Saeed Mortazavi, regime insider and a notorious persecutor of media and dissidents, has 'disappeared' before serving a two-year sentence.
The United States has warned Syria's government that it is "locked and loaded" to strike again if Damascus carries out chemical attacks.
United States and its allies appeared to take pains to avoid a possible direct military confrontation with Russia in air strikes targeting Syrian government targets, with France saying that Moscow was "warned beforehand" about the operation.
The United States, along with allies France and Britain, launched air strikes on Syria early on April 14 in response to a suspected Syrian chemical attack that killed dozens of people last week.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced "precision strikes" on Syrian military facilities used to make chemical weapons and said the attacks launched jointly with France and Britain are aimed at ending the use of such weapons of mass destruction.
Reports received from Iran on social media say angry farmers again launched protests in Isfahan, central Iran on Friday, against “mismanagement of water resources”.
More than two weeks after widespread protests in Iran’s oil-rich southwestern Khuzestan province, the exact number of people detained during the unrest is still unknown.
In a report released on April 12, London-based international human rights watchdog Amnesty International said “more than half (51%) of all recorded executions in 2017 were carried out in Iran.”
Hardline cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, better known as Makarem, has called for execution of “a few main foreign exchange dealers”.
Russia's UN ambassador pleaded with the United States not to stage a military strike against Syria after the UN Security Council deadlocked over proposals responding to a suspected chemical weapons attack outside Damascus.
Tehran’s city council accepted former Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi’s resignation at an April 10 meeting.
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