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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's state media issued rare and sharply worded criticism of Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and the negotiating team after he declared the reopening of Hormuz Strait on X, saying the move created confusion and gave Trump an opening to claim victory.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 08:24:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:11:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[An attempted attack near the London studios of Iran International has heightened concerns over what the broadcaster says is a growing campaign of intimidation targeting its staff.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:01:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran International condemns the attempted attack near its London studios on the evening of 15 April.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:00:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Freelancers and small business owners say their incomes have collapsed and daily operations have halted during Iran’s prolonged internet shutdown, which NetBlocks said has caused $1.8 billion in losses over 48 days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:32:58 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran halts petrochemical exports to supply domestic market</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:23:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hope and anger in Iran as fragile ceasefire persists</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Messages from Iran International viewers inside the country reveal a society grappling with a mix of hope, anger and deep uncertainty as a fragile ceasefire with the United States persists.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:07:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US sanctions oil network tied to Iranian tycoon Shamkhani</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on a network of companies, ships and individuals tied to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, an Iranian oil trader whose business empire has become a major conduit for Iran’s sanctioned petroleum exports.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:20:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Hardliners push Hormuz ‘red line’ as US blockade tests Iran’s leverage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hardline voices in Tehran are escalating rhetoric around the Strait of Hormuz, calling for transit fees on ships even as a US blockade challenges Iran’s control over the strategic waterway.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:34:40 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ideology may be fading in Iran, but not in Kashmir&apos;s ‘Mini Iran&apos;</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fundraising drives across Indian-administered Kashmir have collected nearly $2 million for Iran following the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, highlighting the depth of religious and ideological ties between the region’s Shia community and the Islamic Republic.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US blockade enters murky phase as tankers spoof signals and buyers hesitate</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:11:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US tightens financial squeeze on Iran, warns banks over oil money flows</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US Treasury has warned banks in the Middle East and East Asia to halt Iran-linked transactions or face potential sanctions, signaling a stepped-up enforcement push targeting the financial networks that move Tehran’s oil revenues.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War damage amounts to $3,000 per Iranian, with blockade set to add to losses</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[War damage to Iran’s economy has reached $270 billion in 40 days, equivalent to roughly $3,000 per person, according to official figures, with losses expected to grow as trade disruptions deepen under a US blockade of Iranian ports.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran negotiators ordered to return after internal rift over Islamabad talks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sharp disagreements among members of Iran’s negotiating team led them to abandon US talks in Islamabad and return to Tehran on April 11 following an order from Iran's top security official, sources familiar with the deliberations told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why the $100 billion Hormuz toll revenue is a myth</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The idea that Iran could generate tens of billions of dollars annually by charging ships to pass through the Strait of Hormuz has gained traction in media commentary, but the claim does not withstand scrutiny.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 17:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US blockade targets Iran oil boom amid regional disruption</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States moved to impose a naval blockade on Iran just as the country’s oil exports were surging to their highest levels in years, underscoring Washington’s effort to halt a wartime boom in Tehran’s energy revenues.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran petrochemical workers face layoffs as industrial crisis deepens</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran faces a wave of layoffs in its petrochemical sector and widespread factory closures as a deepening economic crisis and internet shutdowns paralyze businesses, according to reports sent by residents to Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:32:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Drug shortages, price surge hit patients across Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranians face a severe shortage of essential medicines and a spike in prices, according to reports sent by citizens to Iran International, as the country struggles with a deepening healthcare crisis.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:18:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran&apos;s digital economy battered by prolonged blackout</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[More than 1,000 hours of internet shutdown in Iran is crippling small businesses and startups, with officials estimating losses of at least $35 million per day.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran’s central bank warns economy may take 12 years to rebuild after war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s central bank has warned President Masoud Pezeshkian that rebuilding the country’s war-damaged economy could take more than a decade, sources familiar with internal deliberations told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran-US ceasefire nudges sidelined Arab states toward Israel, expert says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Arab states hit hardest by Iran’s strikes may be emerging from the US-Iran ceasefire feeling sidelined, a shift that could push them closer to Israel as they rethink who can truly guarantee their security, Middle East scholar Dalia Ziada told Eye for Iran.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:15:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>What the US naval blockade would mean for Iran’s economy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US naval blockade of Iran, which started on Monday, could rapidly cripple the country’s economy, cutting off most of its trade, halting oil exports and triggering inflation and currency pressure within days.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tehran sends tough message but keeps diplomacy door open</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reactions in Tehran to the collapse of the Islamabad talks suggest Iran’s leadership is settling on a dual message: defiance toward Washington’s pressure while still leaving the door to diplomacy open.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:43:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Zoroastrian religious figure arrested in Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Hooman Forouhari, a Zoroastrian religious figure, was arrested in Kerman on March 14 by the intelligence branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, according to reports.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:38:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Worst outcome is Islamic Republic’s survival, ex-CIA official says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As a fragile ceasefire holds between the United States and Iran, former CIA analyst and former National Security Council director Ken Pollack is warning that the greatest risk may be a war that ends with the Islamic Republic still intact.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:50:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran brings unusually broad team to US talks to blunt future blame</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran has sent a negotiating team to the Islamabad talks with the United States spanning an unusually broad political spectrum—suggesting a possibly calculated effort to pre-empt future hardline backlash while pursuing negotiations.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran holds firm on Hormuz grip despite deadlock in US talks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Control of the Strait of Hormuz has become Tehran’s most powerful bargaining chip as it seeks maximum leverage in the ongoing peace talks with the United States in Islamabad.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US terminates green cards of 3 Iranians tied to Islamic Republic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States revoked the permanent resident status of three Iranian nationals with ties to the Islamic Republic and placed them in immigration custody, the State Department said on Saturday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:59:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why the Iran-US truce is more likely to buy time than peace</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As US and Iranian envoys prepare to meet in Pakistan this weekend, the truce between the two sides appears less a step toward peace than a fragile intermission in a war whose central disputes remain unresolved.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Engaged but uncommitted: China watches Iran and US fight and talk</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As US and Iranian envoys prepare to meet in Pakistan to explore a path out of the war, China is watching from further east—an influential but cautious actor that helped move diplomacy forward but is unlikely to become the guarantor Tehran would like.

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      <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A truce for the world, a reckoning for Iran’s economy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The ceasefire in the US-Israeli war on Iran eased global oil markets and may finally reopen the Strait of Hormuz. But for Iran, the truce exposes an economic crisis the war had temporarily masked, with weaker fundamentals and fewer tools to respond.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Why the world failed to bypass the Strait of Hormuz</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 2019, while working on the energy desk at Reuters, I began reporting on a question that has shadowed global oil markets for decades: what would happen if the Strait of Hormuz were closed?]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:28:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>52 senior Iranian officials and commanders killed in US and Israeli attacks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[What follows is a list of fifty-two senior military, intelligence and security officials of the Islamic Republic who have been killed in recent years—mostly in Israeli operations and in some cases with US involvement.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:40:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Islamic Republic loyalists protest ceasefire, attack negotiation push </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pro-government groups protested a ceasefire with the United States and planned negotiations, accusing officials of betraying the leadership and demanding continued confrontation, according to videos circulating on social media.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:16:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Islamic Republic marks Khamenei 40th day with burial still unclear</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fortieth-day ceremonies for Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei began on Thursday during a fragile two-week ceasefire with the United States and Israel, as authorities continued to withhold clear information about his burial 40 days after his killing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:06:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Costa Rica designates IRGC, 3 Iran-backed groups as terror organizations</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Costa Rica designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, the foreign ministry said on Thursday, in a move that also blacklisted three other Iran-backed groups in the region.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran officials celebrate ceasefire as critics warn it could stall change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s political establishment has largely rallied behind the decision by the Supreme National Security Council to accept a two-week ceasefire mediated by Pakistan, while critics warn the pause in fighting could harm prospects for political change.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:42:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <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>Tehran factions jostle for credit as fragile ceasefire unfolds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the newly announced ceasefire struggles to hold, Tehran is entering a contradictory moment marked by official celebrations, delayed funerals and renewed political infighting.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:03:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Ceasefire stirs anger, fragile hope among Iranians</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A temporary ceasefire between the United States and Iran has triggered anger and cautious hope among Iranians who sent messages to Iran International, with many describing a sense of abandonment by President Donald Trump.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>France gets two citizens back from Iran as questions linger over swap terms</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran has released French nationals Cécile Kohler and Jacques Paris after more than three and a half years in detention, closing one chapter of a case Paris has long held up as emblematic of what it calls Iran’s practice of detaining foreign nationals on politicized grounds.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:16:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>A pause with opposing terms: What Washington wanted, what Tehran demanded</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The details are still incomplete, but the positions Tehran and Washington have publicly tied to the ceasefire suggest not a shared settlement so much as a temporary halt layered over unresolved hostilities.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 10:33:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranians voice anxiety, mixed views as fears of infrastructure attacks rise</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Donald Trump's threats to target Iran’s power plants and bridges in case of Tehran's failure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz by Tuesday night have triggered anxiety among many Iranians, even as some say the regime's survival poses a greater threat.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Can Iran’s environment be saved? </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Much of the global conversation about Iran revolves around security, conflict, and nuclear risk. What is less discussed is an environmental collapse already unfolding, with consequences that extend well beyond its borders.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:07:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How the war struck Iran’s architecture of repression</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel’s campaign in Iran has reached far beyond missile depots and military command. Over roughly a month, it has also hit the architecture of domestic repression: intelligence compounds, police stations, Basij bases, judicial buildings, and senior officials tied to crackdowns.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:37:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran’s president says Guards commanders are wrecking ceasefire chances</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A deepening rift at the top of the Islamic Republic has spilled into an unusually sharp confrontation, with President Masoud Pezeshkian accusing senior Guards commanders of unilateral actions that have wrecked ceasefire prospects and pushed Iran toward disaster.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Iran refuses to return body of executed teen protester to family</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian security forces have still not returned the body of 18-year-old protester Amirhossein Hatami to his family, four days after his execution, in what informed sources described as further pressure on relatives already reeling from his death.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:56:46 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War reaches Iran’s petrochemical heartland</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s petrochemical sector is now openly under threat, marking a significant escalation in the conflict and raising the prospect of far-reaching economic consequences for the country and potentially the wider region.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:18:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Intensive strikes on eve of Trump deadline killed dozens in Iran - HRANA</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The heaviest wave of attacks in more than a week struck Iran on Monday, killing at least 49 civilians and injuring 58 others as the war between Iran, rights group HRANA reported ahead of President Trump's Tuesday deadline to hit Iranian power plants.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US rescue inside Iran opens debate over war&apos;s next phase</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The mission to rescue an American pilot downed in Iran showed how a tactical success can open wider strategic possibilities, sharpening debate over how far the United States may expand its footprint inside Iran.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:12:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Who was Majid Khademi, and why does his killing matter?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Majid Khademi, the IRGC intelligence chief killed in Tehran early Monday, was not a battlefield commander so much as a career security insider who rose through Iran’s secretive counterintelligence system and helped oversee repression, surveillance and anti-infiltration work.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">Who was Majid Khademi, and why does his killing matter?</media:title>
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      <title>Pakistan-backed proposal sketches two-phase deal to halt hostilities</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran and the United States have received a proposal to end hostilities that could take effect on Monday and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters citing a source familiar with the plan.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>US, Iran exploring 45-day ceasefire - Axios</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States and Iran are discussing the terms of a potential 45-day ceasefire that could open the door to a permanent end to the war, Axios reported Sunday, citing four US, Israeli and regional sources familiar with the talks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What Trump’s threat to strike Iran’s power grid could unleash</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Donald Trump’s threat to strike Iran’s power plants, if carried out, could trigger widespread economic disruption inside Iran while sending shockwaves through global energy markets.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:41:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Striking the veil: dual-use targets and the calculus of Iranian support</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604055219</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[In these fateful weeks, strikes thunder against steel plants at Mobarakeh and Khuzestan, sites tied to the Pasteur Institute, vital transport arteries, and facilities of Shahid Beheshti University—formerly Melli University. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:25:01 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Iran executes at least five in week of wartime crackdown</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran has executed at least five men over the past week in cases linked to anti-government protests and security-related charges, as human rights groups warn of an escalating use of capital punishment against political detainees.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:20:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran executes two men as protest-related hangings continue</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran executed two men on Sunday over accusations that they tried to storm a military site and gain access to an armory during the January protests, according to Mizan, the judiciary’s news outlet.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:21:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>UAE crackdown could hit Iran’s wider shadow network, experts say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The UAE’s recent arrest of IRGC-linked money changers could expand into a broader crackdown on Iran’s shadow financial network, experts said on this week's episode of Eye for Iran podcast.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two more political prisoners executed in Iran </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s judiciary said two political prisoners were executed on Saturday after their death sentences were upheld, in the latest use of capital punishment in security-related cases.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:15:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Multiple US aircraft downed or damaged in bruising day of losses in Iran war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Several US aircraft were shot down or damaged and crews injured on Friday in one of the worst days for the US military in the war with Iran, with search operations ongoing for a missing US aviator in southwestern Iran.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
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      <title>Hardliners pile on &apos;traitor&apos; Zarif, urge his arrest over call for end of war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian hardliners on Friday branded former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif a “traitor” and accused him of espionage over his call to end the war, with a lawmaker urging the judiciary to arrest him along with former president Hassan Rouhani.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:04:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/politics">Domestic Politics</category>
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      <title>For Washington and Tehran, negotiations are still part of the war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran and the United States may prefer an end to the war, but the gap between the minimum terms each side could accept is so wide that a deal remains unlikely for now.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:36:51 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/foreign-relations">Diplomacy</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Trump’s ‘Stone Age’ threat draws fury from Iranians</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[President Trump’s threat to bomb Iran’s infrastructure and “send it back to the stone ages,” followed by strikes that reportedly included a not-yet-opened bridge, has sparked anger among Iranians at home and abroad.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:19:57 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Iran’s wartime messaging targets its own citizens</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s state broadcaster has adopted a noticeably harsher tone toward dissent, increasingly framing domestic protests as part of a war waged by “enemies.”]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/politics">Domestic Politics</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>Iran child recruitment amounts to war crime, Amnesty says </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Amnesty International said on Thursday that Iran’s recruitment of children as young as 12 for roles linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps amounts to a war crime.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:55:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-human-rights">Human Rights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/military-conflict">Military</category>
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      <title>Iran’s Pezeshkian faces hardline backlash over conditional war-end offer</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604026228</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is facing a fierce political backlash after signaling a conditional willingness to end the war, exposing deep divisions within Iran’s political and military establishment over diplomacy versus continued conflict.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:23:03 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Iran state TV warns public against disclosing officials’ hiding places</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202604020258</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian state television has escalated its messaging by warning citizens not to reveal the locations of officials hiding among civilians.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:53:34 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>‘War must end—but so must the regime’: civilians speak from under fire</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Relentless airstrikes by Israel and the United States have transformed life across Iran, reshaping cities and daily routines while leaving millions caught between fear, resilience, and deeply divided views on the war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Drug shortages push essential medicines in Iran to record prices</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Residents told Iran International that severe shortages and soaring prices for key medicines, including insulin and blood thinners, have persisted over the past month, with some insulin brands reaching seventy million rials (≈$46.7).]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:52:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Goldman Paris under police watch after bomb threat linked to Iran group</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Paris offices of Goldman Sachs were placed under police surveillance after a bomb threat believed to be linked to an Iranian group, Le Parisien reported.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:45:56 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/world-en">World</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>Iran executes protest detainee over Basij base fire case</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s judiciary said on Thursday it had carried out the execution of Amirhossein Hatami, a protest detainee convicted in a case linked to a fire at a Basij base in Tehran during January protests.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:59:31 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-human-rights">Human Rights</category>
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      <title>War follows us Iranian scientists far from home</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[I have learned as an Iranian-American scientist that war and politics rarely remain outside the laboratory for scholars from the Middle East, following us into our visas, our collaborations and even our ability to concentrate on our work.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 03:46:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War tests Iran’s Dubai trade lifeline</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The war pitting the United States and Israel against Iran is being fought across airspace and shipping lanes, but one of its most consequential economic effects may be unfolding elsewhere: the fragile commercial relationship between Tehran and the United Arab Emirates.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War and inflation batter Iran’s workforce</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s economy is entering the new fiscal year under the weight of a profound wartime shock, with inflation reaching levels not seen in decades and essential goods becoming increasingly unaffordable for much of the population.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:16:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When Iran’s war images become a battle of belief</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A heated online dispute over photographs showing civilian victims of strikes in Iranian cities has exposed both the deep mistrust many Iranians feel toward official information and a widening rift among the public itself over how to interpret images emerging from the war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Acclaimed filmmaker Jafar Panahi returns to Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has returned to Iran, informed sources told Iran International, after traveling abroad for an international awards campaign.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:37:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Three more arrested in London Jewish ambulance arson probe</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[British police arrested three more people on Wednesday in connection with an arson attack on volunteer-run ambulances serving the Jewish community in Golders Green.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:17:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Dubai crackdown hits Iran’s economic lifeline, squeezes IRGC networks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The arrest of dozens of IRGC-linked money changers in the United Arab Emirates is one of the most serious blows yet to Tehran’s sanctions-evasion network, laying bare how heavily the Islamic Republic has depended on Dubai as an economic lifeline.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:11:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Argentina designates Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Argentina has designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization, broadening a years-long effort by Buenos Aires to hold Tehran and its proxies responsible for the deadliest attacks in the country’s history.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:02:04 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>IRGC takes de facto control of Iran government amid deepening power struggle</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Rising tensions between the Pezeshkian administration and Iran’s military leadership have pushed the president into a “complete political deadlock,” with the Revolutionary Guard effectively assuming control over key state functions, informed sources told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Child recruit’s death shows Iran prioritizing regime survival over civilians</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The death of 11-year-old Alireza Jafari, the first known child recruit killed during the Iran war, underscores what rights advocates describe as a governing doctrine that places regime survival above civilian protection amid mounting wartime pressure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Khameneism after Khamenei- why Mojtaba represents continuity, not change</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The rise of Mojtaba Khamenei is not an unexpected deviation within the Islamic Republic—it is the logical outcome of a system carefully engineered over nearly four decades by Ali Khamenei.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:42:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran’s inflation surges further as consumer prices hit new highs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s official data show inflation accelerating again amid a war with the United States and Israel, with prices more than fivefold higher than in 2021 and food costs rising even faster, hitting poorer and rural households hardest despite signs of monthly easing.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:57:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Leaked IRGC manual shows systematic use of civilian sites as missile cover</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A leaked internal directive from the IRGC’s missile command appears to show that the use of civilian locations to conceal, support and in some cases facilitate missile launch operations is not ad hoc, but structured, documented and built into operational planning.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ghalibaf and Trump escalate rhetoric as prospects for talks remain vague</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As the war enters its fifth week, tensions between Tehran and Washington are rising, with both sides sending mixed signals over diplomacy and the risk of further escalation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Talks with Iran would &apos;let cancer spread&apos;, dissident behind viral video says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Iranian man whose viral plea for Donald Trump’s help drew millions of views says he was forced to flee the country after being targeted by the Revolutionary Guard, warning from exile that negotiating with Tehran would allow its repression to continue.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:28:41 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran’s military uses schools and civilian sites during US-Israeli war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s security and military forces moved personnel, weapons and equipment into at least 70 civilian sites during the US-Israeli airstrikes, an Iran International investigation found, exposing what appears to be a nationwide pattern of using public spaces for military purposes.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Presence of Iraqi militias in Iran sparks fears of renewed repression</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dismay and alarm are spreading among Iranians over reports and images showing Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, or Hashd al-Shaabi, inside Iran, with messages sent to Iran International describing fear, anger and a growing sense of insecurity.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:51:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran says envoy will stay in Beirut despite Lebanon expulsion order</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran said on Monday its ambassador to Lebanon would remain in Beirut despite a Lebanese order to leave, turning a diplomatic reprimand into a broader test of how far the Lebanese state can push back when its decisions collide with the interests of Tehran and Hezbollah.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:18:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Jihad Nasr: The infrastructure empire inside Iran’s state economy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Jihad Nasr spent decades at the center of Islamic Republic projects spanning water, housing and energy, as well as nuclear-linked construction and overseas ventures, as a state-backed network built under reformist-era politics dug deep into Iran’s infrastructure economy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:28:43 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Trump’s Iran remarks leave markets guessing</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump offered an upbeat but confusing picture of his approach to Iran on Sunday, saying a deal could come soon even as he floated the possibility of seizing Iranian oil and hinted at military options that could deepen the conflict.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 03:06:23 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>The day the Iran war reached a school in Minab</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Newly released surveillance footage appears to show repeated strikes hitting a primary school in the southern Iranian city of Minab on the first day of the war, an attack Iranian authorities say killed more than 100 children and teachers.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Unlocking Iran&apos;s potential: a trillion-dollar opportunity for America in a free Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States can seize the moment to support regime change and forge a strategic partnership with a democratic Iran that could yield over $1 trillion in revenue for American firms over the next decade. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:32:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Rift deepens between Iran’s president and Guards chief over war, economy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Serious disagreements have emerged between Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian and IRGC chief-commander Ahmad Vahidi over how to manage the war and its damaging impact on people’s livelihoods and the economy, sources with knowledge of the matter told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:17:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian expats say UAE canceled their residency visas, leaving many stranded</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United Arab Emirates has in recent days canceled the residency visas of Iranians outside the country, leaving some stranded abroad, according to accounts and information received by Iran International from affected individuals.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:57:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US waiver on Iran sanctions redirects oil flows from China toward India</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Washington’s sanctions waiver, introduced during the Iran war to ease oil supply pressure, is channeling discounted crude away from China and toward India, strengthening energy ties with New Delhi.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:37:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>&apos;Iran’s threat is global&apos;: Experts call Diego Garcia strike a wake-up call</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s recent attempted strike on a joint UK–US military base in the Indian Ocean, some 4,000 km from its territory, marks more than an escalation — it is a wake-up call for the West, experts told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 20:56:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>Why Iran war may not follow the region’s familiar script</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[It may be too early to issue verdicts on the war unfolding around Iran since conflicts of this scale rarely follow the scripts imagined in their first weeks and early judgments often prove premature.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:40:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran still depends on Hormuz despite years of workarounds</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s plans to reduce its reliance on the Strait of Hormuz appear to have delivered little practical change so far, according to tanker-tracking data from Kpler obtained by Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:45:02 GMT</pubDate>
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