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      <title>Kayhan opens fire on diplomacy, warns Iran risks losing leverage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As Iran hosted senior Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani officials for security talks on Monday, an influential hardline newspaper editor warned that the diplomatic initiative could undermine Tehran's position and relieve pressure on the United States.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq orders arrest of provincial leader amid tensions over Iran ties</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:04:21 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Bessent says Iran economy will contract by more than 25%</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, in an interview with Iran International, warned Iranians to stock up on gasoline and heating fuel ahead of expected shortages, predicting the economy would shrink by more than a quarter in the year ending March 2027.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 17:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Two Iran Air retirees died after forgoing treatment over cost</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 16:05:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/economy-and-environment">Economy &amp; Environment</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:45:02 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Flour shortages force bakeries to close across Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Flour shortages have forced bakeries to close in several Iranian cities and pushed up bread prices, with residents and bakers reporting disrupted supplies, falling purchasing power and growing uncertainty over their businesses.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 12:08:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Netanyahu’s Iranian supporters pin hopes for change on his re-election</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranians are looking to Israel's election as a potential turning point in their country's future, with supporters of Benjamin Netanyahu hoping his victory will bring renewed pressure on the Islamic Republic.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 11:35:26 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mecca defense pact members hold talks with Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Senior officials from Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey opened talks with Iranian authorities in Tehran on Monday, following increased Iran-backed Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and renewed warnings of military action between Tehran and Washington.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:56:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Qatar pushes for Iran deal, new US strikes remain possible</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A renewed diplomatic push to avert another round of the US-Iran war gathered pace on Sunday, with Qatari mediators in Tehran as President Donald Trump publicly weighed reaching an agreement with the Islamic Republic against taking further military action.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:42:43 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Trump weighs Iran deal or military action as Netanyahu warns of attacks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was weighing whether to reach a deal with Iran or take further military action, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Tehran against launching attacks to disrupt Israel's upcoming parliamentary elections.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:13:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Sri Lanka rescues 40 Iranian sailors from stranded ships</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Sri Lanka rescued 40 Iranian sailors from commercial ships in international waters off its coast following medical emergencies and helped arrange their return to Iran, foreign ministry spokesman Thushara Rodrigo said on Sunday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:35:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran indicts comedian over alleged support for Israel, Pahlavi dynasty</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's judiciary has indicted comedian Saeed Shakiba on charges including supporting Israel and the Pahlavi dynasty, state media reported on Sunday, days after authorities opened a case against him over a video impersonating former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.  ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 15:27:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel&apos;s Eisenkot praises Trump strikes on Iran, warns of nuclear threat</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Former Israeli military chief Gadi Eisenkot praised US President Donald Trump's decision to launch strikes against Iran alongside Israel and warned that Tehran was seeking to develop nuclear weapons, in an interview with the New York Post.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 14:01:06 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Saudi Arabia intercepts Houthi missiles, drones as Yemen fighting continues</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Saudi Arabia intercepted drones and missiles over Riyadh and southern parts of the country on Sunday as fighting with Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis continued, the Saudi-led coalition said.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:07:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran nearing mental-health emergency, psychology chief says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran may be approaching a mental-health emergency as prolonged uncertainty over war, economic pressure and the future takes a growing toll on the public, the head of the country’s Psychology and Counseling Organization said on Sunday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 09:46:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>From six-day victory to wars of attrition: How has Israel ended its wars?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The war with Iran raises a familiar question for Israel: Can battlefield gains produce lasting peace? Its military history offers mixed answers, from unresolved victories to withdrawals and ceasefires that left adversaries armed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 07:44:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran sends conflicting signals on US deal as Trump raises prospect of strikes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Tehran has offered to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if Washington lifted its naval blockade, Iran’s envoy to Pakistan said Saturday, while an IRGC-affiliated outlet rejected such an exchange and President Donald Trump raised the possibility of strikes as soon as “tomorrow.”]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:35:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iraq faces renewed Iran war spillover despite pledge to stay out</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Baghdad’s pledge to stay out of renewed fighting is being tested by reported Israeli jet flights toward Iran through Iraqi airspace, suspected strikes on militia stores reportedly holding Chinese-made air defenses, and drone attacks on Iranian Kurdish opposition bases.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>Iranians vent anger over rising costs of slow, restricted internet</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranians say they are paying more for slow, unreliable and heavily restricted internet after mobile operators raised data prices by up to 40%, with some reporting that their allowances run out unusually quickly.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:22:55 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran-born former Mossad officer running for Knesset urges end of Islamic Republic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nazanin Sharifian, an Iran-born former Mossad officer running for Israel’s parliament with Gadi Eisenkot’s Yashar party, told Iran International that Israel should step up military and economic pressure on the Islamic Republic’s leaders and work to end their rule.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 16:58:05 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel’s leaders have long wanted Iran’s rulers gone. They differ only on how</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In 1987, with Khomeini still calling for Israel’s destruction, Israel’s defense minister called Iran its best friend. Today every candidate for prime minister wants the Islamic Republic gone. Israel’s leaders have changed their minds about Iran’s rulers, but seldom disagreed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 11:49:33 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/israel">Israel</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">Israel’s leaders have long wanted Iran’s rulers gone. They differ only on how</media:title>
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      <title>Baluch insurgency tests the limits of a war-weakened Islamic Republic</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Armed Baluch groups in Iran’s southeast are adding one more strain on the Islamic Republic’s security forces just as war has stretched them thinnest, with 18 attacks in the 18 days to October 10, more than in any full month this year. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:03:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>Pakistan talks peace with Iran, defends Saudis against Tehran’s proxies</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Pakistan is mediating between Iran and the United States even as it sends troops to defend Saudi Arabia against attacks by Tehran’s allies, placing Islamabad in the conflicting roles of peace broker and military partner to Iran’s rivals.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 03:03:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US strikes on Iran now serve the blockade</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A possible resumption of US strikes on Iran would serve an increasingly economic war, weakening Tehran’s ability to challenge a blockade that Washington appears prepared to maintain for the foreseeable future.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:07:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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      <title>US and Iran trade new threats as diplomacy yields no breakthrough</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Washington and Tehran traded increasingly hostile threats on Friday, with President Donald Trump raising the possibility of further military action and Iranian officials warning of attacks on regional infrastructure, while diplomatic efforts in Istanbul produced no breakthrough.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:44:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Salvation or tragedy? Iranians debate prospect of another war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Escalating war rhetoric from Iran, the United States and Israel, coupled with military movements across the region, has heightened fears of another conflict, as Iranians debate online whether war could bring political change or deepen the country's crises.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 20:08:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>More patrols, slower internet suggest Tehran is bracing for trouble</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Armed security forces and checkpoints have become more visible across Iran, according to witness reports sent to Iran International, while internet access has deteriorated amid fears of fresh unrest and another round of war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:21:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>Iran’s evasion network survives, but the crude feeding it has run dry</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran still has the knowhow, middlemen and shadow-fleet infrastructure it spent years developing to sell sanctioned oil to China. But it has now run out of oil outside Iran to put through that system.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 15:18:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran International’s Maryam Rahmati wins UN correspondents association award</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran International’s New York correspondent Maryam Rahmati has won bronze in the broadcast journalism category of the 2026 United Nations Correspondents Association awards, the association announced.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 13:31:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US says it can sustain Iran blockade for ‘foreseeable future’</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The United States is tightening economic pressure on Iran to bolster efforts to reach a diplomatic solution and can sustain its naval blockade for the foreseeable future, the US Ambassador to the UN said, as President Donald Trump weighs renewed strikes after midterm elections.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 11:32:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Reform UK donor had ties to Iran supreme leader-linked foundation - Guardian</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A billionaire donor to Britain’s Reform UK party was previously involved in a business venture with Astan Quds Razavi, a powerful Iranian religious foundation under the authority of the country’s supreme leader, the Guardian reported.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:08:03 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian state-linked hackers used US server to target dissidents, researchers say</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Iranian state-sponsored hacking group used command-and-control infrastructure hosted in the United States this year after a months-long pause in operations, according to cybersecurity firm Semperis.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 08:33:45 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Once US blockaded Iran, China’s ‘Malaysian’ oil imports dried up</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[China's imports of oil recorded as Malaysian have plunged alongside the collapse of Iranian exports under the US naval blockade, suggesting how heavily Iran relied on relabeling its crude for its biggest customer.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 06:58:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Istanbul meeting: A new division of labor in the Iran war?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Turkey will host the foreign ministers of seven countries on Friday for talks on the Iran-US war, security in the Strait of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, developments in Yemen and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 02:40:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran is running out of economic escape routes</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s options for financing trade are narrowing under a US maritime blockade that is squeezing oil revenue, while efforts to freeze Iranian cryptocurrency funds are putting alternative channels for moving money under pressure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:48:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran’s trade squeeze spreads from sea to land</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Border closures and transit disruptions involving Pakistan, Iraq and Turkey are raising fears that Iran’s remaining trade routes could be further restricted, deepening the impact of US maritime and air restrictions.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:11:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>China values Iran but won&apos;t pay any price to defend it</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610227980</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[China regards its relationship with Iran as largely transactional and is not firmly committed to defending the current Iranian government, according to Tong Zhao, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:55:42 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran plot suspect says he was told to break journalist’s arms and legs</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A man accused of plotting attacks on Iran International journalists told a London court on Thursday that his Iranian handlers had instructed him to break one journalist’s arms and legs and assault another to stop him from criticizing the Islamic Republic.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 16:45:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘Living in despair’: uncertainty, economic turmoil erode hope in Iran</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202610229764</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Repeated economic and political crises are eroding Iranians' belief that their lives can improve, with official figures showing declining social capital, widespread perceptions of injustice and deepening distrust of the government.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:26:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US blockade leaves Iran with millions of tons of surplus LPG</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's LPG exports have collapsed since the US naval blockade began in mid-July, leaving Tehran to find domestic uses for millions of tons of propane and butane that would normally be sold abroad.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:02:27 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>German regulator orders liquidation of Bank Saderat Iran’s Hamburg branch</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Germany’s financial regulator BaFin said on Thursday that Bank Saderat Iran’s Hamburg branch had lost its banking license and must be wound up. The branch, which operated in Hamburg and Frankfurt, is no longer allowed to conduct banking business.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:07:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran upholds protester&apos;s death sentence over $56 property damage</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a protester arrested during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement over an explosion that his lawyer says caused about $56 in property damage, the Emtedad news channel reported Wednesday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 02:00:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran plot suspect says he discussed journalists at London embassy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A man accused of plotting an attack on Iran International journalists told a London court Wednesday that he met an alleged Revolutionary Guards contact at the Iranian embassy while he was gathering information on the journalists.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:26:20 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War warnings and talk of diplomacy compete in Tehran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian leaders raised the conditions for negotiations with the United States and issued fresh warnings of a wider military response on Wednesday, even as signs persisted that Tehran was leaving room for diplomacy.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:26:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel bars United Airlines pilot over alleged Iran links - Ynet</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Israel has barred a United Airlines pilot of Iranian descent from serving on flights to the country over unverified social media allegations that he supported Iran's government, the Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah, Ynet reported Wednesday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:04:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian twin sisters, one sentenced to death and the other to 36 years in prison over January's anti-government protests, have been named among three finalists for the European Parliament's 2026 Sakharov Prize.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:51:36 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:17:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed Iran with US envoy Steve Witkoff on Wednesday and offered Moscow’s help, shortly after Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Tehran as Russia seeks a role in efforts to end the Iran-US conflict.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:38:06 GMT</pubDate>
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