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      <title>Tehran billboard hints Trump is the &apos;next one&apos; after Graham&apos;s death</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A new billboard unveiled in central Tehran after the death of US Senator Lindsey Graham appears to allude to US President Donald Trump as the next potential target, extending a campaign of public threats against perceived enemies of the Islamic Republic.]]></description>
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      <title>Vance, Ghalibaf back diplomacy as US, Iran strikes continue</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:35:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rising daycare fees push Iranian families to rely on grandparents</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:29:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Petition tells Iran hardliners: Fight the US war yourselves</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:25:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:07:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Inflation leaves Iranian pensioners unable to cover basic costs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian pensioners say their monthly income no longer covers basic living expenses, with many forced to seek additional work as inflation continues to erode their purchasing power.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:13:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran hardliners cry foul as Ghalibaf camp gains ground</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:58:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Wave of Iran plots drove UK action against IRGC, terror law tsar says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Britain's decision to create a new legal framework targeting Iran's Revolutionary Guards was driven less by political pressure than by the scale of alleged Iranian activity on British soil, according to Jonathan Hall, the UK government's independent reviewer of terrorism laws.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:04:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>As Tehran debates, Iran&apos;s south lives the war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A week of heavy fighting has left parts of Iran’s southern coast looking unmistakably like a war zone. Yet in Tehran, many still struggle to believe the country is at war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:30:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two Iranians at the World Cup final – and neither represents the Islamic Republic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's national team exited the World Cup in the group stage, yet two Iranians may still command Sunday's final: an exiled violinist on the halftime stage and the referee tipped for the whistle. Neither arrives representing the Islamic Republic.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:27:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A senior Iranian cleric said on Wednesday that Iranian officials should not continue negotiations with the United States by citing concerns over damage to the country's infrastructure, after President Donald Trump threatened to strike Iran's power plants and bridges.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:13:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump says Iran power plants, bridges could be hit next week</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump said he would expand military strikes on Iran to power plants and bridges unless Tehran returned to negotiations, warning in a Fox News interview broadcast on Tuesday that attacks would intensify next week.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:55:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran extends British prisoner&apos;s sentence by two years, family says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A British man jailed in Iran on espionage charges was given an additional two-year prison term after authorities accused him of speaking to the media from prison, his family said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:45:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How Tehran made the most of Trump&apos;s Hormuz proposal</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's short-lived proposal to charge cargo transiting the Strait of Hormuz has handed Tehran an unexpected argument: that Washington itself briefly accepted the principle that securing the strategic waterway could justify collecting fees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:10:23 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/middle-east">Middle East - Persian Gulf</category>
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      <title>One flight, two chokepoints: why Iran wants an air bridge to Yemen</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607156808</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Iranian plane landing in Houthi-controlled Yemen looked like an oddly minor victory for Tehran. But it may have been the opening move in an effort to rebuild the allied force capable of threatening a second global maritime chokepoint alongside the Strait of Hormuz.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 01:58:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/middle-east">Middle East - Persian Gulf</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
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      <title>US-Iran conflict converges on Hormuz</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607145677</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The war between the United States and Iran is increasingly being fought over control of the Strait of Hormuz, with both sides using the strategic waterway as a source of military and political leverage.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:46:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Telegram channels turn women’s private photos into tools of extortion across Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Private photos of women posted on Telegram channels in Iran's western Lorestan province have triggered widespread fear and prompted more than 200 complaints, with authorities saying three people accused of running the channels have been arrested on Tuesday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:57:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">Telegram channels turn women’s private photos into tools of extortion across Iran</media:title>
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      <title>Persian Gulf startup hubs hold firm despite Iran war - Bloomberg </title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607148710</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Iran war has yet to trigger an exodus of entrepreneurs from the Persian Gulf, but falling investment, rising costs and slower funding are beginning to test the region’s heavily financed startup strategy, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:45:24 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Iran parliament drops two hardline critics of US talks from security panel posts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's parliament voted two outspoken critics of negotiations with the United States out of senior posts on its National Security and Foreign Policy Committee on Tuesday, a day after lawmakers returned to the chamber for the first time in more than four months.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:14:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/politics">Domestic Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>US personnel faced phone-tracking campaign during Iran war – FT</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607146253</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[US military personnel and contractors in the Middle East were targeted in a coordinated phone-tracking campaign before and during the Iran war, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing telecom data, cybersecurity experts and officials familiar with the matter.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:09:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>Germany investigates suspected Iran-linked spying and attack plans</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607146588</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[German security authorities are investigating indications of possible surveillance activities and preparations for attacks linked to the Iran war, German-language newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Tuesday, citing the Interior Ministry.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran cuts living allowances for many people with disabilities</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607149656</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Many Iranians with disabilities have lost their living allowances after the State Welfare Organization halted payments from June citing a budget shortfall, the labor-focused news agency ILNA reported on Monday, adding that caregiver and hygiene subsidies have also been delayed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:39:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>Trump says US will take over Strait of Hormuz</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607147908</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump said on Monday that the United States would take control of the Strait of Hormuz, continue military operations against Iran and seek compensation from regional countries for securing the strategic waterway.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:35:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
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      <title>Against restraint: Iran&apos;s hardliners rewrite the rules of confrontation</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607137412</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[As renewed fighting pushes Iran and the United States away from diplomacy and back toward full-scale confrontation, influential hardline voices in Tehran are openly arguing that political assassination and a more aggressive foreign policy are both justified and necessary.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:11:40 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/politics">Domestic Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Did Mossad recruit Iran’s Holocaust-denying president?</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607140959</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The alleged recruitment of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by Mossad reads like a spy thriller and has been denied by his office. But it has renewed interest in Iran's most controversial president—and the ruthless infighting that turned a Leader’s darling into a political outcast.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:25:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/israel">Israel</category>
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      <title>Iran risks its most valuable Arab partner over Hormuz</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607147249</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's attack on facilities supporting US naval operations in Oman has plunged relations with one of Tehran's closest regional partners into their deepest crisis in decades, turning a dispute over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz into a direct military confrontation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:56:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/politics">Domestic Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Why so few Iranians have jobs despite low unemployment</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Barely 37 percent of working-age Iranians have a job. Yet the government's official unemployment rate is only 7.5 percent. The gap between those two figures reveals less about Iran's labour market than about the way it is measured.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:42:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/economy-and-environment">Economy &amp; Environment</category>
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      <title>Trump reinstates Iran naval blockade, notifies Congress of renewed fighting</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump on Monday reinstated a naval blockade against Iran after notifying Congress that US military action against the Islamic Republic had resumed, amid fresh blasts in southern Iran and continued ship attacks near Hormuz.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 20:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/united-states">United States</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">Trump reinstates Iran naval blockade, notifies Congress of renewed fighting</media:title>
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      <title>Mossad recruited Ahmadinejad for Iran regime-change plot - report</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel’s Mossad recruited former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and chose him to lead Iran after a planned operation to overthrow the Islamic Republic, Haaretz reported Monday, citing more than 30 political, defense, diplomatic and foreign sources.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
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      <title> UK says support for Iran&apos;s IRGC outlawed under new state threats law</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607137903</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Britain said on Monday it would designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and two other groups under new state threats legislation, making it a criminal offense to support or assist them if the measure is approved by parliament later this week.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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        <media:title type="plain"> UK says support for Iran&apos;s IRGC outlawed under new state threats law</media:title>
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      <title>January protesters trapped in &apos;hell&apos; of Greater Tehran prison, inmates say</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607133591</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[January protesters held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary are being kept in severely overcrowded and unsanitary conditions without adequate medical care, clean drinking water or sufficient food, according to multiple inmates and eyewitnesses who spoke to Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:22:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-human-rights">Human Rights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">January protesters trapped in &apos;hell&apos; of Greater Tehran prison, inmates say</media:title>
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      <title>Plastic waste becomes major environmental challenge in Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Plastic waste has become a major environmental challenge in Iran, with poor enforcement of waste management regulations allowing single-use plastics to pollute natural areas and water resources, the country's environment chief said on Sunday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:53:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/economy-and-environment">Economy &amp; Environment</category>
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      <title>AI self-diagnosis rises in Iran as healthcare costs drive patients online</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Patients in Iran are increasingly turning to artificial intelligence for medical advice as healthcare costs outpace household incomes, prompting concerns from a public health expert that the technology could undermine treatment and trust between doctors and patients.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:23:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/society">Society</category>
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      <title>Cannabis emerges as leading drug among Iranian women</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607132184</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Women’s drug use has increased in Iran over the past decade, with cannabis products now the most commonly used substances among female users, a senior anti-narcotics official said on Sunday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:54:32 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/society">Society</category>
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      <title>Diplomacy fades as US and Iran escalate over Hormuz</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607137141</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hopes that the memorandum of understanding between Iran and the United States could evolve into a broader deal appeared increasingly remote on Monday as both sides carried out fresh strikes and clashed over control of the Strait of Hormuz.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 02:40:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Can Tehran seek revenge and negotiate with Washington?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s renewed call for revenge over his father’s killing has emboldened hardliners demanding concrete action, while raising questions over how such threats can be reconciled with Tehran’s stated openness to diplomacy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:07:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Senator Graham was a steadfast friend of the Iranian people, Prince Pahlavi says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's Prince Reza Pahlavi offered condolences following the death of US Senator Lindsey Graham on Sunday, calling him a “steadfast friend of the Iranian people” and a defender of freedom.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 09:52:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran tells pro-government rallies to continue until leader orders otherwise</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian authorities on Saturday instructed pro-government street gatherings to continue until Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei orders them to end.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:12:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Khamenei doubles down on revenge after Trump vows to decimate Iran if targeted</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202607114956</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei renewed his vow Saturday to avenge his father’s killing after US President Donald Trump said he had ordered the US military to “decimate and destroy” Iran if Tehran attempted to assassinate him.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran faces region’s harshest mix of wartime contraction and inflation</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[War has erased Iran’s already weak growth prospects. The economy shrinks as prices rise at one of the region’s fastest rates, forcing households to bear war, sanctions and years of economic mismanagement through fewer jobs, weaker incomes and collapsing purchasing power.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:32:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is the Iran-US MoU dead – or are we asking the wrong question?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Less than three weeks after Washington and Tehran began implementing a 60-day memorandum, the ceasefire is broken, commercial ships have again come under attack in the Strait of Hormuz, and US forces have struck Iran. Yet the two sides are still talking.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:18:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US declares end of Iran truce as diplomacy collides with retaliation threats</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A day after Ali Khamenei was buried, US President Donald Trump declared the ceasefire with Iran over while agreeing to continue negotiations and warning of overwhelming retaliation if Tehran targeted him, as Iranian officials and clerics intensified calls for revenge.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:00:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/foreign-relations">Diplomacy</category>
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      <title>For many Iranians, paychecks now barely cover food</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Years of high inflation have pushed millions of Iranian households into a struggle over basic expenses, with new estimates showing wages barely cover food costs before rent, healthcare and other necessities are even considered.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 20:03:01 GMT</pubDate>
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        <media:title type="plain">For many Iranians, paychecks now barely cover food</media:title>
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      <title>Iran’s economic pain deepens as factions trade blame</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As Iran navigates renewed confrontation with the United States and uncertainty over a fragile diplomatic process, a deeper crisis is returning to the center of public debate: how much longer ordinary Iranians can absorb the economic cost.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:50:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Friday prayers across Iran became a synchronized campaign for revenge on Friday, with clerics rejecting further negotiations with Washington, defending Tehran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz and demanding visible retaliation for the killing of Ali Khamenei.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian officials are calling for national unity after Ali Khamenei’s death, but the message is increasingly being shaped by demands for revenge, attacks on officials accused of compromise and warnings that internal division serves the enemy.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[The European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) said Monday that Iranian nationals are not barred from attending its 2026 congress, clarifying that restrictions apply only to invitation letters issued in support of visa applications.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Power and water outages have returned to several parts of Iran, residents across the country told Iran International on Friday, describing hours-long blackouts during intense summer heat despite official assurances the electricity network remains stable.]]></description>
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