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RFL/RE – Iranian President Hassan Rohani says a state of emergency imposed in the country because of the coronavirus pandemic will remain in place at least until the end of January 2021.“We have been in this situation for six months and we must prepare ourselves for another six months at least,” Rohani said in a statement published on his website …

RFL/RE – Reports from Iranian state television say a magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck the province of Kermanshah in western Iran on August 9.The reports say the earthquake was centered in the county of Gilan-e Gharb in the Kermanshah Province.There were no immediate details about casualties or damage caused by the earthquake. Based on reporting by Reuters and Iranian state television

VOA – Multiple sources say a jailed Iranian labor union leader has had his five-year prison term extended for another year by Iran’s appellate court in retaliation for his pursuit of peaceful activism while in detention. Jafar Azimzadeh One source, who is close to the jailed labor leader, told VOA Persian in a Monday interview that the court upheld his …

Radiofarda – Iranian news agencies on Saturday confirmed earlier social media reports that a Lebanese man and his daughter with possible connection with Lebanese Hezbollah were shot dead in their car. The murder took place near the house of Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the former Deputy Commander of Iraq’s Popular Recruiting Forces (IPRF), on Friday night. Al-Muhandis himself was killed on …

Radiofarda – The White House said in a statement on August 7 that President Donald Trump spoke with his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, about the recent explosion in Beirut and the extension of Iran’s arms embargo. In a tweet on Friday, the Special Assistant to the president and the White House Deputy Secretary, Judd Deere, said the two leaders expressed …