Radiofarda – Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization Head Touraj Dehghani-Zanganeh says analysis of the data and cockpit talk from the Ukrainian jet shot down by Revolutionary Guard missiles on January 8, 2020 shows the passengers and the crew were not harmed for at least 19 seconds before the second missile hit the plane. Speaking to reporters on Sunday, Dehghani-Zanganeh said the …

Radiofarda – Forty-four lawyers in Iran have urged a prominent Iranian advocate of human rights, Ms. Nasrin Sotoudeh, and other political prisoners to end their hunger strikes and avoid endangering their own lives. The attorneys also demand the release of inmates amid the COVID pandemic. The attorneys say in an open letter that it is logical, humane, and legal to …

Radiofarda – A Revolutionary Court in Iran has ruled against fourteen activists who had protested mismanagement and corruption in the clergy-dominated country last November. Some of the protesters are sentenced to one to five years in jail. Announcing the verdicts, a Telegram channel in Iran reported on Saturday, August 22, that prominent pro-reform political activist, Mehdi Mahmoudian, was sentenced to …

Al-Arabia – The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in Iran reached 20,643 on Sunday, with 141 deaths in the past 24 hours, a health ministry official said. The total number of infections reached 358,905, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported, citing health ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari. Read the latest updates in our dedicated coronavirus section. Lari said more …

Radiofarda – Vice-President Mohammad Baqer Nobakht, who is the chairman of Iran’s Planning and Budget Organization has apologized to the nation for the shortcomings in the country’s economy. Speaking in an interview with the Iranian state television’s news network IRINN Friday night 21 August, Nobakht said that the Rouhani administration has still had not a chance to launch its so-called …

Radiofarda – Interview with U.S. Special Representative For Iran, Brian Hook on the UN arms embargo and the results of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Radiofarda – Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has been under house arrest since 2011 as one of the leaders of Iran’s proreform Green Movement was Iran’s Prime Minister between 1981 and 1989. One can still remember young men and women protesters who were executed in Iran during the 1980s without even establishing their identity. Their pictures appeared in newspapers on the …

(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Saturday said it would be a “good idea” to look into buying missiles from Iran, a day after Colombia said Venezuela was considering such a plan amid growing ties between Caracas and Tehran. Iran in May supplied gasoline to Venezuela to ease chronic shortages, triggering alarm bells in Washington as the two countries …

Radiofarda – Iran’s hardliners have blasted Tehran Municipality for the missing word “Islamic” in a street sign replaced recently. Pictures were posted on social media showing the name of a square in central Tehran as “Republic” instead of “Islamic Republic”. The attacks have forced the municipality authorities to apologize and pledge to punish “culprits” for dropping the word “Islamic”. “Let’s …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will visit Israel and the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) next week to discuss the normalization of diplomatic ties between Israel and the U.A.E.Israel and the U.A.E. announced on August 13 that they were establishing full diplomatic relations in a U.S.-brokered deal, whihc included an Israeli pledge to suspend its plans to annex …