• Head of Iran Regime’s National Security Commission: Telegraph is a security threat
Despite the widespread reaction to allegations by Aladdin Borujerdi, chairman of the National Security and Foreign Policy Commission on the blockade of the telegram, he argued that the Telegram is”a threat to national security” on Sunday April 1, defending the telegram filtering.
One day earlier, Boroujerdi also said that the end of Iranian month of Farvardin (mid April) telegram will be blocked in Iran, and that decision was taken at the “highest level” of the system.
• Earthquakes shook areas of Damavand city in Tehran province
The seismic earthquake measured 4.2 on Richter scale, shook Kilan region, located in the central part of Damavand city, in Tehran province. On Sunday evening. (IRNA reported)
No reports have yet been published about possible damages.
• Israeli F-35s fly over Iran provinces and installations: Arab News
LONDON: ARAB NEWS, Israeli media reports have said that F-35 stealth bombers have penetrated deep into Iranian airspace overcoming all radar and air defense systems.
The planes took off from Azerbaijan and succeeded in carrying reconnaissance missions in Iran close to Iran-Iraq border. The media report detailed that the undetectable stealth planes flew close to sensitive Iranian installations in Bandar Abbas, Isfahan and Shiraz.
No official confirmation was attainable since Israel refused to comment on its military operations.
• Possibility of war with Iran
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has called on the international community to step up pressure on Iran economically and politically to avoid a direct military confrontation in the region.
“The sanctions will create more pressure on the regime,” Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
• 5.3-magnitude earthquake in Iran’s Kurdish region leaves at least 38 casualties
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – An earthquake in Iranian Kurdistan’s (Rojhilat) Kermanshan Province on Sunday left at least 38 people injured, local media reported.
The 5.3-magnitude earthquake rocked the western Iranian region at 1:05 p.m. (local time), a report from the seismography center affiliated with Tehran University Geophysics Institute revealed.
The tremor’s epicenter was located at a depth of eight kilometers underground near the town of Sarpol-e Zahab in Kermanshan.
• Continuing night protests in Ahvaz ، security forces’ s try to disperse demonstrators
Reports from Ahvaz indicate that protests against the regime’s discriminatory policies have begun again on Saturday and continue until the early hours of Sunday.
Protesters clashed with repressive chanted slogans for “freeing political prisoners and ending racism against the Arabs and stopping the demographic change of the region.”
• Putin, Rouhani, Erdogan will Meet In Turkey On April 4
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will meet on April 4 in Ankara in a summit of the three countries sponsoring a series of Syrian peace talks.
Based on reporting by Reuters, TASS, AFP, and The Daily Sabah
• Iran said set to shut down Telegram messaging
AP. Authorities reportedly claim service played destructive role in anti-government protests in which 25 were killed.
On Saturday ‘Mashreghnews.ir’ quoted the head of the parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, Alaeddin Boroujerdi as saying the decision was made “at the highest level” and that the app, which is similar to WhatsApp, would be replaced by a similar local system.
• 58th day of hunger strike by lady political prisoner
Mrs. Golrokh Iraee has been on hunger strike since February 3, 2018, in protest to her unlawful transfer to Qarchak Prison. She has lost more than 20 kilograms, suffers from plummeting blood pressure, dryness of tongue, and inflammation of legs. She is not able to walk.
• IRGC: The regime’s record is being severely threatened
Sunday Apr.1. Iran regime’s revolutionary guards (IRGC) announced in a statement:”The brilliant work record of the Islamic Republic” is “severely threatened and invaded” on the eve of the fifth decade of the revolution, and “the instigation of the system’s ineffectiveness in solving economic problems” is a sign of such threats.
• Ober Bank’s activity stopped in Iran due to fears of “new sanctions”
A new report in Austria’s Die Presse confirms that Oberbank, one of the first Western banks to sign a deal to provide project finance to Iran, has put projects “on hold” due to the uncertainties surrounding the Iran nuclear deal.