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Radiofarda – Iran’s trade with its main partners dropped dramatically in January 2020 compared with last year when U.S. sanctions on oil exports were only partial. India’s Ministry of Economy on March 3 issued its January trade report, which shows imports from Iran dropping by 97 percent compared with January 2019. Last year, India imported $1.2 billion of oil and …

HRANA – Amir Hossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi, Mohammad Rajabi, and Mojgan Eskandari, and Shima R. who were arrested for their attendance in the last November protests were tried on the same case. Mr. Moradi, Mr. Tamjidi, and Mr. Rajabi were sentenced to execution, imprisonment, and lashes. Their attorneys have requested an appeal in the last week of February 2020. It should …

Iran-HRM – The family of Abbas Asgari do not have any information on his fate since he was arrested on December 15, 2019 by the IRGC Intelligence. Abbas Asgari, 34, lived in Zarganshahr of Ahvaz. The authorities’ failure to provide any information to the family has caused more serious concern. On November 16, 2019, Reza Neissi was shot and killed …

Iran-HRM – Saber Rezaii, a wounded protester arrested during the nationwide protests in November 2019, has been detained for more than three months in the Greater Tehran Penitentiary without completing his medical treatment. Saber Rezaii was shot and wounded by security forces in the city of Quds outside Tehran on November 16. He was taken to hospital, but got arrested there. After …

RFL/RE – Iran has closed all schools and adopted a series of other new measures as it battles the worst outbreak of coronavirus outside of China.Health Minister Saeed Namaki told a news conference on March 5 that all schools and universities will remain closed until the end of the Iranian calendar year on March 20, and that checkpoints will be …