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Radiofarda – Seventy-two imprisoned Gonabadi Dervishes in Iran who are on hunger strike in protest to the restraints imposed on Nour-Ali Tabandeh, the leader of the Gonabadi Sufi order, have said that they are determined to continue their hunger strike. The Dervishes began their hunger strike two weeks ago after the news of the ninety-two-year-old Tabandeh’s refusal of food and …

Radiofarda – A spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has pardoned 32 journalists and students who have been in jail “for security-related reasons.” Gholamhossein Esmaeili, said Khamenei pardoned the activists on Thursday November 14, a day before Prophet Mohammad’s birthday based on a request made by Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raeesi. Pardoning criminals and …

Radiofarda – An Iraqi demonstrator runs as he carries a tear-gas canister during ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, November 14, 2019. People in Baghdad took to Tahrir (Liberation) Square in downtown Baghdad the epicentre of recent anti-regime protests Thursday evening when their football team beat the Iranian team 2-1 in the 2020 World Cup Qualifiers played in the Jordanian capital …

Radiofarda – IRGC Intelligence Chief Hossein Taeb has warned against “infiltrators” entering the Iranian Parliament in the upcoming elections in February, amid tensions between President Hassan Rouhani and the country’s hardliners. Speaking at a gathering of election supervisory boards on Thursday, November 14 in Mashhad in north-eastern Iran, Taeb said the IRGC Intelligence Organization will prevent “Counter-revolutionaries and corrupt individuals” …

Radiofarda – Protesters in Ahvaz in Khuzestan Province and some Ethnic Arab rights’ activists claim Iranian security and intelligence bodies are responsible for the death of Hassan Haydari, a popular poet and advocate of ethnic Arab rights who passed away in a hospital in Ahwaz on November 10. According to some reports that have not been confirmed by Iranian officials, …