![]() They will work under the direction of Mardo Soghom. ![]() The hard-working broadcasters of the Persian Service will join Radio Farda's news team. Radio Farda will aim to build on this success by attracting new and larger audiences. ![]() Its success has been acknowledged even by Iran's hard-line leaders, who regularly denounce its programs - a sure sign that they are listening and concerned with our impact, and the fact that the regime also jams our programs. It has attracted a significant audience in Iran, particularly among influential figures in politics and among its opposition. Under the outstanding leadership of Steve Fairbanks, this service has fulfilled its mission with distinction. This service was established in 1998 at the request of Congress. In preparation for the launch of this new service, RFE/RL's Persian Service - Radio 'Azadi" - will go off the air about December 1. Radio Farda's news and information offerings will project the same seriousness of purpose and adherence to RFE/RL's surrogate mission of promoting democracy, covering local and relevant international news, and living up to our Professional Code, embodying the highest journalistic standards of accuracy and objectivity, as have the programs of our Persian Service. The remainder of the program will be music, a combination of popular Persian and Western songs aimed at attracting young Iranians to Farda's news products. In the event of breaking news or other important events, more news time will be added. Each day Radio Farda will provide more than five hours of original news, features and other information. Radio Farda is a joint venture between RFE/RL and the Voice of America, under the auspices of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. It will be an around-the-clock radio station for Iran, targeted primarily at Iranians under the age of 30, which is about 70 percent of the country's population. Radio Farda ' 'Tomorrow' in Farsi - will go on the air in mid-December. I am delighted to inform you about an exciting and important new broadcasting initiative at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Tom Dine sent the following message out to the RFE/RL staff today (Nov 18 2002). Radio Farda also said their data was a very conservative estimate, and the real number of the victims could be much higher.BACK TO : INTERNATIONAL BROADCASTING (see also Public Diplomacy) The broadcast service likewise said that health ministry officials were insisting that their data were based on the final test of coronavirus on patients, but have excluded the number of persons who have had clinical symptoms of the COVID-19 but were not tested for the virus. Many experts have blamed Chinese Shiite students in Qom for the spread of the coronavirus in the country, Radio Farda said. Qom, the largest center of Shiite seminaries in the world, Iran’s hotspot for the deadly virus. The Islamic Republic authorities are reluctant to publish the number of COVID-19 victims in the provinces of Tehran and Qom, apparently because of the high number of the victims in the two neighboring regions, Radio Farda said. Government figures as of Wednesday show the outbreak has killed 2,077 people in Iran from 27,017 reported cases of the virus so far. Radio Farda noted its data gathering indicated 3,036 people have fallen victim to the novel coronavirus, while 59,120 persons have tested positive and hospitalized for contracting the deadly virus in the country’s 31 provinces since February 19. DUBAI: Iran is grossly under-reporting coronavirus cases and deaths in the country, contrary to what various national and local media, regional authorities and health ministry officials are indicating, broadcast service Radio Farda said.
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