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Iran-HRM – – The Revolutionary Court in Iran’s Semnan Province has sentenced three members of the Bahai religious minority to a total of 20 years in jail on national security charges. The Bahais, Ardeshir Fanaian, Yalda Firouzian and Behnam Eskandarian, has been charged with “acting against national security through propagation and organized activities” and “membership in illegal groups acting against …

Al-Arabia – Iraqi security forces fired tear gas to force protesters away from Baghdad’s Green Zone Saturday ahead of a planned parliament session, AFP correspondents said, a day after 42 demonstrators were killed. In the capital and across the south, protesters died Friday from live rounds, wounds sustained from tear gas canisters and in fires set to government and paramilitary …

Radiofarda – Saudi Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Adel al-Ahmad al-Jubeir has said in an interview with French newspaper Liberation on Thursday October 24 that “Those in the Iranian administration who talk about negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia have no power.” “Members of the Iranian administration talk about negotiations but they do not have any power. On the other hand, …

RFL/RE – French newspaper Le Figaro and Reuters have reported that Tehran has since the summer been incarcerating Roland Marchal, a senior researcher from Science-Po university.Both news outlets reported the detention on October 16, a situation that could complicate French President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to ease tensions between the United States and Iran.French Foreign Ministry officials didn’t respond to a …

Radiofarda – The Islamic Republic President Hassan Rouhani has linked the widespread anti-regime protests in late 2017, early 2018, to Washington’s decision to drop the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers, in May 2018. Speaking at a news conference, Rouhani said on Monday, October 14, that since December 2017, Iran has found itself …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization Chief Ali Akbar Salehi says Iran will soon introduce a set of 30 modern IR-6 centrifuges within the next 2 or 3 weeks as the latest development in its nuclear program. Salehi added that a new part of the heavy water reactor in Arak in central Iran will become operational within the next two …

alarabiya – The top UN official in Iraq deplored five days of violence during protests that has killed nearly 100 across the country and wounded thousands, saying “this must stop.” “Five days of reported deaths and injuries; this must stop,” Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, the special representative of the UN secretary general in Iraq, said in a tweet. According to the Iraqi …

Radiofarda – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday confirmed reports that he evaded a proposed telephone conversation with Donald Trump, saying that Trump’s motive was to use the call for his domestic political needs. At the same time, Rouhani thanked French President Emmanuel Macron for his efforts to try to arrange the doomed phone meeting adding, “Neither Paris nor Tehran …

Radiofarda – Iran says a reported European Union threat to drop the 2015 nuclear deal and reimpose previous sanctions is a joke and dead on arrival. Speaking to reporters at his weekly press conference on Monday, September 30, Abbas Mousavi referred to a report from The Guardian saying that the European Union has privately warned the Islamic Republic that it …

Radiofarda – Security forces have arrested nine people connected to a whistleblower page on social media platform Telegram, the chief of Police in the province of Kurdistan, western Iran, says. Fifteen natural and ten legal persons have sued the managers of the page, named “A’MAK”, (Persian acronym for “disclosure of the performance of Kurdestan’s managers”), the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps …