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Radiofarda – Lebanon’s heavily armed, Iran-backed Hezbollah group on Friday denied using Beirut’s sea port to import arms in response to an accusation by Israel’s United Nations envoy this week. “I completely deny the claim of the Israeli representative in the Security Council that Hezbollah uses the Beirut port to transfer weapons or weapon components into Lebanon,” Hezbollah leader Sayyed …

Radiofarda – Denmark said on Friday it welcomed a British government proposal for a European-led naval mission to ensure safe shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and would consider a military maritime contribution. Britain has sought to assemble the mission in Hormuz, used by tankers carrying about a fifth of the world’s oil, following Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged ship …

Radiofarda – Iran did not allow foreign participants and guests to attend an electronic music festival, according to the official in charge of organizing the event in late July. Speaking to the state-run Iran Labor News Agency (ILNA), Mehdi Jalali said, “For the first time, our prominent foreign guests, including Joachim Heintz (German composer), Dimitri Papageorgiou (Greek composer), Ulrike Brand …

Radiofarda – Iranians are disappointed with their search for employment, the parliament’s Majlis Research Center (MRC) announced on July 24 in response to latest report by the Iranian Statistical Center (SCI). Earlier, MRC had declared a significant drop in the unemployment rate in the first quarter of the Iranian calendar year (beginning March 21). In Iran, the unemployment rate measures …

Radiofarda – Before Nazilla Akbari can check out the latest offerings on Twitter or YouTube, she scrolls through an array of icons on her smartphone, searching for the right workaround to bypass state censors. It’s a cat-and-mouse game that has become second nature in Iran, where the clerically-led government restricts access to popular social media sites and where U.S. sanctions …