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Al-Arabia – Iranian paramilitary forces deployed members of its “Al-Sabreen Brigade,” usually tasked with protecting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, on the Iraqi-Iranian borders, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida reported on Sunday.

Al-Arabia – General Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command, has said Iran is central to an “expensive and expansive campaign of malign activity” in the Middle East.

Iran-HRM – A member of Iranian Parliment says 50 percent of the country’s population live in absolute poverty, and the poverty line has reached close to 6 million tomans (about 1.370 dollars).

Iran-HRM – Seven children are thought missing during a recent police raid on an immigrant neighborhood in south of the Capital, yet no government official has taken action to locate them. One of the children Shahnavaz, 11, who was older than the others could find his way back home, but there is no information on the other six.

RFL/RE – The leaders of Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan met in Aqtau, Kazakhstan, on August 12 for what was supposed to be the long-awaited signing of a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea.