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RFL/RE – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Syrian conflict and Iran’s presence in the country will be high on the agenda when he meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on January 29. Speaking to reporters upon his departure, Netanyahu said he and Putin would discuss what he called “Iran’s relentless efforts to establish a military presence …

AL-Arabia – Iranian authorities granted a four-day leave on humanitarian grounds Sunday to Baquer Namazi, the oldest of a group of American citizens known to be held in the Islamic Republic. His lawyer Jared Genser said that Namazi, an 81-year-old former UNICEF official, cannot leave Iran and is prohibited from speaking to the media. His son, business consultant Siamak Namazi, …

Al-Arabia – The Iranian authorities on Sunday released a woman who was arrested in the center of Tehran after she took off her headscarf in protest of the law enforcing women to wear headscarves in Iran her lawyer said, The lawyer Nisreen Stouda, of Iran’s Human Rights Defenders Center in Tehran, said in a statement that her release camew after …

Al-Arabia – The Iranian judiciary has issued a ruling dismissing the case against Saeed Toosi, a favored Quran reciter of the country’s supreme leader, accused of raping 19 children many of whom were his students. An official Iranian media published on Saturday a copy of the Tehran court’s ruling confirming that Toosi was acquitted of charges of sexually molesting and …

Radiozamaneh – It has been one year since the disastrous Plasco Building fire in Tehran and authorities continue to pass on the burden of responsibility to others while the victims of the disaster, namely the workers, firefighters and store owners have received none of the assistance promised by the government. On January 20, 2017 the Plasco building caught fire and …