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Radiofarda – I drove past the chancellery on November 4, 1979 and entered Takht-e Jamshid Avenue. One of the modern streets of Tehran where I could get hold of the latest books and publications from the United States and Europe, and call on a few tobacconists who sold quality cigarettes and tobacco, even some nine months after a revolution that …

Al-Arabia – A number of protesters gathered at the entrances of public utility companies in Sidon on Tuesday, forcing them to close for the day, Lebanon’s National News Agency reported, as part of a campaign to pressure Lebanese authorities to meet the demonstrators’ demands. Protesters also blocked off several banks in the city to protest the banking sector’s policies. A …

Al-Arabia – At least three anti-government protesters have been killed in clashes with security forces in southern Iraq, officials said Tuesday, as authorities tried to reopen the country’s main port, which had been blocked by demonstrators for three days. Security and medical officials said a protester was killed and eight more were wounded in Umm Qasr, a key oil terminal …

Iran-HRM – The commander of state security forces in southwestern Abadan city said that 18 businesses have been sealed-off for not observing Islamic rituals and law. The state-run IRNA news agency cited Colonel Seyyed Mohsen Taghizadeh as saying that the monitoring public places police of Abadan is going to implement a plan to ramp up control of businesses. The plan …

RFL/RE – The United States has slapped sanctions on nine people connected to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, among them his chief of staff, one of his sons, and the head of Iran’s judiciary.The U.S. Treasury Department said in a statement on November 4 that Washington also sanctioned Iranian armed forces General Staff. The Treasury’s announcement on November 4 came as …