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CHRI – Agents of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Intelligence Organization arrested at least 11 Arab-Iranian volunteers as they were trying to help people in Iran’s flood-stricken village of Gurieh, Khuzestan Province, according to Karim Dahimi, a London-based minority rights activist. On April 7, 2019, nine of them were arrested as they arrived from the city of Mahshahr, said …

Al-Monitor – Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Ahmad Marvi as new custodian of Astan Quds Razavi on March 30. The wealthy endowment manages the shrine of Imam Reza in the holy city of Mashhad. Marvi will replace conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, who ran for president in 2017. Raisi was named as the new head of the judiciary last month. The shrine in …

PayvandNews – More than 350 volunteer groups of people are providing services to the provinces haunted by flood across the country, deputy director for social affairs organization affiliated to the Ministry of Interior has said. Many NGOs and volunteer organizations made great efforts to help flood victims in Mazandaran, Golestan and Lorestan provinces, IRNA quoted Kamal Akbari as saying on …

Radio Farda – The era of the U.S.-Europe dispute over the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) or Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers is over, says an American diplomat, adding, “EU’s new proposal (Special Purpose Vehicle or SPV) for trade with the Islamic Republic of Iran is nothing, but a paper tiger.” In a meeting on Thursday, April 11, …

Radiofarda – Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has written a letter to UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres to complain about Washington’s decision designating the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist” organization. In the letter published in Persian by the official news agency IRNA on Thursday April 11, Zarif has called the U.S. move “unprecedented, illegal and dangerous”. …