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VOA – Reviving decades-old cries of “Death to America,” Iran on Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the 1979 student takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed as tensions remain high over the country’s collapsing nuclear deal with world powers. Demonstrators gathered in front of the former U.S. Embassy in downtown Tehran as …

VOA – Protests in Lebanon continue even after Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigned last week amid massive rallies that had paralyzed the nation’s capital and spread around the small Mediterranean nation. Citizens mistrustful of the government came out again Sunday to demand a whole new leadership, but supporters of President Michel Aoun also showed up in large numbers to rally …

Radiofarda – For drought-stricken Iran, a second year of heavy rains have brought much needed water but also floods, killing two people. An official of Red Crescent Organization has said that two people died in floods in Torbat Jam township and an official in the norther Mazanderan province reported one person missing. Many roads have been severed by floods and …

Radiofarda – Twitter has blocked the account of Al-Manar TV, belonging to Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah, saying it has not followed its rules. Al-Manar has called the blocking a “political” act. Currently, the page is completely blank. Twitter has also blocked an account belonging to Yemen’s Houthis, called “The Central Warfare Channel”. In August 2018, Facebook and Twitter closed hundreds of Iran-connected accounts, …

Radiofarda – More than 1.6 million Iranians have visited Turkey in the first nine months of this year, according to Turkey’s tourism office. Although this figure is two percent less than last year, but in August and September the number of visitors from Iran skyrocketed. Iranians are the fifth largest national group among Turkey’s foreign tourists. In August 45 percent …