Social and Political

Radiofarda – At an outreach center in southern Tehran, teenagers are learning to be journalists, while upstairs their mothers are fine-tuning their sewing skills and rushing to fill an order for hospital uniforms.

Reuters – Iran dismissed reports on Monday of a suicide bomb threat at its embassy in Ankara, Iranian state television said, after a Turkish newspaper reported a planned attack on the building.

Radiofarda – Almost ten months after the detention of several Iranian environmentalists, the spokesman of the Islamic Republic’s judiciary says that no indictment has been issued for them.

Radiofarda – Iran’s judiciary spokesman is saying a court has sentenced a dual national man to eight and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of infiltration of important governmental bodies.

Iran-HRM – On World Day Against Death Penalty Iranian political prisoner call for stop of death sentence

RFL/RE – Iranian authorities have arrested a member of the country’s military in connection with last month’s deadly attack on a military parade in the city of Ahvaz, local media report.

VOA — Iran’s president on Sunday tried to downplay U.S. sanctions targeting the country’s vital oil and gas sector that are set to be restored next month.

Radiofarda – One of the hypotheses about the reasons behind the unusual rise in the rate of exchange for the US dollar and other hard currencies in Iran is that the government itself has devalued its own currency rial, as a way of funding its day to day expenses such as paying public sector salaries.

Radiofarda – Several photographers have been arrested in Shiraz, 481 km (298 miles) south of Iran’s capital, Tehran, for posting “obscene” pictures and images described as “modelling” on their Instagram accounts.

Radiofarda – Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency says members of the country’s intelligence service have killed two Kurdish separatists in a clash in the western city of Kermanshah.