Thursday , 28 March 2024

Social and Political

Bill to restrict consecutive MP terms raises debate in Iran

Al-Monitor – A controversial bill in the Iranian parliament seeks to ban its members from running for office after serving three consecutive terms. Under the new bill, high-profile moderates such as current parliamentary speaker Ali Larijani and outspoken lawmaker Ali Motahari, who have both served three consecutive terms, would not be eligible to run in the 2020 legislative elections. On …

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Zarif criticized for showing ‘weakness’ in proposing Iran-US prisoner swap

Al-Monitor – During an April 29 speech addressing Iran’s police force commanders, Qasem Soleimani of the Quds Force – the foreign operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) –  weighed in on one of the hot topics in Iranian media: direct talks between Iran and the United States. “The enemy [America] wants to drag us to the negotiating table through …

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Khouzestan Province Labor Activists Transferred To Tehran’s Evin Prison

Radiofarda – The labor union for the Haft Tappeh Sugar Mill workers says workers’ representative Esmail Bakhshi and labor movement activist Sepideh Qolian have been transferred from a prison in Ahvaz, Khouzestan Province, to Tehran’s Evin Prison. The union’s page on the social networking platform Telegram reported on Sunday April 28 that the inmates’ dossiers have also been sent to …

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Iran’s Rulers Speak Of More Cyberspace Restrictions As Conditions Worsen

Radiofarda – Controlling social networks at the time of crises is a “must” that should “seriously be considered,” says the head of the Islamic Republic’s Passive Defense Organization (PDO), Brigadier General Gholamreza Jalali. Jalali, who is a Revolutionary Guard general, made the remarks April 28 while visiting Bushehr, the home of Iran’s sole nuclear power reactor, to supervise a drill …

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Soleimani Says Negotiations ‘In Current Conditions’ Would Be Pure ‘Surrender’

Radiofarda – The commander of Iran’s extra-territorial military Qods force, Qassem Soleimani told a gathering in Tehran on Monday that “people believe negotiations in the current conditions is pure surrender and we will not bow so low”. The 62-year-old general also said that the way out of the current conditions is “resistance economy”, a term coined by Supreme Leader Ali …

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Zarif And Bolton Square Off In Separate Interviews On Fox

Radiofarda – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused a group of U.S. and foreign politicians of conspiring to push U.S. president Donald Trump into a war with the Islamic Republic. Zarif said that a “B team”, of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. National Security advisor John Bolton and Saudi Arabia’s crown Prince Mahammad Bin Salman are trying to …

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Iranians Among The ‘Most Angry’ Nations In the World

Radiofarda – “Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?” was one of the questions U.S. analytics and advisory company Gallup asked more than 154,000 people in more than 145 countries to track the feelings and emotions of different nations in 2018. For many, it came as no surprise that the people of Iran ranked fifth among the most-stressed countries …

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Shirin Ebadi Calls Iran ‘Incorrigible’

Radiofarda – Speaking to the Al Jazeera TV network, Iranian dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi has described Iran as “incorrigible,” insisting that the only way toward reform in her homeland is through changing its constitution. The interview was aired less than a week after Washington decided not to extend the Iran oil sanctions waivers. The decision was …

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After Murder Of A Cleric Khamenei Tells Police They Must Stop Illegal Gun Trade

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader on Sunday told law enforcement officials to deal with gun trade on social media, after a cleric was killed by a gunman the previous day. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s official website quoted him saying, “The murderer of the clergyman yesterday in Hamadan had published his photos on Instagram with four different weapons, and it is the …

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Rights Defender Imprisoned In Iran Needs ‘Immediate Surgery’

Radiofarda – Human rights defender Narges Mohammadi who is incarcerated at Iran’s notorious Evin prison must immediately undergo surgery, according to her attorney. Mahmoud Behzadi Rad told the official IRNA news agency that Mohammadi was taken from prison to hospital April 27 and after an MRI exam was returned to prison. According to the attorney, doctors concluded that she needs …

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