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Radiozmaneh – The Iranian female chess grandmaster Mitra Hejazipour who was sacked from the national team for boldly removing her headscarf (hijab) during the World Rapid & Blitz Chess Championship in Moscow, has said that hijab is “limitation” not “protection” as official regime propaganda claims. In an Instagram post on January 28, the 27-year old grandmaster said the hijab is …

Radiofarda – An Iranian military-type drone has crashed in the southwest of the country on Tuesday, near the town of Mollasani in the oil-rich Khuzestan province. There are no reports of collateral damage on the ground according to the local governor and the cause of the incident is not clear. Iran’s Tasnim news agency close to the Islamic Revolution Guard …

Reuters –A group of Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday asked parliament to debate a motion for Iran to quit a treaty governing global nuclear arms control, a move apparently aimed at pressuring European powers to salvage Tehran’s own 2015 nuclear deal. A report on the assembly’s news site ICANA said a minimum number of MPs had signed a request to parliament’s …

Radiofarda – One of the many different versions of the story about the downing of a Ukrainian airliner by an IRGC missiles on January 8, is that the Rouhani administration was kept in the dark about what had happened. This version of the story says that it was only after Rouhani threatened to resign on the third day after the …

Al-Arabia – When mass anti-government protests took over downtown Beirut on October 17, many participants felt that they were reclaiming a space that had long been sterile and off-limits. Now, new concrete blast walls have reemerged to keep protesters out of previously reoccupied space. “At the start, the whole downtown area, was not for the people,” said Roula Abdo, one of …