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MNA– Chang Wanquan, Minister of Defense and State Councilor of the People’s Republic of China and a general in the People’s Liberation Army will pay an official visit to Iran on Sunday. His three-day visit to Tehran takes place upon an invitation of Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan. Senior Lieutenant General Chang Wan Kwang will meet with Iranian defense …

RFL/RE – Iranian Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami warned U.S. President-elect Donald Trump not to play games with Iran, and said Trump should apologize to the Iranian people for calling them “terrorists” during his campaign. Trump should known that Iranians “will offer resistance against the United States of America until their very last breath,” the influential cleric said during Friday prayers in …

Iranhumanrights.org – Prominent labor union activist Esmail Abdi has been forced to continue serving the remainder of the six-year prison sentence handed down to him in 2015 for peacefully campaigning for teachers’ rights. He was briefly freed on bail in October after going on a long hunger strike. “On Wednesday morning, November 9, (2016), six agents entered the home of Esmail …

Al-monitor – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Oct. 28 in Moscow hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts, Mohammad Javad Zarif and Walid Moallem, respectively, to discuss the latest developments regarding Syria and to coordinate action to resolve the crisis there. The meeting, the latest sign of Russian-Iranian cooperation and coordination on Syria, took place as debate on the nature …

VOA – It is home to beautiful mountains, breathtaking historical buildings and priceless artwork, but it’s also the subject of strongly worded U.S. State Department warnings. For Americans, Iran may not be the first place that comes to mind when planning a vacation, even decades after the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover following the country’s Islamic Revolution. “Death to America!” can …