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AP — Israeli warplanes flying over Lebanon fired missiles toward areas near Damascus early Monday, killing three civilians, the Syrian military and state media said while a war monitoring group said four Iran-backed fighters were also killed. The military said Syrian air defenses shot down some of the missiles in the attack, which happened around dawn. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory …

Radiofarda – A senior Iranian Health Ministry official says the coronavirus epidemic in Iran has still not reached its peak, meaning the number of infections and deaths are still on the rise. Nevertheless, in what has been described by Presidential adviser Hesamoddin Ashna as “one of the most difficult meetings on the situation of the outbreak,” President Hassan Rouhani explained …

Radiofarda – A court of appeals has upheld a one-year jail sentence for a novelist for publishing a novel in France two years ago to avoid censorship in Iran, and publishing articles in a Netherlands-based website. According to an announcement by his brother, the Revolutionary Court of Tehran that passed the one-year jail sentence, had also found the novelist Hamid …

Radiofarda – An official of the Iranian Customs on Sunday confirmed that a fourth consignment of pharmaceutical ingredients purchased from Germany worth around 259,000 euros (about $280,000) has been delivered to Iran. According to the Managing Director of Bazargan Customs Office, the first consignment of the ingredients for use in Iran’s pharmaceutical industry had been delivered on April 3 to …

Radiofarda – The sister of an award-winning university student has released a video demanding an explanation from Iran’s security organs for the April 10 arrest of her brother. Ali Younesi who was the winner of the gold medal in the International Astronomy Olympiad in 2017 in China is twenty years old and a fourth-year physics student in Tehran’s Sharif Industrial University. Twelve …