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Radiofarda – In its latest report on Friday, November 1, Energy Market Regulatory Authority (EMRA)) says that natural gas imports from Iran last August has nearly dropped to one-third compared with the same period in the previous year. The Islamic Republic managed to export only 160 million cubic meters (approximately 5.65 billion cubic feet) of natural gas to Turkey last …

Al-Arabia – The Iraqi Human Rights Commission said on Saturday that 120 protesters in the city of Basra were injured after security forces used live rounds and tear gas. Thousands of protesters were blocking all roads leading to Iraq’s main Gulf port Umm Qasr on Saturday. Operations at the port have been at a complete standstill since Wednesday, after protesters …

Al-Arabia – The recent tightening of US sanctions on Iran has weakened the regime’s grip on Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen, raising the prospect of reform and peace across the region, America’s top Iran advisor told Al Arabiya in an exclusive interview. The Trump administration has imposed a “maximum pressure” campaign – increasing targeted sanctions on the Iranian regime since leaving …

Al-Arabia – One of the Iranian student leaders of the 1979 US Embassy takeover says he now regrets the seizure of the diplomatic compound and the 444-day hostage crisis that followed. Speaking to The Associated Press ahead of Monday’s 40th anniversary of the attack, Ebrahim Asgharzadeh acknowledged that the repercussions of the crisis still reverberate as tensions remain high between …

Iran-HRM – Iranian authorities executed a prisoner on Thursday, October 31 in public in the city of Arak, southwest of the capital Tehran, the state-run media reported. The report did not mention the prisoners’ name but said he had been sentenced to death for killing a security agent. On the same day another prisoner was hanged in the Central Prison …