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Monthly Archives: November 2019

Why The US Sanctioned Khamenei’s Son

Radiofarda – On November 4, on the 40th anniversary of Iran’s hostage crisis, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) took action against Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff as well as nine members of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s inner circle. Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei a son of Ali Khamenei)R) Vahid Haqqanian, Deputy Special Affairs Office of …

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Erdogan Says He Will Discuss Halkbank’s Iran Sanctions Case With Trump

Radiofarda – President Tayyip Erdogan says he will discuss the case of Turkish lender Halkbank with U.S. President Donald Trump during talks in Washington next week, broadcaster NTV and other media reported on Friday.Prosecutors in New York on October 15 alleged the bank had protection from high-level Iranian and Turkish government officials as it engaged in widespread fraud and money laundering using …

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Israel Urges Pressure On Iran Over Nuclear Activity

Radiofarda – Israel called on European nations to join the US in pressuring Iran on Thursday over its renewed uranium enrichment and what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls a secret atomic warehouse. Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran Thursday in the latest step back from commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal. “Iran continues …

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Iran’s Proxies More Important Than Its Nuclear Program – Report

Radiofarda – A new research paper published by the prestigious International Institute for Strategic Studies says Iran has developed a “sovereign capability to conduct warfare through third parties” in the Middle East.” Meanwhile, the paper concludes that “This sovereign capability is of greater strategic value to Tehran than its conventional forces, its ballistic missiles or even its rejuvenating nuclear programme.” …

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An Entity Offering Services For Polygamy Operates In Iran

Radiofarda – Come and enjoy our free training workshops for polygamy, a controversial Persian ad on Instagram invites users in Iran to try the service. The ad shows a “happily smiling family”; a man, his four “cheerful” wives, and their three joyful children, waving flags of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The owner of the Instagram page is an entity …

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Student demonstrations continue in Lebanon

Al-Arabia – Student-led protests in Beirut continued on Friday as Lebanon remains gripped by ongoing demonstrations. Al Arabiya’s correspondent reported protesters on the street in Hasbaya, southern Lebanon, and the capital Beirut, on Friday morning. Images circultaing on social media showed a student protest scheduled outside the Ministry of Education. Students from universities including the Lebanese American University (LAU) and …

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Iran downs a drone over southern port city of Mahshahr: Report

Al-Arabia – A semi-official Iranian website reported on Friday that Iran has shot down a drone over its southern port city of Mahshahr, without providing further details.The Iran Front Page website did not say whether it was a military or a civil drone. “The downed drone definitely belonged to a foreign country. Its wreckage has been recovered and is being …

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Protesters Shot Dead As Iraqi Unrest Shows No Signs Of Abating

RFL/RE – At least six people have been shot dead by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad and four others were killed in Basra as anti-government protests showed no signs of easing.Police and medical sources said on November 7 that dozens of other people were wounded in clashes as protesters stepped up efforts to force the entrenched political elite to step …

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Twitter Suspends Accounts of US-Based Iranian Opposition Group, Supporters

VOA – Twitter has suspended the accounts of a prominent U.S.-based Iranian opposition group and several of its supporters for alleged violations of the company’s rules, marking the company’s latest intervention in a bitter online feud between Iranian government opponents and supporters. The account of the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC), a nonprofit group that supports what it calls the Iranian …

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Iran 5.9 Magnitude Earthquake Kills at Least 5, Injures 300

VOA – A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck northwestern Iran early Friday, killing at least five people and injuring more than 300 others, officials said. The temblor struck Tark county in Iran’s Eastern Azerbaijan province at 2:17 a.m., Iran’s seismological center said. The area is about 400 kilometers (250 miles) northwest of Iran’s capital, Tehran. More than 40 aftershocks rattled the …

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