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PayvandNews – Iranian film ‘Kasco’ by Mojtaba Ghasemi has won the Best Short Narrative award at Full Bloom Film Festival (FBFF) 2016 in the US. The movie received the award on September 24 in competition with 55 other short films at the Short Narrative Films section of the festival. ‘Kasco’ directed by Mojtaba Ghasemi Ghasemi’s production tells the story of Gholam Eshghi, known as KASCO, …

Radiozamaneh – Amir Tataloo, Iranian musician is till in jail after his second arrest on 23 Aug 2016 by Islamic Republic authorities without any clear announcements regarding the charges against him. by: Rouzbeh Hamid Sources linked to Tataloo have reported in their social media posts that the charge against him is “spreading corruption and indecency”. The reports add that he …

VOA – Iranian news reports say Tehran has built a new aerial attack drone similar to a U.S. military aerial vehicle captured five years ago after it entered Iranian airspace from the country’s eastern border with Afghanistan. The semiofficial Tasnim news agency said the “Saeqeh” (“Thunderbolt”) long-range drone is capable of hitting four targets with smart bombs with what it …

RFL/RE – The United States and European Union on September 30 called on Iran to free Narges Mohammadi, a journalist and activist whose 16-year prison sentence was recently upheld by Iranian courts. Mohammadi was arrested last year after launching a campaign to end the death penalty in Iran. She was sentenced to 16 years in prison in May for founding …

Iran Human Rights – Eight prisoners, including a woman, were reportedly executed on drug charges at Darya, Urmia’s central prison (West Azerbaijan, northwestern Iran. . According to a report by the unofficial news agency, HRANA, Iranian authorities hanged eight prisoners at Urmia’s central prison on the morning of Thursday September 29. The report says the prisoners were all executed on drug …