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      <title>44% in Iran International poll would not buy home in Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Nearly half of respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they would not buy a home in Iran even if they had enough money, with comments pointing to economic insecurity, emigration plans and concerns over keeping wealth in the country.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[US and Iranian forces exchanged attacks on Sunday after a week of intensive regional diplomacy failed to break the deadlock between Tehran and Washington, marking a renewed military escalation following heightened economic pressure.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:09:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:06:25 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:05:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranians tell of shrinking paths to study abroad</title>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 11:47:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:10:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian students seeking admission to universities abroad are facing new uncertainty over access to tests such as TOEFL, GRE and Duolingo after Washington suspended a 12-year sanctions authorization covering academic exchanges, admissions services and standardized exams.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 03:31:30 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>What the US-Venezuela oil model could mean for Iran’s energy future</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The emerging US-Venezuela oil partnership could offer a model for how Iran’s vast but underinvested energy industry might be revived under a future government able to restore ties with the West, while also reshaping oil flows in Europe.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 01:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian photographer Maryam Saeedpoor has been named Fine Art Photographer of the Year at the 2026 International Photography Awards for her wartime series “Painful hug,” placing her among the finalists for the competition’s top professional prize.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:34:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Treasury Department’s opener for Operation Economic Outcast, launched Monday to cut Iran’s remaining income, suggests Washington sees Dubai, Istanbul and Baghdad — not Beijing — as the critical channels for Tehran’s money.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:40:44 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A letter expressing solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners has ignited an extraordinary ideological backlash, raising concerns among human rights advocates about how political narratives and disinformation can shape perceptions of repression in Iran.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 10:36:34 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s trade with Dubai is showing growing signs of strain under the war and Washington’s new economic campaign, but sanctioned Iranian banks, flights and some commercial routes continue to operate despite calls for a sweeping cutoff, the Financial Times reported Saturday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 06:17:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s large-scale fuel losses appear to go beyond the smuggling cited by officials in Tehran, with evidence pointing to organized diversion within the country’s fuel distribution system.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:25:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[China’s refusal to bow to US sanctions has raised hopes in Tehran that Beijing could blunt Washington’s new economic offensive, but a debate inside Iran reveals doubts over how far China is willing or able to go on Iran’s behalf.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:09:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US has opened a new front in its economic campaign against Iran by threatening to cut a major third-country bank out of the dollar system over alleged involvement in Tehran’s shadow-banking network.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>War or deal? Rezaei begins to define Iran’s price</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Mohsen Rezaei on Friday set out four Iranian conditions for an agreement with the United States, another sign that the former IRGC commander who once championed an “offensive doctrine” may be moving from advocating war to contemplating a deal at the right price.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>US targets Egyptian bank in first strike of economic war against Iran</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The US Treasury moved Friday to cut the UAE branches of Egypt’s Banque Misr off from direct access to the US financial system over alleged dealings with Iran, marking the first major action in Washington’s new “Economic D-Day” campaign against Tehran.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:35:59 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranians are selling their own graves to pay for living </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Dying has become one of the costs Iranians can no longer meet. Burial plots are advertised at years of wages, families are selling the graves they had reserved for themselves, and some are taking their dead to villages where burial is still free.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:58:12 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[A British-Iranian man accused of seeking to assist Iran’s IRGC Quds Force will stand trial next year after prosecutors said he offered his services to Iranian authorities and later took part in an undercover police operation involving a bag he believed contained a drone.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:25:32 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[An Iranian court has sentenced a 27-year-old mechanic to death on charges including cooperation with Mossad and moharebeh, or “waging war against God,” the Hengaw human rights organization reported.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 12:04:56 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iranian banks and businesses remain open in Dubai despite Trump’s D-Day - WSJ</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian banks and businesses continue to operate in Dubai despite Washington’s demand that countries sever their remaining economic links with Tehran, exposing the difficulty of isolating Iran from one of its most important commercial hubs, the Wall Street Journal reported.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:14:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Persian Gulf states pour billions into routes bypassing Hormuz</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Persian Gulf states are accelerating billions of dollars in investment in ports, pipelines and railways to reduce their dependence on the Strait of Hormuz after months of disruption during the Iran war, Reuters reported Friday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:15:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran threatens US economic interests if maritime blockade continues</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran will target US economic interests if Washington maintains its maritime blockade, Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei said Thursday, as the Trump administration steps up efforts to tighten Iran’s economic isolation.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:27:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tehran debates austerity as US targets sanctions lifelines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As Washington targets the financial and trading networks Iran has used to withstand years of sanctions, economists and analysts in Tehran are debating how much more economic hardship the country can absorb to survive a prolonged economic war.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 23:58:01 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Three mediators in three days seek path back to Iran-US talks</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Three regional mediators have visited Tehran in three days in an intensifying diplomatic push to revive Iran-US talks, even as the two sides remain deeply divided over the Strait of Hormuz and Washington’s economic pressure campaign.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:01:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>‘State-sponsored theft’: UN representative calls out rising seizures from Iran’s Bahá’ís</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran’s rising wave of raids, arrests and property seizures against Bahá’ís amounts to “state-sponsored theft,” the Bahá’í International Community’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva said, citing hundreds of incidents since the January crackdown.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:24:47 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran sentences woman detained during January protests to death</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A court in Iran has sentenced Leila Abolhassani, a 43-year-old mother of two teenage daughters detained during the January protests in the central city of Shahin Shahr, to death on charges of “waging war against God,” a source familiar with her case told Iran International.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:19:14 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Man from Supreme Leader&apos;s empire takes the helm of Iran’s biggest online retailer</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two years ago the editor of Iran's most hardline newspaper said management of the country's biggest online retailer would "fortunately" pass to those who serve the state. It is now chaired by a former spokesman for the supreme leader's business empire.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:30:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran&apos;s Bank Melli remains open in Germany despite sanctions</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Bank Melli Iran's branch in Hamburg remains open despite EU sanctions that Germany says apply to the Iranian state-owned bank's German operation, as Washington steps up pressure for its foreign branches to be closed.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:55:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Who is Abolfazl Shekarchi, the Iranian general calling journalists military targets?</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608275755</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Iranian general who has threatened Persian-language journalists abroad as potential military targets has a history of incendiary attacks on critics and was among officials who initially dismissed reports that Iran had shot down Flight PS752.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:42:04 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-human-rights">Human Rights</category>
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      <title>Canada says ex-Iranian official &apos;critical&apos; to revenue tied to terror funding</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608279118</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[A former senior Iranian official living in Toronto played a “critical” role in generating government revenue that helped fund Iran's military, weapons production and armed groups in the Middle East, Global News reported, citing Canadian government documents.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-influence-network">Iran&apos;s Influence Network</category>
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      <title>Trump says he is in no hurry for talks as Iran admits the strain</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608264179</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian officials acknowledged mounting economic strain on Wednesday, and in the same breath restated their conditions for reopening the Strait of Hormuz, as Donald Trump said he was in no hurry to resume talks.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 07:25:42 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/mideast-crisis">Mideast Crisis</category>
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        <media:title type="plain">Trump says he is in no hurry for talks as Iran admits the strain</media:title>
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      <title>Regional diplomacy tests path back to Iran-US talks</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608267306</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Regional diplomacy around Iran appears to be gathering pace, with Pakistan, Oman and potentially Qatar seeking to turn an emerging agreement over the Strait of Hormuz into a path back to negotiations between Tehran and Washington.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 20:39:19 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>Iran sentences two more protesters to death as executions surge</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608268099</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Two more protesters detained during Iran’s nationwide demonstrations in January have been sentenced to death, US-based rights group HRANA reported, amid a rise in executions and capital sentences following the unrest.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:45:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>Tehran debates waiting out Trump’s economic war</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[As Washington intensifies its economic campaign, Iranian politicians and analysts are offering sharply different prescriptions for dealing with the United States: from resistance and phased negotiations to new trade routes or waiting Donald Trump out.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:46:06 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
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      <title>Iran flogs two women detained in January protests</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian authorities flogged two women detained during January’s protests 31 times each before transferring them to prison to serve custodial sentences, according to rights groups.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:12:21 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-human-rights">Human Rights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-protests">Iran Protests</category>
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      <title>Will Mojtaba Khamenei&apos;s absence help the Islamic Republic survive?</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608266234</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Since Mojtaba Khamenei was named the Islamic Republic's third supreme leader, no one has seen him or heard his voice. That looks like weakness. It is worth asking whether it might instead be postponing the system's political death.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:19:59 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>
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      <title>Iran fuel reserves may run dry within weeks, sources say</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608262106</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's drawdown of strategic fuel reserves has reached a “red alert” level and could exhaust remaining stocks within weeks, fueling disagreement between President Masoud Pezeshkian and the Revolutionary Guards, informed sources told Iran International on Wednesday.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:28:08 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Iran plotted to assassinate Netanyahu’s son in Florida – Newsmax</title>
      <link>https://www.iranintl.com/en/202608262254</link>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran allegedly plotted to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s eldest son, Yair, while he was living in South Florida, Newsmax reported on Wednesday, citing a US law enforcement source familiar with the matter.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:24:15 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
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      <title>Family of detained British couple in Iran urges UK action after embassy return</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The family of a British couple detained in Iran called on the UK government on Wednesday to arrange an urgent consular visit and medical checks, saying British diplomats had yet to see them since the embassy returned to the country last week.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:49:13 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Pakistan, Oman mediation visits are White House deception operation – Kayhan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recent visits to Tehran by regional mediators were part of a White House “deception operation,” the hardline Kayhan newspaper said on Wednesday, following separate visits by Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir and Omani Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 05:18:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-en">Iran</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
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      <title>What Operation Economic Outcast means for Iran, and for everyone trading with</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Washington has launched a global campaign to cut off Iran's remaining trade, and its central message is aimed at third countries: keep doing business with Tehran and lose access to the United States. Treasury is calling it an economic D-Day.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:47:54 GMT</pubDate>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-insights">Iran Insights</category>
      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/economy-and-environment">Economy &amp; Environment</category>
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      <title>Iran parliament advances controversial bill that could criminalize foreign contacts</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iran's parliament approved an amended section of a bill aimed at countering foreign influence on Tuesday, setting out definitions for foreign governments, foreign agents and a broad range of contacts with foreign entities, state media reported.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:15:39 GMT</pubDate>
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      <category domain="https://www.iranintl.com/en/iran-politic">Iran Politics</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[Iranian security forces used mosques across Tehran to deploy personnel, monitor protesters and support operations during the January crackdown, evidence obtained by Iran International shows.]]></description>
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      <description><![CDATA[Reports of gasoline shortages spread across Tehran on Monday, with filling stations closing after running out of fuel and motorists describing long searches and queues for increasingly scarce supplies.]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:08:37 GMT</pubDate>
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