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RFL/RE – Iran is facing a major crisis: Its kids enjoy frolicking to banned music despite years of state indoctrination and denunciation.Amateur video posted online showing Iranian schoolchildren dancing to a song by a U.S.-based underground rap singer has angered conservatives.The critics include a deputy speaker of parliament, Ali Motahari, who has said the schools’ principals should be fired and the …

VOA – U.S. sanctions are biting harder into the Iranian economy, with new signs that Iran’s key oil exports are faltering, while its trade figures with Europe’s biggest economy and with the United States are shrinking. U.S. news service Bloomberg said it has compiled tanker tracking data showing that no oil tankers had been seen leaving Iran’s oil terminals for foreign ports …

VOA – The United States military is once again increasing its arsenal in the Middle East to counter Iranian threats, announcing Friday the movement of a Patriot missile battery and the USS Arlington landing platform dock ship used in amphibious assaults. The move comes a day after The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier strike group and four B-52 bombers arrived …

VOA – Iran’s semi-official Tasnim news agency has quoted a top commander in Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as saying Tehran will not negotiate with the United States. The statement follows U.S. President Donald Trump’s indirect invitation to Iranian leaders to give him a call. Worshippers chant slogans against the United States and Israel during a rally after Friday prayers in Tehran, …

Iran Human Rights (IHR) – Four prisoners were executed for drug-related charges at Arak prison on April 29, 2019. IHR can confirm the execution of four prisoners at Arak Central Prison for drug-related charges on April 29, 2019. The news first published by Javaneha Website and IHR could independently confirm it. The four executed prisoners have been identified as Hamidreza …