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Radiofarda – Former Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has once again written a letter to the chief commander of the Quds Force to elaborate on how and why the military unit allegedly paid his former deputy millions of dollars.

Radiofarda – Saudi Arabia’s powerful crown prince will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on March 20, with the two men likely to discuss strategies to counter Iran’s influence in the Middle East and Gulf region.

Iran-HRM – Government bodies in Kurdistan have started measures to prevent Nowruz celebrations in Kurdistan. According to reports, a few days ago, the police base in the Janvaeh region in Marivan summoned the heads of councils and villages warning them that they should not hold special Nowruz celebrations in the villages.

Iran-HRM – Roheih Nariman and Farzad Delaram, a Baha’i couple residing in Shiraz, were each sentenced to five years of prison on charges of “spreading propaganda against the government” and “membership in the illegal Baha’i group” by the 1st Branch of the Shiraz Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Sadati. The couple are parents to a young child and a teenager.

Iran-HRM – Detained minor offender, Mohammad Salehi, who has been sentenced to death and is detained in Mahabad Prison went on hunger strike ten days ago in protest to the violation of his rights in his case proceedings.  He is currently being kept in solitary confinement and was beaten because he refused to end his strike.