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Monthly Archives: May 2020

U.S. Military Carried Out Live Fire Exercise Last Week In Persian Gulf

Radiofarda – According to a Defense Department press release of May 23 the United States military conducted training exercises with live ammunition in the Persian Gulf in recent days. The training that took place between May 19 and 21 and integrated Marine AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters with the U.S. Air Force AC-130W gunships and U.S Navy ships. “This was a great opportunity …

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Female political prisoners in Iran go through vicious tortures

Iran-HRM – Female political prisoners in Iran go through vicious tortures and interrogations. Following are the cases of Saba Hamadi and Fahimeh Esmaili Badvi. This is but a small part of the atrocities done to female political prisoners in Iran. Saba Hamadi (Abyat), daughter of Zeidan, born in 1998 in Susangerd, Khuzestan Province, is married and a student of Agricultural …

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A Baha’i citizen, Elaheh Samizadeh, sentenced to an extra year in prison

HRANA – Elaheh Samizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, has been sentenced to one extra year of imprisonment and two years suspension from holding all governmental and public jobs by Branch 105 of Shiraz Criminal Court. Ms. Samizadeh had previously been sentenced to six years in prison by Branch One of Shiraz Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Seyed Mahmoud Sadati, on …

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Iranian Fuel Heads Toward Venezuelan Port, More Tankers to Come

VOA – The lead vessel of a five-tanker flotilla carrying fuel supplied by Iran to gasoline-thirsty Venezuela was set to arrive at one of state-run PDVSA’s ports Sunday, escorted by the military, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and Venezuelan officials. Iran is providing Venezuela with 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and components in a move criticized by U.S. authorities as …

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Ukraine Says Those Responsible In Iran For Downing Its Airliner Must Face Justice

Radiofarda – The Deputy Foreign Minister of Ukraine has told Radio Farda Kyiv insists on punishing those responsible in Iran for shooting down its passenger plane in January. As the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini international airport on January 8, heading for Kyiv, two missiles were fired at the plane which crashed near the …

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Iran’s Exports To China Drop 61 Percent Compared With 2019

Radiofarda – The latest trade figures published by China’s customs shows a 61 percent drop in imports from Iran in the first four months of 2020 compared with the same period last year. Total Iranian exports to China in the four-month period reached $2.34 billion. The bulk of the decline is due to a huge drop in Iran’s oil exports …

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Iranian Fuel Shipment Reaches Venezuelan Waters

Radiofarda – The first of five tankers carrying much-needed Iranian fuel and oil products entered Venezuelan waters on Saturday, a Venezuelan government official said. “The ships of the sister Islamic Republic of Iran are in our exclusive economic zone,” Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami wrote on Twitter after the arrival of the first tanker, named Fortune. The fleet is …

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Iran Suffers Huge Reduction Of Revenues From Overflight Rights

Radiofarda – Iran Airports Company (IAC) has reported an 85 percent reduction in overflights by airlines using Iran’s airspace in March-April compared with the previous year. According to Tasnim News Agency, IAC has reported that in the period between March 21 to April 20 the number of international flights passing over Iran has dropped from 33,189 in the previous year …

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