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Radiofarda – The unconventional pronouncements of a Qom-based senior cleric, Kamal al-Haydari, about Shiite jurisprudence and jurists, have once again infuriated state-recognized “Ayatollahs” and traditional clergies close to the Iranian government. Born in Najaf, Iraq, the 64-year-old al-Haydari resides in Qom, the hub of the Twelver-Shi’ite seminary in Iran. By submitting the issue of “takfir” in seminaries, he has questioned …

Radiofarda – The Deputy Head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Customs Administration, Mehrdad Jamal Arvanqi, says 200,000 tons of rice stored at Iranian customs and ports is currently rotting for lack of hard currencies. Arvanqi announced on Thursday that this amount of rice had been stored in the country’s customs and ports for months. “By not paying foreign currency …

Radiofarda – The life story of a man who built his entire life and world on dancing in women’s clothing is getting the cinematic treatment. Although it is not illegal to dance in Iran the vague laws around “indecent” acts can get a person into serious trouble. “Khoraman,” screened at this year’s Sheffield Documentary Film Festival as “Gracefully,” is a …

VOA – Some of the data Iran used to unleash a deluge of emails designed to intimidate U.S. voters just weeks before the country’s presidential election came directly from one state’s voter registration database. U.S. officials confirmed the finding late Friday in an alert issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), …

VOA – An Iranian teachers union leader, who has been jailed in Iran since 2016 and whose prison term was recently extended by a decade, is receiving inadequate medical treatment for severe pain, according to his wife. In a Tuesday interview with VOA Persian from her home in Tehran, the wife of Esmail Abdi said the dissident told her about …