Radiofarda – Syrian air defenses on Monday intercepted a new Israeli “aggression” above the capital Damascus, state media said, in the latest wave of attacks that Western intelligence sources have said were Israeli strikes on a major Iranian-backed ammunition depot on the edge of the capital. State television said Israeli missiles had flown over the Syrian Golan Heights where they …

Radiofarda – Iran’s national currency gained 10 percent of its value back on Monday after several deep plunges in the past few days following the injection of $300 million into the market for businesses seeking imports. The rial hit an all-time low of 260,000 against the U.S. dollar on Sunday with an almost 10,000 rial drop in one day at …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Oil Minister on Monday told reporters that all foreign countries are now refusing to sign agreements with Iran in all areas due to the U.S. sanctions and are even discontinuing existing contracts. Bijan Namdar-Zanganeh said a previously negotiated agreement with India to develop the offshore Farzad gas field shared with Saudi Arabia in the Persian Gulf, has …

Radiofarda – The Iranian Judiciary has announced on Monday July 20 that Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, a young man who was in jail on charges of “spying for the CIA and Mossad” has been executed. The news of the execution comes while the Judiciary appeared to have listened to calls by hundreds of thousands of people on social media for stopping …

Radiofarda – Days before the 26th anniversary of the Buenos Aires AMIA Jewish center bombing that killed 85 in 1994, Jewish community leaders called for international action against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah. The head of the AMIA Jewish Center in Buenos Aires, Ariel Eichbaum, said Friday, July 17, the international community should investigate the massacre …

VOA – Beijing is reported to be in the final stages of approving a $400 billion economic and security deal with Tehran, which some analysts say could give China a vast and secure source of energy and a strategic foothold in the Gulf.  Iran’s foreign ministry has confirmed that the potential agreement includes significant infrastructure investments and closer cooperation on …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – While the Islamic Republic’s judiciary claims that Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd was executed this morning, independent sources confirm that the prisoner accused of “espionage” was executed on Saturday morning and that he was repeatedly tortured in detention by Hezbollah forces in Lebanon and the Intelligence Organisation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). According to Iran Human …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Some U.S. media and politicians have been expressing their indignation of late over Russia’s alleged offers of bounty money to the Taliban for every American soldier it kills in Afghanistan…. These same journalists and political figures, however, never raise a similar accusation against the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has been offering the Taliban bounty money to kill …

Al-Monitor – Voice recordings stored in black boxes on board a Ukrainian airliner shot down by Iran in January have been recovered, France’s aviation safety authority said today. The data successfully downloaded from the black boxes includes recordings of the pilots speaking, France’s Bureau for Civil Aviation Safety Enquiry (BEA) said, according to Reuters. Iran shot down Ukrainian Airlines flight 752 …

PayvandNews – Iranian health officials have tried to play down President Hassan Rohani’s estimate that as many as 25 million Iranians could have been infected with the coronavirus since the beginning of the outbreak. Rohani on July 18 cited a new study by the Health Ministry in offering the unprecedentedly high number of 25 million coronavirus cases. Iran’s population is …