali,” Major-General Qassem Soleimani, owed part of his reputation to bluffing and his talent for self-aggrandizement. Western gullibility …

Al-Monitor – Sadaf Khadem had been interested in sports as a child in Iran in the 2000s. She began by playing basketball and then in her teenage years, added a punching bag to the makeshift gym in her family’s garage and finally convinced her parents to let her join a boxing club. Earlier this month, the 24-year-old Khadem won the …

Radiofarda – A noisy fight broke out in the city of Tabriz on Friday, April 19, after the home soccer team lost its second consecutive game that significantly reduced its chance to win the Iranian Premier League Championship. On social media, some reminded that the clash was also fuelled by ethnic divides. Tabriz- Violence at the football stadium in Tabriz …

Radiofarda – God is testing the people of Iran through international pressures, Tehran’s interim Friday Prayer Imam told a congregation in the capital city, adding, “Why are you afraid of the sanctions being intensified? The hell with the sanctions and their escalation”. Tehran’s interim Friday Prayer Imam Kazem Seddiqi. File photo The mid-ranking cleric, Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi (Seddighi), reproached people …

AFP – Iraq will host senior officials from neighbouring countries including regional arch-rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Saturday, as it carves out a role as a mediator in the deeply divided region. The one-day summit will bring together parliament heads from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Kuwait, a parliamentary spokesman told AFP. Iran, one of Iraq’s closest allies …

Radiofarda -AIranian official news agency IRNA on Friday April 19 quoted the Iranian Consulate General in Sulaymaniyah as having announced that the “Iraqi Kurdistan Region has underlined its commitment to Baghdad decision to lift charges on visa for Iranian nationals.” According to IRNA, Earlier, the Iraqi Council of Ministers passed a bill on March 27 to lift visa charges for …

Radiofarda – Iran has discovered the identity of 290 “CIA agents” both in Iran and in other countries, and dismantled dozens of terror cells, boasted Iran’s Intelligence minister on Friday, April 19. Mahmoud Alavi also claimed that Iranian intelligence agents have discovered and arrested “tens of spies” serving at “sensitive centers” of the country, over the last Iranian calendar year …

Radiofarda – Iranian Plant Protection Organization (IPPO) warned on Thursday, April 18, that if the necessary budget for fighting desert locusts is not provided within two weeks, nothing could be done, and a locust breakout turns into a new crisis, alongside the flash floods. According to the government’s official news agency (IRNA), desert locusts from Saudi Arabia have penetrated the …

Al-Arabia – The gunmen who killed 14 members of Pakistan’s security forces in the country’s southwest earlier this week came from Iran to carry out the attack, officials said on Saturday. Some 20 people wearing uniforms from the paramilitary Frontier Corps stopped buses in Baluchistan province, which were traveling along the coast to megacity Karachi, before gunning down the security …