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Month: March 2020

Iran’s leading carmaker IKCO halts production due to coronavirus

PayvandNews - Iran's leading car manufacturer the Iran Khodro Company (IKCO) has decided to halt production at all its plants…

Iranian officials continue to encourage social and religious gatherings despite pandemic Coronavirus outbreak

Shabtabnews - On March 11th, IOPHR wrote and open letter to Mr. Josep Borrell Fontelles, (Representative of the European Union for…

For First Time In 6 Decades Iran Asks For IMF Loan To Battle Coronavirus

Radiofarda - For the first time since 1962 Iran has asked the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for emergency funding to…

US Treasury Secretary Says Sanctions Not Impeding Humanitarian Contributions To Iran

Radiofarda - Speaking in Washington at House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday the U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Iran sanctions…

Iran Cyberspace Supreme Council Among 20 Worst Digital Predators in 2020

Radiofarda - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has included Iran's Cyberspace Supreme Council among the twenty worst digital predators in 2020…

Coronavirus and drugs, two major threats to November 2019 protesters

Iran-HRM - Political prisoner Soheil Arabi who is presently detained in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary wrote a letter from prison,…

Iran Agrees To Hand Over Black Boxes From Downed Ukrainian Plane To Kyiv

RFL/RE - The Iranian Civil Aviation Organization has agreed to send the flight recorders from a downed Ukrainian passenger plane…

Iran-Backed Fighters ‘Killed’ In Syria Air Strikes After Iraq Base Attack

RFL/RE - Air strikes in eastern Syria have killed 26 fighters from an Iran-backed Iraqi paramilitary group following a deadly…

U.S. Berates Iran, China’s Treatment Of Uyghurs In Latest Human Rights Report

RFL/RE - The United States has singled out Iran, China, Venezuela, and Cuba for their gross abuses in its yearly…

Barrage of Rockets Target Iraqi Base, Killing 2 Americans, 1 Brit

VOA - Two Americans and a British servicemember are dead, with a dozen more wounded, after a barrage of rockets…