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Radiofarda – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reiterated Washington’s opposition to granting a five-billion-dollar IMF loan to the Islamic Republic of Iran in interviews on April 14. Earlier on Thursday, April 9, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) had urged President Donald Trump to reverse a reported decision to block an Iranian request from the International Monetary Fund for $5 billion …

Radiofarda – Almost five billion dollars of the Islamic Republic’s money is missing, says the Director of the Supreme Audit Court of Iran (SAC), Adel Azar. Based on the official rate of 42,000 rials for one dollar, the Islamic Republic government distributes billions of cheap dollars among local importers to buy essential goods from overseas. Many of these importers are …

Radiofarda – An official of Iran’s Judiciary on Tuesday said prison guards had been involved in the escape of prisoners from a jail in the northwestern city of Saqqez on March 27. In a radio program on Tuesday Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, Spokesman of the Judiciary, said the riot in Saqqez prison “was a unique incident” which had become possible with the …

Radiofarda – In its most recent report on the world economy, the International Monetary Fund has said Iran’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, will decline by about six percent in 2020. This would be the third consecutive annual decline of Iran’s GDP. In its report released on April 14, IMF put Iran’s GDP decline in 2019 at 7.6 percent and in …

Radiofarda – Radio Farda has learned that Iran is pushing Ukraine to sign a memorandum of understanding obliging Ukraine and the families of victims of flight 752, shot down over Tehran, to waive their right to pursue the matter any further through courts. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired two missiles at Ukraine’s flight 752 on January 8 in the wake of …