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Radiofarda – Acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security has responded to Iran’s foreign minister on the issue of prisoner’s by telling him to act to take back Iranian citizens he wants repatriated. In recent days Mohammad Javad Zarif and other senior Iranian officials have been raising the issue of a possible prisoner swap with the United States, particularly speaking about …

AFP -Comments last week from an unnamed Israeli defense official that Iran was reducing its presence in Syria sparked fierce debate about Tehran’s next moves and how the Jewish state should respond. Iran policy will inevitably be a top concern for the Israeli government to be sworn in Thursday, a unity coalition agreed after more than a year of unprecedented …

RFL/RE – The global death toll from the coronavirus is some 286,000 with more than 4.1 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 All mosques in Iran will reopen temporarily on May 12 in another step …

Iran-HRM – Two political prisoners, Ebrahim Khalil Sediq Hamedani and his son, Salar Sediq Hamedani, have started a hunger strike in the Central Prison of Urmia since Saturday, May 1, 2020. The hunger strike is in protest to the false promises made by the prison’s warden, Mehr-Ali Farhang. After the outbreak of the coronavirus two months ago, there have been …

Iran-HRM – The regime’s Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order confiscated the home of political prisoners Fatemeh Mosanna and Hassan Sadeghi. The husband and wife have been in prison for the past four years. The Execution of Imam Khomeini’s Order known as “Setad” is under the direct control of Khamenei and seized the assets of political prisoners, religious minorities, and other …