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Al-Monitor – The recent resignation of Iran’s minister of health, Hassan Ghazizadeh Hashemi, led to many speculations. Officially, insufficient allocations in the next Iranian year (beginning March 21) was cited as the reason, but commentators also referred to factional infighting within the Hassan Rouhani administration as well as shifting interests as a result of renewed sanctions. One hint emerged when a video …

Al-Monitor – An American-born Iranian journalist working for Iran’s state-funded English-language news network Press TV is said to be in custody after landing in the United States to visit an ailing brother.

Radiofarda – Increase in the volume of desertification and reduction of vegetation, combined with other problematic factors, have led to the invasion of haze in most provinces in Iran.

Radiofarda – UN human rights experts urged Iran on Wednesday to grant urgently needed medical attention to two detainees, including British-Iranian national Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who launched a hunger strike over a lack of care.

Radiofarda – Only four months after his Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the revolution’s leader Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini took the first step to set up a “special clerical court” to deal with those whom he called “corrupt clerics.”