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Al-Monitor – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addressed Iranians for the first time since March 22, which marked the Iranian New Year, or Nowruz. In his live speech today, on the occasion of the birth of Imam Mahdi, Khamenei spoke about the country’s efforts to combat the coronavirus. Khamenei said that the efforts of health care workers who worked through the …

Al-Monitor – Amid fears that the coronavirus could be running rampant throughout Iran’s jails, another UK resident has been released temporarily from the country’s most notorious prison. “Aras Amiri who has been unjustly imprisoned in Iran’s Evin Prison since 2018 … has been temporarily released on furlough,” Amnesty International UK board director Daren Nair tweeted today. “The Iranian authorities must let her …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a speech on Thursday said the coronavirus situation should not cause distraction from “enemy plots”. “The [world] arrogance is an enemy of the principle of the Islamic Republic. What some people think – that they will not be hostile if we do not show hostility – is not a sound judgement,” the …

Radiofarda – A team of American experts says it has uncovered a previously unknown Islamic Republic nuclear weapons development site in Iran. The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) called on Tehran on April 8 to acknowledge the previously undisclosed site to international inspectors. Founded in 1993, the Institute for Science and International Security is led by former United …

Radiofarda – Central Bank of Iran (CBI) Governor says Luxembourg has unfrozen 1.6 billion dollars of Iran’s assets despite an attempt by victims of terror to get the funds as compensation. Abdolnasser Hemmati said on Wednesday, April 8, Tehran thwarted Washington’s efforts to seize and transfer the CBI’s funds out of Europe. However, the case mentioned by Hemmati is related …