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Radiofarda – The Turkish Defense Ministry is claiming that a soldier has been killed on its border after gunfire from Iran. In statement released by the ministry Turkey alleges that, one soldier was killed and two other soldiers were lightly wounded. The incident was supposed to take place in the eastern Van province near border town of Caldiran. Iran has …

Radiofarda – In a letter to the Islamic Republic head of the judiciary, political prisoner Farhad Maysami, has protested against the appointment of a new warden for Tehran’s notorious prison, Evin. Explicitly accusing the newly appointed warden of “violating prisoners’ rights” in an “unprecedented manner,” Maysami has called upon Ebrahim Raeesi (Raeisi) to dismiss Gholamreza Ziyaee. The new warden Ziyaee …

Radiofarda – Japan has decided to dispatch its own self-defence troops to the Strait of Hormuz area instead of joining the U.S.-coalition to protect merchant vessels passing through key Middle Eastern waterways, the Asahi newspaper reported. The decision is in line with a previous Japanese media report that Japan would not join its most important ally in the security mission …

Radiofarda – Nobody can imagine how I loved Iran, but I will never go back to the country, says a Russian journalist who was detained October 2 after arriving in Iran. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Intelligence agents stormed her room in a hotel in Tehran and took her away. During her arrest, Yulia Yuzik was given only one minute …

Radiofarda – Iran’s powerlifting silver medalist in Asia, Amir Mohammad Shahnavazi says, he has decided not to return to his country and will stay in France in protest to corruption. In a video published on Shahnavazi’s Instagram account, he has argued that since several officials of the Islamic Republic are “incompetent” and “thieves”, “eating away Iran, like leprosy,” he has …