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Radiofarda – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards on Sunday unveiled a new naval ballistic missile with a potential range of over 700 kilometres (430 miles), local media reported, following months of tensions with arch-enemy the United States. The missile, dubbed “Zolfaghar Basir”, is the naval variant of the surface-to-surface Zolfaghar ballistic missile, according to Tasnim news agency. Its range is more than …

Radiofarda – Once again, the dollar’s value has gained momentum against the Iranian national currency, the rial. In another jump on Saturday, September 26, the dollar passed the 290,000 rials mark and sold for 29,3000 rials in the local open markets. In late July, after a few critical days in the foreign exchange market, the price of the dollar reached …

Radiofarda – Days after the United States extended a sanctions waiver that enables Iraq to continue importing gas and electricity from Iran, Iraq announced that three thousand megawatts would soon be added to the country’s power grid. “Iraq will ‘soon’ add 3,000 megawatts of power to the country’s electricity grid as it seeks to decrease dependence on imported Iranian gas,” …

VOA – The United States is threatening to close its embassy in Baghdad amid frustrations over attacks by Shi’ite militias.  News organizations quoted U.S. and Iraqi officials Sunday as saying U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned Iraqi leaders in recent days that the embassy would close unless Iraq worked to stop attacks on U.S. military and diplomatic sites.  Pompeo has not discussed the …

Iran-HRM – Mostafa Hashemizadeh, a student at Tehran University, was summoned Friday to Evin Court to begin serving his sentence of six years in prison and 74 lashes. Branch 26 of Tehran’s revolutionary court had sentenced Mostafa Hashemizadeh, a civil engineering student at the University of Tehran, to 5 years in prison on a charge of “assembly and collusion to disrupt national security.” In …