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Radiofarda – Iran’s state TV, which is controlled by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has been collecting advertising revenues in hard currency on YouTube, Shahrvand newspaper reported in Tehran on June 25. Based on the report, the Iranian state TV IRIB (The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting), has begun showcasing, marketing and webcasting its TV sitcoms and some other popular programs …

RFL/RE – A British-Iranian woman who is serving a five-year prison term in Iran on sedition charges that she denies has ended a 15-day hunger strike, her husband said. A file photo of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe with her husband Richard Ratcliffe and daughter Gabriella. Richard Ratcliffe told the BBC on June 29 that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 40, had eaten some …

RFL/RE – The U.S. Senate failed to pass legislation that would have barred President Donald Trump from launching an attack on Iran without first obtaining congressional approval.Senators voted 50-to-40 in the June 28 vote, falling short of the 60-vote minimum in the Republican-controlled Senate to pass the amendment.The measure was attached to the annual policy bill known as the National …

VOA – European countries offered too little at last-ditch talks on Friday to persuade Iran to back off from its plans to breach limits imposed by its nuclear agreement with world powers, Iran’s envoy said. A week after Washington abruptly called off airstrikes on Iran, diplomats said Tehran was days away from exceeding the maximum amount of enriched uranium allowed under its …

Radiozamaneh 0 The green movement predominantly – but by no means exclusively – was composed of urban middle classes who supported reformists in the 2008 election. This stands in high contrast to the uprisings of lower classes and the subalterns in January 2018 who “had nothing to lose but their chains”. In distinction to the ‘decentralized’, ‘headless’, form of the January 2018 uprisings, …