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U.S. Attempts To Win More Support With Streamlined Bid To Extend Iran Arms Embargo

Radiofarda – The United States streamlined its bid on Tuesday to get the U.N. Security Council to extend an arms embargo on Iran, a move that could win Washington more support in the 15-member body but is unlikely to overcome opposition by veto-powers Russia and China. The new text, seen by Reuters, is just four paragraphs and would extend a …

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Explosions Hit US Coalition Supply Convoys In Iraq – Sources, Military

Radiofarda – At least two explosions have hit convoys supplying U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq in the last 24 hours, security sources said, the first on Monday evening near the southern border with Kuwait and the second on Tuesday north of Baghdad. The explosions, which caused no casualties but did some material damage, are the latest in a string of …

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Former Lawmaker Arrested For Massive Corruption Involving Iran Parliament Speaker

Radiofarda- Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Esmaili on Tuesday announced that a former lawmaker has been arrested in connection with a massive corruption case in which the current Parliament Speaker Mohammad-Baqer Qalibaf allegedly paid 650 billion rials (around $25 million at the time) in bribes. Esmaili did not disclose the name of the lawmaker or his role in the corruption case. The …

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Warrior, Interrogator, Artist; The Man Who Leads IRGC’s Cultural Onslaught

Radiofarda – Owj Arts and Media Organization is one of many institutions affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), aiming at propagation of its hardliner ideology and shaping Iran’s culture to fit the agenda of the Islamic Republic. Ehsan Mohammad-Hasani head of Owj Cinematic organization (C) alongside with IRGC’s commanders during the referral ceremony of IRGC’s Commander in Cheif, April 24, …

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New Conviction against Imprisoned Labor Leader Upheld to Keep Him Behind Bars

CHRI – The prominent labor activist Jafar Azimzadeh, who should have been released from prison in February 2020 as part of a broad state-issued pardon and who has since contracted COVID-19 while he was kept at Tehran’s Evin Prison, has been quickly convicted under new charges, upheld on Appeal, in order to keep him behind bars, the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) has learned. …

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