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Monthly Archives: September 2020

CBI Sets Iran Oil Income at $29 Billion

Radiofarda – A report published Saturday by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) says that Iran exported $29 billion of crude oil, gas condensate, natural gas, and other oil products in the previous Iranian calendar year, dating from March 20, 2019 to March 20, 2020. The figure is much less than what Iran exported in the previous year. According to …

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Iran Atomic Agency Spokesman Boasts Of Enriched Uranium Stockpile

Radiofarda – The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) says that Iran has stored more than three tons of enriched uranium, and that the nation is currently producing 250 to 300 kilograms of uranium per month. Speaking to the state-run Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) on Saturday, Behrouz Kamalvandi said that Iran’s enriched uranium production and storage …

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Iran Sentences Iraqi, Iranian IS Teens To Prison Over Planned Attack

RFL/RE – A court in Tehran has sentenced two Iraqis and one Iranian to prison over their participation as minors in a purported suicide mission planned by the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, according to the government-run Iran daily. All were said to be part of a 21-member team that had crossed the Iraq-Iran border some three years ago to …

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The UN and EU’s Silence on Iran’s “Shocking Human Rights Violations”

gatestoneinstitute.org – Last week, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Court issued two death sentences to wrestling champion Navid Afkari, along with six-and-a-half years in prison and 74 lashes, according to Persian-language news broadcaster Iran International. His two brothers were also arrested; Vahid Afkari was given a prison sentence of 54 years and 74 lashes, and Habib Afkari received 27 years and …

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Iran registers highest daily COVID-19 cases in past 10 days

PayvandNews – The Iranian Health Ministry has confirmed 2,152 COVID-19 infections and 117 deaths due to the disease in the past 24 hours.  Iran’s Health Ministry Spokesperson Sima Lari made the announcement on Monday, saying that the number of total coronavirus cases in the country has so far reached 388,810 with the death toll standing at 22,410. A student being …

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850,000 Iranians lose jobs amid coronavirus

PayvandNews – Some 850,000 people have lost their jobs since the outbreak of COVID-19 in Iran until August 1, Masoud Babaei, an official with the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour, and Social Welfare, said on Monday.  Since the first cases of the disease were identified in the country, numerous businesses were affected, 62 percent of which were in the service sector …

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UCIRF demands the release of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee

Shabtabnews – In a series of tweets UCIRF “demanded the release of Golrokh Ebrahimi Iraee, the human right activist and author who was arrested over an unpublished short story criticizing the religiously-justified practice of stoning women to death. Since then, #Iran has only doubled down on this egregious violation of religious freedom.” On this day in 2014, Iranian author @golrokhiraee …

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Either Confess or Die, Agents Warned Award-Winning Student

Radiofarda – An award-winning Iranian student is allegedly under pressure to make a forced televised confession in order to commute his death sentence, his sister says. In a tweet on Saturday, Ali Younesi’s sister, Aida, said that the Ministry of Intelligence agents in charge of investigating her brother’s case gave her brother the option to make a televised confession on …

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Security Official Threatens More Internet Censorship As Iran Moves Towards Intranet

Radiofarda – Abolhassan Firoozabadi, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace (ISCC), says that if Internet platforms are not compatible with the laws and standards of the Islamic Republic, they will be censored. Firoozabadi said on Sunday that filters may be implemented on Internet content “if the platforms do not comply with Iranian law” or “create cultural, social, political …

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U.S. Capitol Hosts Anniversary Event To Commemorate Victims of 1988 Massacre

Radiofarda – On the 32nd anniversary of mass political executions of 1988 in the Islamic Republic of Iran, supporters of an exiled dissident group held a ceremony in front of the U.S. Capitol on Friday, September 4. “Today’s exhibit of pictures of 120,000 fallen for freedom in Iran manifests the Iranian people’s resolve for freedom while urging the international community …

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