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Behind the Headlines/June 20, 2018

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines our guests, the former managing director of Taj Football Club, Parviz Sheikhan and Tofigh Momtaz the head of the club’s technical committee will tell us about the way this sport used to be in Iran before the 1979 revolution, and how it has changed under the current regime.
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Behind the Headlines/June 19, 2018

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines:

Mohammad Salas, the Gonabdi dervish, is executed; what next?

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo condemns Salas’s execution;

How true is the claim by Iranian regime’s officials that if the regime is overthrown Iran will become a “second Syria”?

Are the Iranian people not capable of establishing a system of governance that can protect their national interests?

Our guests tonight to discuss these topics are Allahyar Kangarlou and Mohammad Sadigh Yazdchi.
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Behind the Headlines/June 18, 2018


Jamshid Chalangi:

In tonight’s program of Behind the Headlines once again we will look at the continuation of human rights abuses in Iran as the country now has the highest number of defence lawyers in its jails.
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Iranian asylum seeker dies by suicide on Nauru

Australian-run detention centre on Nauru.

Fariborz K, 26, found dead on Friday morning in Australian-run regional processing centre

Ben Doherty and Saba Vasefi

The man who died would be the third asylum seeker or refugee to die by suicide on Nauru. Photograph: Supplied
A 26-year-old Iranian asylum seeker has died on Nauru, reportedly by suicide in his tent in the Australian-run regional processing centre. Read More »

UPDATE 3-India’s top bank to stop handling Iran oil payments, imports may be hit

* U.S. reimposes sanctions after quitting Iran deal

* SBI wants to protect U.S. operations – source (Adds comments from SBI source, BPCL)

By Nidhi Verma

NEW DELHI, June 15 (Reuters) – India’s imports of Iranian oil may be hit from the end of August after the State Bank of India informed refiners it would not handle payments for the crude from November, the finance chief of Indian Oil Corp (IOC) said on Friday. Read More »