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Radiofarda – Iran is to start imposing fines for breaches of health regulations in the capital, President Hassan Rouhani announced on Saturday, after daily coronavirus infections hit a record high this week. Iran has previously held back from using fines to enforce mask wearing in public and other health protocols, but they will now be imposed in the capital Tehran, …

Radiofarda – The Saudi-led coalition said on Saturday it intercepted and destroyed two explosive-laden drones launched towards Saudi Arabia by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis. There was no comment from the Houthi movement about the two incidents reported by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, which cited a coalition spokesman. Yemen has been locked in conflict since 2014 when the Houthis seized Sanaa, …

Al-Arabia – A fire broke out at a metro station in the west of the Iranian capital on Saturday, the semi-official Mehr news agency said, adding that there were no casualties. A spokesman for the state emergency services, Mojtaba Khaledi, said no trains were damaged in the 7.45 a.m. blaze at the Ekbatan station but did not immediately specify its …

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, a master of traditional Iranian music hailed as one of NPR’s 50 Great Voices of all Time, died at age 80 on Thursday afternoon in Tehran. Four years earlier, he had appeared in front of the cameras for the last time, announcing that he had had kidney cancer for 15 years. Minutes after his death was “announced outside …

Radiofarda – On Wednesday, October 8, Denmark summoned Tehran’s ambassador to Copenhagen, Afsaneh Nadipour, over reports that the Iranian Embassy had allegedly contacted Iranian women living in the Scandinavian country and pressured them to accept divorce terms drawn up by local clergies and Mosque Imams. Iran’s ambassador to Denmark, Afsaneh Nadipour, The summons follows recent reports in Danish media about …