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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 …

Radiofarda – A court in Tehran has sentenced a colleague of the imprisoned Iranian billionaire to twenty years of jail and repaying $1.3 billion of what prosecutors say is government’s embezzled funds. According to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)-run news agency, Tasnim, Alireza Ziba Halat Monfared has also been “fined.” Ziba Halat Monfared, identified by the local news outlets …

Radiofarda – Iran said Saturday it has sent Iraq and Arab states of the Gulf the text of its security and cooperation project first unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani at the UN in September. Rouhani “sent the full text (of the initiative) to the heads” of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iraq and “asked for their cooperation in processing and …