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Radiofarda – Jailed Iranian human rights advocate Nasrin Sotoudeh has ended her hunger strike due to deteriorating health, her husband Reza Khandan said on social media on September 26. Sotoudeh had been on a hunger strike in Tehran’s Evin prison since August 11 to protest the risk that political prisoners in Iran face amid the coronavirus pandemic. On September 19, she was …

(AP) — The United Arab Emirates didn’t need peace with Israel to counter Iran, a top UAE official said Friday, but he said Iran’s aggressive policies over three decades alarmed many Arab countries and made them look at their relationship with Israel “with fresh eyes.” Anwar Gargash, the UAE’s minister of state for foreign affairs, acknowledged at a virtual briefing …

Radiofarda – About six months after the allocation of one billion euros (about $1.2 billion) from Iran’s National Development Fund (NDF) to fight COVID-19, the country’s Minister of Health has complained that he had only received a “small share” of it. Meanwhile, an official from the Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) has said that “the National Development Fund’s hard currency …

Radiofarda – With the reported death of 175 COVID-19 victims over the course of one day, the official coronavirus death toll in Iran exceeded 25,000 people, the country’s Ministry of Health announced on Thursday, September 24. In her daily report on Thursday, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Health Sima Sadat Lari announced the identification of 3,521 new patients and noted …

Radiofarda – In its latest monthly report, the World Steel Association (WSA) says that Iran’s crude steel production in the first eight months of 2020 grew by more than eleven percent to 18.6 million tons. The growth has occurred against the fact that in May 2019, the United States imposed sanctions on Iran’s metals sector, including its steel, which adds …