Britain: Russian election marks serious setback to democratic freedoms

According to reports to Iran International, Mahboubeh Rezaei, two political prisoners who reported assaulting women in Iranian prisons, had no contact with her family in recent days, and Bushehr prison officials told them she had been transferred to Shiraz prison.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked the people for their trust after the ruling party won the parliamentary elections. Opponents of Putin say the election was marred by widespread fraud

A volcanic eruption in La Palma, on the Spanish Canary Islands, has displaced 5,500 people and destroyed at least 100 homes. The arrival of lava flows into the sea is expected to release toxic gases

Sadr al-Din Alipour, CEO of the Waste Management Organization, announced the dispatch of 300 members of the Tehran Municipality's Deputy for Municipal Services to Najaf and Karbala, and said: "These forces are from the Waste Management, Fire and Behesht Zahra organizations."

Ali Akbar Salehi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran: Iran has twice been a model of governance throughout history. For the first time during the Achaemenid period ... and for the second time after the victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran, he adopted the method of governing based on Velayat-e-Faqih.