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Monthly Archives: 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 after reports emerged its workers had contracted coronavirus. A letter addressed to IKCO workers and managers by the company’s human resources deputy on Wednesday said that production lines would start lowering output in the second shift of the day with …

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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 Foreign Affairs and Security Policy & Vice-President of the European Commission), regarding the Iranian Government’s struggles dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak in Iran. In the letter IOPHR warns the EU that the Iranian ruling government does not seem to pay …

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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 help it fight the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, which has infected more than 10,000 people and claimed hundreds of lives so far. In a tweet on Thursday Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran’s Central Bank has requested immediate access to funding …

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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 do not prohibit humanitarian contributions to ease coronavirus pressure on Iran. Britain, France and Germany offered Iran a package of material and financial support to combat the rapid spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) on March 3 and pledged 5 million euros …

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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 in a list published to mark this year’s World Day Against Cyber-Censorship, celebrated on 12 March. RSF asserts that the Iranian Cyberspace Supreme Council uses digital technology to “spy on and harass” journalists and thereby “jeopardize people’s ability to get …

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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, pointing to the threats of coronavirus and drugs posed to those arrested during the November 2019 protests in Iran and presently detained in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary. Full text of his letter follows: I want to be the voice of my fellow …

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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 to Kyiv for analysis, an Iranian diplomat said. Tehran has also invited other interested countries to participate in reading the data from the black boxes, Farhard Parvaresh, who heads Iran’s delegation at the UN’s Montreal-based International Civil Aviation Organization, told …

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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 attack on U.S.-led coalition forces in neighboring Iraq. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the March 12 strikes near the border town of Albu Kamal were probably carried out by the coalition, which did not immediately comment. Syrian …

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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 report on human rights practices that covers 199 countries and territories. Iran was chastised for its November crackdown on protesters following a government decision to raise fuel prices, according to the report, which covers global rights developments during 2019. Security …

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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 slammed into Camp Taji, a military base north of Baghdad that hosts coalition troops. According to U.S. and Iraqi officials, the attack was carried out late Wednesday by militants using a modified truck to fire 30 Katyusha rockets, 18 of …

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