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VOA – A missile fired by Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi group struck a military parade in Yemen’s southern separatist-held town of al-Dhalea, killing at least five people and injuring others, Yemen’s Security Belt forces said on Sunday. No claim of responsibility was made and Houthi media did not immediately comment on the blast or accusation. The Security Belt forces are part …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Three of the Islamist judges known to preside over the trials of Christians are Mashallah Ahmadzadeh, Mohammed Moghiseh, and Ahmad Zargar. The international community needs to consider imposing sanctions on them. Converts to Christianity from Islam, according the Iran’s Islamic law, can face the death penalty. The Iranian Islamist judges generally resort to verses from the Quran and Hadith (Muhammad’s …

gatestoneinstitute.org – International organizations, starting with the United Nations itself, appear less relevant than ever. Classical media have also lost much of their power and relevance…. In the United States, female presidential wannabes dominated the Democrat Party’s list of candidates. This feminization shifts the emphasis away from the traditional goals of the nation-state that highlighted prestige, glory, economic growth, and …

Radiofarda – In an interview with Italy’s La Republica newspaper on December 27, the new EU Commission Chief said rescuing the nuclear deal with Iran is getting harder and harder. “It’s harder and harder, in order to succeed it is necessary for Iran, too, to live up to the accord, something that is in growing danger,” Ursula Von Der Leyen …

Radiofarda – Facing tough questions about hundreds of protesters killed in November protests, Iranian officials have been announcing arrests of “saboteurs” and armed opponents to back-up their theories of foreign conspiracies in fomenting the unrest. The Islamic Republic security forces have dismantled a “terrorist cell,” in Ahvaz, the capital city of the oil-rich Khuzestan province, southwestern Iran, the provincial police …