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Behind the Headlines/september 20

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program: Exclusive news from the land of the ayatollahs including:

Why weeping in Iran’s parliament and in the lyrics of country’s pop music are equally good for the regimes’ stability?

Why the word sewerage must be written with care in Persian literature.

What do we give to the Chinese people in return for their government importing devices to Iran that are used by Muslims to wash themselves after they empty their stools?

And some other exclusive news.

With the hope of a better tomorrow for all.

Behind the Headlines/september 19

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines we will discuss the state of Iran’s oil industries with our special guest, the oil markets expert Sohrab Sobhani, who will tell us if Iran can play a role in future of Asian markets as a growing oil and gas supplier to the world.
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Behind the Headlines/september 18

Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

The latest news of Iran, including the ever-rising cost of living;
How are the economic sanctions affecting Iran’s oil exports?
The outcome of Sochi summit for Iran;
Are Turkey and Russia sidelining Iran in Syria?

Our guests tonight to discuss these topics are Foad Pashaie and Hassan Mansour.
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Behind the Headlines/september 17

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

The latest news of Iran, including the continuation of human rights abuses; hunger strike of several political prisoners; Sochi meeting between Russia and Turkey and its outcome for Iran; child abuse during the Muharram; and answering the questions of our audience.

Human rights activist Farhad Raeesi has now gone on a dry hunger strike.

French trade union workers have written an open letter to Iranian authorities to release the Iranian imprisoned teacher Mr Habibi from Evin prison.

Latest reports suggest that Iran has the largest number of human rights lawyers behind the bar.

Four Iranian Bahais have been arrested in the city of Shiraz, while the persecution of the followers of the minority faith continues in the country.

In the oil city of Abadan unpaid workers have blocked the roads to the city’s municipality by using loaders.

In the absence of Iran the Russian and Turkish leaders have met in Sochi to discuss the future of Syrian civil war and the meeting is yet another indication that the Islamic republic regime is the losing party despite having squandered billions of Iranian people’s money in the conflict, not to mention the number people killed in it.

While the AvaToday news website has published the news of a secret meeting between the US representative with Ghassem Soleimani in Iraq, all eyes are on what president Trump will say about Iran’s regional policies in next week’s UN Security Council meeting,

Please keep you telephone call coming and ask your questions.

How Iran Plans To Bypass The World’s Main Oil Chokepoint

By: Viktor Katona

Iran Tries to Bypass the Hormuz Strait

Global markets have recently gone into overdrive in anticipation of the US-Iran standoff’s outcome. President Trump is building up pressure on Tehran, his latest move was to announce his chairing of a UN Security Council meeting on Iran (the US is holding the council presidency this month), most likely to lambast once more the Iranian regime, whilst the Iranian authorities are reverting to their traditional threat, the closing off of the Hormuz Strait. Yet behind the bellicose façade, under the international radar Iran has been proceeding gradually with the construction of oil export infrastructure that bypasses the potentially fatal chokepoint and gives the Ayatollah regime a viable alternative to Kharg and Lavan islands, which currently account for the overwhelming majority, more than 95 percent, of Iran’s oil exports. Read More »