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Radiofarda – For Iran 2018 was a year marked by real threats from within and perceived threats from outside coupled with an economic crisis highlighted by a constantly rising double-digit inflation, unemployment, widespread financial corruption, mismanagement, and lack of trust in the country’s inefficient banking system.

Radiofarda – The research center of Iran’s Parliament (Majles) has warned against “uncontrollable inflation” before the end of the current Iranian year in late March.

Radiofarda – Hundreds of university students in Tehran gathered on Saturday to express their anger at a bus crash that killed and injured dozens of their peers on December 25.

Radiofarda – Firebrand cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda says if Tehran joins international conventions against money laundering and funding terrorism it will pave the way for “Sedition 2019”; a new codename for hardliners to raise alarm about a perceived U.S. threat to topple Iran’s rulers.

Al-Arabia – Although they are not allowed to study in their mother tongue, a video of female Arab students in Ahwaz dancing to an Arabic song at their school surfaced on social media, which grabbed the attention of many as it was seen as a challenge to the authorities who ban singing and dancing in public to begin with.