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Radiofarda – Iranian hardliners have launched a campaign against President Hassan Rouhani’s former aide in women’s and family affairs for “promoting homosexuality” by posting the U.N. “International Day of Families” poster on social media. On May 15 Ms. Shahindokht Molaverdi, an academic and a defender of women’s rights within the boundaries of Islam, reposted the U.N. poster that depicts various …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei says the United States will be “expelled from Iraq and Syria,” adding that “The U.S. government’s long-term performance has led to abhorrence by a major part of the world.” Khamenei’s remarks came during a virtual meeting via video teleconference on Sunday May 17 with a group of students and the members of student …

Radiofarda – Buenaventura is one of the most violent and poorest cities in Colombia. In one of the most dangerous neighborhoods, a music sang by children voices is wafting from a house with a big sign saying Mezquita in front of it. It is a mosque and a headquarters of the local Shia Muslim community led by Sheikh Munir Valencia, a Colombian …

Iran-HRM- Esmail Abdi, former secretary general of the Teachers Trade Union, has been returned to Evin Prison on a new ten-year sentence on trumped up charges. Esmail Abdi only had a few months left to finish his six-year sentence. In mid-March, he went on furlough after the coronavirus outbreak, and should have been granted early freedom. Ironically, the Judiciary hastily …

VOA – Iran is warning the United States against threatening its tankers carrying fuel to Venezuela, where gasoline and oil are in desperately short supply despite Venezuela being a major oil production center.  As many as five Iranian ships loaded with gasoline are believed to be on their way to the South American country.  U.S. sanctions forbid Iran from selling oil and the U.S. is also pressuring all countries against supplying fuel to Venezuela, as part of Washington’s efforts to drive President Nicolas Maduro from power.  Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif wrote a letter Sunday to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres about Tehran’s concerns over whatever action the …