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RFL/RE  – Turkey’s foreign minister has called on Iran to exert pressure on the Syrian government and its allies to stop violating a cease-fire in Syria. “Iran should reassert its authority over the Shi’ite militias and the regime in Syria,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu news agency on January 4. Iran, along with Russia, is a key ally of …

Al-Arabia – Iran has denied that members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, fighting alongside the Syrian regime, will exit Syrian territories. Following a meeting with former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Ali Akbar Velayati, the Iranian supreme leaders’ advisor on international affairs, said reports about the possibility of withdrawing all foreign militias present in Syria after the fighting stops is false “propaganda” …

Radiozamaneh – After the #SaveArash successful twitter campaign in support of Arash Sadeghi, Iranians are now showing solidarity with Ali Shariati, a reformist political prisoner who is serving a five-year sentence for taking part in a protest apposing serial acid attacks against women in Isfahan, Iran. Shriati is objecting his five year sentence which he says is illegal. His demands …

Radiozamaneh – Saeed Shirzad, Iranian activist and member of Society against Child Labour has been on hunger strike for 29 days. He has responded to an earlier plea from the Mothers of Khavaran (mourning mothers of political prisoners who were executed) to end his hunger strike saying the only way he can end his hunger strike is when he can …

Al-monitor – The tensions and clashes between conservative judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani and moderate President Hassan Rouhani have entered a new phase, with Larijani saying Rouhani has been accused of taking money from jailed tycoon Babak Zanjani. AUTHOR Rohollah Faghihi On Dec. 2, at the specialized meeting of the community of supervision and inspection of the government, ministries, organizations and local …