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Radiofarda – According to a Defense Department press release of May 23 the United States military conducted training exercises with live ammunition in the Persian Gulf in recent days. The training that took place between May 19 and 21 and integrated Marine AH-1W Super Cobra helicopters with the U.S. Air Force AC-130W gunships and U.S Navy ships. “This was a great opportunity …

Iran-HRM – Female political prisoners in Iran go through vicious tortures and interrogations. Following are the cases of Saba Hamadi and Fahimeh Esmaili Badvi. This is but a small part of the atrocities done to female political prisoners in Iran. Saba Hamadi (Abyat), daughter of Zeidan, born in 1998 in Susangerd, Khuzestan Province, is married and a student of Agricultural …

HRANA – Elaheh Samizadeh, a Baha’i citizen, has been sentenced to one extra year of imprisonment and two years suspension from holding all governmental and public jobs by Branch 105 of Shiraz Criminal Court. Ms. Samizadeh had previously been sentenced to six years in prison by Branch One of Shiraz Revolutionary Court, presided over by Judge Seyed Mahmoud Sadati, on …

RFL/RE – The global death toll from the coronavirus is almost 350,000 with more than 5.4 million infections confirmed, causing mass disruptions as governments continue to try to slow the spread of the new respiratory illness. Here’s a roundup of COVID-19 developments in RFE/RL’s broadcast regions. Iran Iran has reopened its religious shrines, some two months after closing them due …

VOA – The lead vessel of a five-tanker flotilla carrying fuel supplied by Iran to gasoline-thirsty Venezuela was set to arrive at one of state-run PDVSA’s ports Sunday, escorted by the military, according to Refinitiv Eikon data and Venezuelan officials. Iran is providing Venezuela with 1.53 million barrels of gasoline and components in a move criticized by U.S. authorities as …