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Iran now confirms that it's top security leader, Ali-Larjan Johnny, and one other leader
“were killed during it as where the air-strength Tuesday.”
And P.R.'s Kerry Con and Tel Aviv reports that "Larjan Johnny was believed to have been directing Iran's war efforts since Israel assassinated the Supreme Leader in the first hours of the war." It was widely believed that "Larjan Johnny was running Iran. He was also involved in talks with the Trump administration before the war.
Here's Zayid Rad Al Hussein. He's a former Jordanian diplomat in President of the International Peace Institute. He says he was surprised, "Larjan, he was targeted." Because he seemed to be the one person who the International Community could talk to her. And now with him apparently, having been killed, it's difficult to see who one speaks
to in the IRGC.
The IRGC being a powerful branch of the Iranian Security apparatus."
NPR's Kerry Con, a former official, in the ex-serian dictator Bashar al-Assad's government,
“has been convicted in U.S. Court of Torture and Immigration fraud.”
A jury handed down the verdict after a nine-day trial in Los Angeles, NPR's Ryan Lucas reports. The jury found Samir Usman al-Shaykh guilty of four counts of torture as well as immigration offenses. The now 73-year-old was in charge of a notorious Syrian prison in Damascus from 2005 to 2008.
Witness testimony and other evidence presented at trial showed al-Shaykh personally ordered inmates to undergo torture, including beatings with fists and cables. Evidence also indicated inmates were hung from the ceiling by their wrists for extended periods of time. And prosecutors showed al-Shaykh lied about his role in the torture at the prison.
When he applied for his visa to come to the U.S. in 2020 to become a permanent resident, and later a U.S. citizen. Sentencing will take place later this year, Ryan Lucas and PR News, Washington.
“The senators beginning a marathon to baton what the administration is calling the Save”
America Act is NPR's Barbara Sprunt reports the election bill is at top priority of President Trump's. The Senate voted to begin to baton exercise that may take several days or even longer. The legislation would require proof of citizenship and photo ID to vote. President Trump has said he won't sign most other bills until Congress passes this legislation.
Republicans need support from Democrats in order to reach the 60 vote threshold to get the bill over the finish line. Democrats do not support this bill. Non-citizens cannot legally vote in federal elections and officials and other experts say instances of them doing so anyway are rare.
Barbara Sprunt and PR News, the capital. The Illinois's Lieutenant Governor Julianne Stratton has been declared the winner in the Democratic primary in the election held Tuesday night for the U.S. Senate seat to succeed the retiring Senator Dick Durbin and from Washington you're listening to NPR news. As Cuba's widening economic turmoil worsens Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Tuesday
that the country's current leadership and its political and government systems cannot fix the country's problems and the nation he said needs dramatic change.
Cuba is now in the midst of a third major blackout since December amid the loss of critical
oil from Venezuela as the U.S. conducts in energy blockade. The United Farm Workers is said it will not participate in activities this month. I don't ring its co-founder and the famed Union Leader Caesar Chavez. The Union says it's become aware of sexual abuse allegations against Chavez who died in 1993 and PR's Adrian Florido reports.
In a statement the U.S. W. said it had been made aware of quote deeply troubling allegations that Chavez had abused young women and girls. The Union did not say how it learned of these allegations but said they're serious enough that it's seeking more information and wants to help possible victims. And PR has not independently verified the allegations against Chavez.
In the 1960s he became a national leader for farm workers and civil rights. In a separate statement, the Cessad Chavez Foundation said quote, "We are deeply shocked and saddened by what we're hearing." Though details of the allegations have yet to emerge, Fallout has been swift in California Texas and Arizona events honoring Chavez' birthday March 31st have been canceled or renamed.
Adrian Florido and PR News Los Angeles. It was a mixed-day on Wall Street that Dow was down the Nasdaq in the X&P rub fractionally. "I'm Dan Ronan NPR News in Washington, support for it." Alex Rosenthal has a fan Teja, meaning he can't visualize things like- "Fraction of a microsecond and then it's gone and for some people it's just total blanks
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