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VOA – The husband of one of Iran’s most prominent jailed dissidents has strongly criticized authorities for not furloughing her from a coronavirus-plagued prison where he says her health is in danger. In a Thursday phone interview with VOA Persian from Tehran, Reza Khandan faulted the Iranian government for temporarily freeing thousands of common criminals from jails since late February …

Radiofarda – In a tweet on Thursday the White House National Security Council condemned “anti-Semitic rhetoric and threats by Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei against Israel”. “We stand with our friends in Israel and recognize Israel’s absolute right to defend itself,” the White House National Security Council declared. Another tweet that followed quoted President Donald Trump who in March 2019 said: …

AFP -The European Union’s foreign policy chief on Thursday condemned a threat against Israel from Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as a threat to world peace. Josep Borrell, the EU high representative for foreign affairs, took to Twitter after Khamenei’s comments sparked an angry response from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “I condemn in the strongest possible terms the …

Radiofarda – Following the arrest of a parkour athlete in Tehran, the Iranian capital’s police announced the detention of his female companion who appeared with him in a video and photos seen by the authorities as a violation of Islamic Republic’s dress code and morality restrictions. The police announced the arrest of the young female, but no official source has …

Radiofarda – The head of Ukraine’s investigation team has said that evidence from the passengers on board flight PS752 suggests that something had happened to the plane even before it was hit by the missiles fired at it by the Revolutionary Guard. Alexander Ruvin, Director of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensics, says evidence shows that passengers were out of …