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Al-Arabia – Iran refrained from shooting down a US plane with 35 people on board that was accompanying the downed drone in the Gulf, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Friday.Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace division, was quoted as saying by Tasnim news agency: “With the US drone in the region there was also an American P-8 …

Iran-HRM – The death sentences of five inmates including a woman were carried out Wednesday morning, June 19, 2019. The woman hanged in Gohardasht Prison, a.k.a Rajai-Shahr, was the 89th woman executed during Rouhani’s term in office since 2013. Fatemeh Nassiri had been in jail since 11 years ago when she undertook the responsibility of a murder committed by her son. She had …

RFL/RE – Iran says it has “indisputable” evidence that an unmanned U.S. surveillance drone it shot down on June 20 violated Iranian airspace. Iran’s Foreign Ministry made the statement on June 21, just hours after U.S. media reported that President Donald Trump had approved and then canceled retaliatory military strikes against Iran. Meanwhile, the U.S. envoy on Iran, Brian Hook, …

RFL/RE – Iran warned on June 17 that it would further reduce its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement it made with world powers — which has significantly limited Iran’s sensitive nuclear activities in exchange for relief from economic sanctions. The announcement was expected, as Iranian President Hassan Rohani had said in May that Tehran would scale down its …

VOA — National security officials in Washington are declining comment on media reports that U.S. President Donald Trump approved military strikes against in Iran Thursday but then pulled back from launching them for unknown reasons. Trump initially authorized attacks on a handful of Iranian targets, such as radar and missile batteries, as first reported by The New York Times. The …