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radiofarda – In a statement on Saturday, the Management Center of Iranian Seminaries condemned a cleric who was shown in a video burning Harrison’s Manual of Medicine claiming that “Islamic medicine” has made such books “irrelevant”. The video of the book-burning went viral on Thursday and many outraged social media users strongly reacted to it. Since then several prominent clerics, …

radiofarda – The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Friday extended the time available to discuss ways to save the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran under a dispute mechanism triggered by France, Germany and Britain. Britain, France and Germany formally accused Iran on Jan. 14 of violating the terms of its 2015 agreement to curb its nuclear program, which eventually …

rferl.org – A powerful earthquake has hit the eastern Turkish province of Elazig, causing buildings to collapse and leaving at least 21 people dead and hundreds injured, officials say. The magnitude-6.8 quake struck near the town of Sivrice in Elazig Province — some 750 kilometers from the Turkish capital, Ankara — shortly before 9 p.m., the government’s disaster and emergency …

Radiofarda – After days of defiant statements, Iranian officials have relented to a decision by the Asian Football Federation to send their teams to “neutral” counties for championship games, following the downing of a Ukrainian airliner earlier this month. Leaving aside their initial threat to boycott the Asian Champions League, Iranians backed down yesterday and declared that they had reached …

Radiofarda – Recent reports on social media say the Islamic Republic of Iran has removed the option for “other religions” from the new application forms for the Smart National ID cards. Therefore, in the past several months, Baha’i citizens have been denied obtaining the ID cards. Article 13 of the Islamic Republic Constitution stipulates that “Zoroastrian, Jewish, and Christian Iranians …