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HRANA News Agency – Abu Musa is Iran’s smallest county and the farthest point on the southern border of Iran. Abu Musa is an island 222 Km from Bandar Abbas (capital of Hormozgan Province) where with the promises of a better life by the officials, people from all over the country have settled in; yet these mostly migrant workers are …

HRANA News Agency – Eleven members of a house church in Isfahan were arrested and transferred to an unknown location. The fate and whereabouts of detainees remain unknown. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran (HRANA), Mohammad Ilyas, Mohsen Khubyar, Edmund Khachatvryan, Mohammad Malek Khataiee, Samaneh Shahbazifar, Arash Ghodsi, Fatemeh Amini, Maryam Zenobi, Amin Ahanin, Hamid Sepidar along with another unidentified person while having gathered to worship were arrested by …

Amnesty – Iranian postgraduate student Hamid Babaei is being denied access to the specialized medical care he needs, including medication. He suffers from recurrent panic attacks and has a ruptured eardrum for which he needs surgery. The authorities continue to deny his requests for medical leave. He is a prisoner of conscience. View report in English https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/MDE1346892016ENGLISH.pdf

ISNA- Iranian researchers at Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, in Tehran, along with scientists at the country’s Pastor Institute have conducted a study on effects of plasma in treating breast cancer. The pink ribbon is a symbol to show support for breast cancer awareness The results of the study showed that cold plasma is capable of killing cancer …

RFL/RE – Iranian wrestler Hassan Yazdanicharati won gold in the men’s 74-kilogram freestyle competition at the Rio Olympics after the defeat of heavily favored competitors from Russia and the United States. Prior to the final match on August 19, American Jordan Burroughs, who won gold in London four years ago and is ranked first in the world, was stopped in …