EghtesadOnline: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a message to his Belarussian counterpart, Alexander Lukashenko to congratulate the national day of Belarus to him, the government and the people of the country.

EghtesadOnline: Belarusian authorities plan to set up a nationwide surveillance system to get a better grip on their own population as the largest protests in two decades sweep the country.

EghtesadOnline: The election in Belarus of lawmakers critical of authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has split pro-democracy activists in the ex-Soviet republic once dubbed Europe's last dictatorship.