By Neda Bolourchi lobelog.com More than a month after protestors first took to the streets across Iraq, Adil Abdul Mahdi surprisingly remains the country’s prime minister. In what has been a movement against high unemployment, poor basic services, and state corruption, demonstrators insist on the removal of factions and political elites that came to power in the years after the …

theguardian.com – Hamid Farahi Alamdari 1962-2018: He was a charmer who spoke seven languages and claimed he had nearly worked with Stephen Hawking – but somehow Hamid ended up living in a Tesco car park and dying alone by Simon Hattenstone and Daniel LavelleCities is supported byAbout this content Tue 12 Nov 2019 06.00 GMTLast modified on Tue 12 Nov 2019 10.47 GMT Shares545 Hamid Farahi Alamdari was …

Radiofarda – The U.S. Commerce Department on Wednesday added more than a dozen companies and individuals to its trade blacklist for allegedly providing material support to chemical and biological weapons activity in Syria and diverting U.S. items to Iran without authorization. The action from the department’s Bureau of Industry and Security bars the firms and individuals from buying components from …

Radiofarda – Iran’s capital Tehran has been blanketed by heavy smug this week, forcing schools to shut down and hospitals have admitted many more cases of heart and respiratory emergencies. The head of Environment and Sustainable Development at Municipality of Tehran says air pollution costs the capital of Iran up to $2.6 billion per year. But other major cities, specially …

Radiofarda – The labor union at Iran’s Haft Tapeh Sugar Mill announced that 1,000 workers gathered on November 13 to protest and demand their unpaid wages. The protest was held at Bazaar of the town. The industrial complex is in the southwestern oil-rich region of Iran near Shush and its workers have been on intermittent strikes and holding protests for …

Radiofarda – Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi says his country believes “political negotiation is the only solution to the region’s problems,” and that Tehran will do its best to make that possible. Mousavi made the remark on Wednesday November 13 in response to a statement by a United Arab Emirates official who has called for reducing tensions in the …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Judiciary, which President Hassan Rouhani has accused of neglecting major corruption cases, announced that it has arrested a number of the employees of the Judiciary’s own Deeds and Properties Organization as well as the chairman of the City Council of Rudehen in Tehran Province on charges of “corruption and embezzlement”. Mizan Online, quoting a statement published by …

Al-Arabia – A member of Iran’s powerful Guardian Council says the Islamic Republic should stop honoring all terms of the collapsing 2015 nuclear deal with world powers amid tensions with the US. Abbas Ali Kadkhodaei says that while Iran has “shown a lot of patience,” it has been more than a year since President Donald Trump unilaterally pulled America out …

RFL/RE – Iran says it has arrested a fugitive businessman charged with financial crimes and accused of ties to President Hassan Rohani’s brother, who has been imprisoned for graft. Rasoul Danialzadeh “returned to the country under the guidance…of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence agents,” judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said on November 13.Esmaili said Danialzadeh was “not detained abroad” and “had accepted to …

RFL/RE – An Iranian citizen has been remanded in custody in Sweden on suspicion of carrying out crimes against humanity and murder in the late 1980s in Iran. A file photo of a protest in Washington, D.C. showing images of the alleged victims of state-sponsored executions of Iranian political prisoners. Swedish Prosecutor Karolina Wieslander said on November 13 that the …