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PayvandNews – Sarasadat Khademalsharieh from Iran claimed a silver medal at the World Blitz Championship on Sunday. Russian Kateryna Lagno won the Women’s Section and repeated her success of 2010. She collected 13.5 points. Khademalsharieh took the silver with 13 points and the bronze medal went to Chinese Lei Tingjie who scored 12.5 points.

RFL/RE – Iranian security forces have detained 10 people suspected of links to a recent suicide attack in the country’s southeast, police say.

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities arrested at least two education activists during a nationwide strike on October 14 and 15. 

Al-Arabia – In an interview with Breitbart last month, Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita spoke of how Iran “infiltrated” Morocco via book festivals and voiced his country’s support of the Trump’s administration policies towards Tehran and concluded with directly requesting help from the Trump administration to face Iran.

RFL/RE = It was supposed to honor Iranians killed during the devastating Iran-Iraq war, but a billboard in the central Iranian city of Shiraz instead provoked mockery and was removed after it emerged that it featured not Iranian but Israeli soldiers.

RFL/RE U.S. President Donald Trump goes before the United Nations Security Council on September 26 to make his case against Iran, one day after urging all nations at the UN to work with him to isolate Tehran’s leaders.

AL-Arabia – Protests renewed in Tehran and several Iranian cities on Sunday evening, marking the sixth consecutive day of protests against the regime’s policies while some violent clashes erupted between protestors and security forces in some cities.

Radiofarda – Days before hosting US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, United Arab Emirates (UAE) has placed nine Iranian individuals and entities on its list for supporting terrorism and transferring funds to the Iranian Revolution Guards Corp (IRGC).

Al-Monitor – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is in Switzerland as part of a European tour that will take him to Austria for negotiations centered on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The visit comes as Tehran is already feeling the pinch after Washington’s withdrawal from the nuclear deal and is awaiting proposals from the European signatories on how to …

Al-Arabia – Just hours after a storage site housing ballots from Iraq’s parliamentary election caught fire, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq has invited on Sunday Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Iranian Supreme Leader, and Qasem Soleimani, senior Revolutionary Guard officer, for an Iftar meal at the embassy headquarters. The Iftar feast was also attended by former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri …