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By Parisa Hafezi, Nayera Abdallah and Steven Schee

By Parisa Hafezi, Nayera Abdallah and Steven Scheer
DUBAI/JERUSALEM, June 8 (Reuters) – Iran and Israel said on Monday they had halted attacks on each other after an appeal from U.S. President Donald Trump that they immediately “stop ‘shooting’”, though Tehran said it would resume strikes if Israel continued to hit Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The wave of attacks over 24 hours were the most direct confrontation between Iran and Israel since an April ceasefire, threatening to wreck Washington’s efforts to reach an agreement with Tehran to end their more than three-month-old war.

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By Kayhan Life Staff A 17-year-old Iranian by the

By Kayhan Life Staff
A 17-year-old Iranian by the name of Mani Rahmani, who was arrested after demonstrating against the regime in January and supporting former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi on Instagram, has died as a result of injuries sustained while in prison, including repeated blows to the head with metal rods and batons, and other forms of torture, according to a source close to his family.

Rahmani was returning home on Jan. 22 from the barbershop where he worked in the northwestern town of Takestan when he was arrested in the city center by agents of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the source said. After nearly six days of searches and inquiries, Mani’s relatives found out about his wheareabouts from acquaintances in the police force, the source added.

Eventually, authorities agreed to release him after his parents pledged in writing that their son would not be seen in the city center again. Yet when Mani returned home, his parents discovered that he had been subjected to severe beatings while in custody, the source said.

According to the source, security agents had struck him repeatedly with metal rods and batons, targeting his head, back, and legs. His injuries were so extensive that he could not stand without assistance, the source added.

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By Nazanine Nouri June 8 - London’s prestigious Al

By Nazanine Nouri
June 8 - London’s prestigious Almeida Theater is presenting the stage adaptation of “Under the Shadow” — an awardwinning 2016 horror movie by the British-Iranian writer-director Babak Anvari. The play runs through July 4.

Anvari’s film, set in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq war, is the story of Shideh and her husband, a doctor who is conscripted and sent to the front. It won the 2017 BAFTA Film Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer, and the 2016 British Independent Film Award for Best Screenplay.

The play, set in an apartment in Tehran, shows Shideh (Leila Farzad) – a doctor who cannot practice medicine due to repressive state laws — sheltering at home with her terrified young daughter while Tehran is bombed and her husband is on the battlefield.

Shideh prefers to stay home with their daughter Dorsa even after a missile strikes their building. Dorsa is afraid of demonic djinns. Shiva reads up about djinns and discovers that there is an evil spirit in the apartment.

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By Kayhan Life Staff The province of Tehran starte

By Kayhan Life Staff
The province of Tehran started the Iranian New Year with the worst water shortage in all of Iran, with its drinking water and agricultural supply both severely affected. Nearly three months on, the water shortage is still severe — despite a recent rise in water reserves.

With the increase in rainfall this spring, the reserves of several dams supplying water to the capital, Tehran, including the Amir Kabir Dam (commonly known as the Karaj Dam) — located 63 kilometers northwest of Tehran and 23 kilometers north of Karaj — have risen. Yet experts say the water shortage crisis continues.

Statistics indicate that as of May 16, the Karaj Dam reservoir had reached 106 million cubic meters, equivalent to 59 percent of its total capacity.

Davoud Najafian, managing director of the Alborz Regional Water Authority, said: “Due to increased inflows into the Karaj and Taleghan reservoirs in Alborz Province this year, the volume of water stored in the Karaj Dam has risen to 133 million cubic meters out of a total capacity of 179 million cubic meters. In other words, the dam is now nearly 74 percent full.”

Specialists explain that Iran’s water crisis is not simply the result of a few years of low rainfall. Rather, it stems from a long-term imbalance between the country’s natural environmental capacity and its patterns of economic and population growth.

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By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi, Bo Erickson

By Alexander Cornwell, Parisa Hafezi, Bo Erickson and Yomna Ehab
TEL AVIV/DUBAI/NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, June 8 (Reuters) – Israel said it struck military targets in western and central Iran on Monday, even after U.S. President Donald Trump reportedly told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to refrain from further attacks.

Hours earlier, Trump said new strikes by Israel and Iran would not affect his administration’s peace talks with Tehran, adding that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “doesn’t call the shots.”

Trump has leaned on Israel to stop its attacks in Lebanon to allow room for a deal to end the wider war with Iran, including rebuking Netanyahu with obscenities in a phone call last week.

However, earlier on Sunday Israel launched strikes in the Beirut area for the first time since the U.S. announced a truce plan for Lebanon last week.

Iran fired a salvo of missiles at Israeli targets in retaliation, putting U.S.-Iran peace talks at risk. But Trump insisted that an agreement to end the wider war remained well within reach.

“It’s not going to have any impact on the deal,” Trump told the Financial Times. “I call the shots. I call all the shots. He (Netanyahu) doesn’t call the shots.”

A few hours later, Israel’s defence forces said they had struck Iranian military targets. Iran‘s Revolutionary Guards said Israel used air-launched ballistic missiles in its attacks.

“Everyone has had enough of this maniacal Iranian regime,” Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Leiter, said on X, adding that Iran had fired 11 ballistic missiles at Israel.

“No self-respecting country in the world would tolerate such an attack, and neither will Israel,” he said, adding that Israel was targeting Iran‘s surface-to-surface missile launch sites, and infrastructure facilities unrelated to the energy sector.

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