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Radiofarda – Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday described a U.S.-brokered Sudan-Israel deal to normalise ties as “phoney” and accused Khartoum of paying a ransom in return for Washington removing it from a list of state sponsors of terrorism. The deal agreed on Friday marked the third Arab government after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain to set aside hostilities with …

Radiofarda – Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General is seeking a sentence of “three years in prison” for the suspects involved in the downing of a Ukrainian plane outside Tehran. In a statement, Ukraine’s Prosecutor-General’s Office said that the Kyiv delegation that traveled to Tehran for the second round of talks on the downing of Ukraine International Airline (UIA) Flight 752 is prioritizing justice …

Radiofarda – Iran says the era of oil for goods will officially start within a week, per the Minister of Oil and the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), who announced the government’s plan to exchange oil for goods and expressed hope that Iran’s foreign trade would increase. In a joint meeting with the Ministers of Industry, Mines …

Radiofarda – A young Iranian woman who rode a bicycle without wearing a hijab has spurred angry protests by hard-liners in Najafabad, a conservative city in Iran’s central province of Isfahan. The unnamed woman was arrested earlier this week. Iranian authorities say her “motives” are being investigated. But her current whereabouts are unknown and it is not clear if she …

CHRI – As part of a new policy to isolate political prisoners by incarcerating them alongside common criminals at various prisons in Iran, three women convicted of national security crimes for opposing Iran’s mandatory hijab laws were recently transferred out of Evin Prison’s Women’s Ward, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. Yasaman Ariyani and her mother …