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antheamcintyre – Senior MEPs have launched an urgent appeal to halt the execution by the Iranian authorities of an innocent member of a persecuted religious minority. Led by British MEP Anthea Mcintyre, the politicians are calling on Iran to stop the execution of Yavar Mohammed Salas and order a retrial after he was sentenced to death by the Iranian Supreme …

Radiofarda – Iran’s national currency, the rial, continues its downward spiral, and is approaching 60,000 rials to the dollar.

Iran-HRM – On May Day, when labor rights groups are celebrating across the globe, Iran’s State Security Force reportedly arrested a number of activists in Tehran and Iranian Kurdistan Province, west of Iran. The state police attacked to a May Day rally held in Saghez, Kurdistan Province, injuring Mahmoud Salehi, a prominent labor activist and arresting a number of protesters. …

RFL/RE – A senior Iranian lawmaker has warned that his country will retaliate against what he called Israeli “aggression” in Syria after missile strikes this week killed 26 mostly Iranian fighters stationed at a Syrian military base. “We will respond to any aggression on Iran at the right time and place,” Alaeddin Boroujerdi, chairman of the Iranian parliament’s national security …

Al-Arabia – United Arab Emirates Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said the UAE supports Morocco’s decision to sever its ties with Tehran after it was proven that it interfered in its internal affairs.