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radiofarda – Iranian President’s Chief-of-Staff Mahmoud Vaezi on Wednesday said the administration has been informed of the death toll of the November protests but the announcement has to be made by the Coroner’s Office and the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces. Speaking at the sideline of a cabinet meeting Vaezi said the administration has the information but is not …

radiofarda – Iran will support Palestinian armed groups as much as it can, Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Wednesday, urging Palestinians to confront a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. “We believe that Palestinian armed organizations will stand and continue resistance and the Islamic Republic sees supporting Palestinian groups as its duty,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a speech carried on …

radiofarda – A prominent human rights activist, Nargess Mohammadi has made an appeal to Iranian voters from prison to boycott parliamentary elections scheduled for February 21. Narges Mohammadi, 47, is currently serving a sixteen-year sentence for alleged “political crimes.” Ms. Mohammadi has been imprisoned several times, but her last arrest was in 2014 after a meeting with the European Union’s …

radiofarda – The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is urging the Iranian authorities to drop the cases against the editors of three news outlets convicted of defamation and spreading false news. Tehran’s Media Court on February 2 found three editors in chief of the semiofficial ISNA news agency, the Bultannews news website, and the energy news website NeftEMA guilty of …

radiofarda – Iran’s Minister of Roads and Transportation on Tuesday questioned the relevance of a leaked air traffic control audio, which proves Iranian authorities knew a Ukrainian plane which crashed near Tehran on January 8 had been targeted by Revolutionary Guard missiles. Speaking to the Iranian Labour News Agency (ILNA) on Tuesday, Mohammad Eslami said the leaked audio of the …