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Al-Arabia – A United States federal court has ordered Iran to pay $879 million to the survivors of the 1996 terrorist bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia, where US forces lived, according to a law firm press release. An image of a report on the 1996 Khobar bombing in pan Arab newspaper Asharq al-Awsat next to an image …

Al-Arabia – An explosion was heard in western Tehran early on June 10, Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB and the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported, citing social media. However, officials denied there was any blast in that part of the Iranian capital. IRIB said power was cut in the area of the city suburbs where the blast allegedly occurred. The report …

RFL/RE – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has defended a U.S. drone strike that killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani in Iraq early this year, after a UN expert deemed it as “unlawful.” In a statement on July 9, Pompeo rejected the conclusions of Agnes Callamard, the UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary, or arbitrary executions, as “spurious.” He …

Iran-HRM – A revolutionary court in Tehran has sentenced seven political activists to prison.The verdict was issued by the Branch 29 of the Tehran Revolutionary Court headed by judge Seyyed Ali Mazloum. Farangis Masloumi was sentenced to 6 years, after being charged with “assembly and collusion to commit a crime through contacting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)” and …

VOA – Hundreds of Iranian Kurdish members of a Muslim sect seeking to attend the funeral of their leader in neighboring Iraq have forced their way through a crossing into Iraqi territory, exposing a weakness in Iranian and Iraqi border controls aimed at curbing the spread of the coronavirus. Video clips widely shared on social media showed the Iranian followers …