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Leader pardon order

The Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution has pardoned and commuted the sentences of a large number of people arrested during the recent riots in the country. Ayatollah Khamenei issued the decree in response to a request by the Iranian judiciary on the occasion of the forty-fourth anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution. In his request, Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei said many of those who committed crimes during the foreign-backed riots are now repentant and ask for forgiveness. Cases against those charged with crimes or convicted of them will now be dropped. The judiciary chief, however, said the clemency will not apply to those who committed espionage, murder, bodily harm and vandalism. Those facing lawsuits by private litigations are not eligible for the amnesty either. Ayatollah Khamenei has also granted amnesty to a number of people convicted of other crimes. 

Iran tech. progress

Iran’s Vice President and Head of the Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, has unveiled three major achievements of his organization. Eslami officially started the production line of sanitary super-absorbent, blood clotting powder and the essence microwave extractor in the central Province of Yazd. Iran is now among the world's producers of strategic medical goods that are vital in surgical operations. The highly consumed products used to be imported from China, Taiwan and South Korea. On the forty-fourth anniversary of the Islamic Revolution’s victory, Iran is unveiling tens of strategic, hi-tech products in different sectors with civilian and non-civilian uses, all produced by domestic startups. 

Battle over Bakhmut

Heavy fighting raging in the northern parts of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been the target of a Russian campaign for weeks. The head of Russia’s private military company, the Wagner group, says his soldiers are fighting for every street and house against Ukrainian forces who refuse to retreat. Russian forces appear to be making progress in their campaign to encircle and capture Bakhmut in the eastern Donbas region. The Wagner Group has been leading Russian efforts in the area. Capturing Bakhmut would be Russia's most important strategic advance since last summer. The Ukrainian president says the situation around the city is getting tougher as Russia mobilizes more forces. Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed that Ukraine won’t give up on the embattled city. 

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