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President Donald Trump canceled the planned Pakistan trip by US envoys for Iran talks, saying Tehran’s offer was “not good enough” and that Iran sent an improved version within minutes of the cancellation.
Summary
President Donald Trump canceled the planned Pakistan trip by US envoys for Iran talks, saying Tehran’s offer was “not good enough” and that Iran sent an improved version within minutes of the cancellation.
Iran executes protester over January uprising
Iran executed a man on Saturday over his involvement in January anti-establishment protests, whom authorities said acted on behalf of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service.
Iranian national charged in US over migrant smuggling scheme
A US federal indictment has charged an Iranian national with coordinating a large-scale migrant smuggling operation into the United States, the Justice Department said on Friday.
PODCAST
US should use Iran talks leverage to help Iranian people, veteran journalist says
With US-Iran talks in Pakistan in doubt after Iran's foreign minister left Islamabad and President Trump canceled the planned trip by US negotiators, veteran journalist Eli Lake says Washington should use its leverage not only on the nuclear file, but to help the people of Iran.
War-Torn Economy
ANALYSIS
Iran’s economy after the March war: how bad can it get?
Iran’s economy is heading into a period of sharp deterioration following the March war, with mounting pressure from inflation, currency depreciation and damage to key industries raising the risk of a broader crisis.
Behind Tehran’s unity show: The secret letter to the shadow king
The real story behind Tehran’s sudden “unity” campaign did not begin with Donald Trump’s accusations of disarray within Iran’s leadership. It began with a secret letter to Mojtaba Khamenei.
Iran officials project unity after Trump leadership remarks
Iranian officials rushed to present a unified front after US President Donald Trump questioned who leads the Islamic Republic, highlighting sensitivities over internal divisions and uncertainty at the top of the political system.
Power vacuum in Tehran emboldens hardliners
As debate over a ceasefire and renewed talks with the United States intensifies, the absence of a clear supreme arbiter in Tehran appears to be giving Iran’s hardliners more room to shape the narrative and to hinder any eventual agreement.
EXCLUSIVE
Iran negotiating team head Ghalibaf quits
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, head of Iran’s negotiating team with the United States, has stepped down amid internal disagreements, sources familiar with the matter told Iran International.
Starmer pledges to move on banning Iran's IRGC in next parliament session
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer pledged to introduce legislation to proscribe Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the next parliamentary session, in an interview with the Jewish Chronicle.
Two men accused of spying for Iran to appear in London’s Old Bailey court
Two men accused of carrying out surveillance on Jewish and Israeli-linked sites in London on behalf of Iran are due to appear at the Central Criminal Court on Friday for a preliminary hearing.
UK’s LBC finds alleged Iran-linked channel hiring Britons for sabotage
A journalist from LBC was offered payment by an alleged Iran-linked contact to carry out a street-level act of vandalism within hours of contact, the British broadcaster reported on Friday.
Iran to add US-Israel war to school curriculum amid ceasefire
Iran plans to include the recent war with the United States and Israel in school textbooks, the education minister said, referring to what officials call the “third imposed war,” the latest conflict now under a ceasefire extended by US President Donald Trump.
Exiled prince dismisses Iran negotiators as part of repression system
The Islamic Republic’s negotiators in talks with the US are “different faces of the same machine,” that suppresses the Iranian people, exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi said at a press conference in Berlin on Thursday.
Iran Guards say two ships seized in Hormuz after ceasefire extension
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said it had seized two vessels in the Strait of Hormuz and directed them toward Iranian shores, hours after Donald Trump said the United States would extend a ceasefire with Iran.
IRGC-linked media hints at threat to Persian Gulf undersea internet cables
IRGC-linked Tasnim has pointedly mapped the Persian Gulf’s undersea internet cables and cloud infrastructure in what appears to be a thinly veiled warning that the region’s digital backbone may now be in Iran’s line of fire.
ANALYSIS
Internet Pro or Censor Pro? Iran rolls out a new service
Iran’s new “Internet Pro” rollout may tighten state control in the short term, but experts who spoke to Iran International question whether the Islamic Republic can sustain a class-based internet in one of the Middle East’s most connected societies.
INSIGHT
War or economic collapse: can Iran withstand the pressure?
Iran’s economy is likely to buckle faster than the United States or the global economy under the combined pressure of war, sanctions, a US blockade and Tehran’s disruption of the Strait of Hormuz, experts said at Iran International’s townhall in Washington DC.
Lights out, then gunfire: Witnesses recount Mashhad protest crackdown
A 32-year-old protester in Mashhad, northeastern Iran, stood in the street as the lights flickered out and the mobile network went dead, believing he had only a one-in-five chance of making it out alive.
Family told missing teen was alive, then received his body 60 days later
A 14-year-old student disappeared during protests near Tehran on January 8, only for his family to receive his body 60 days later with a gunshot wound to the temple, Iran International has learned.
Iran crackdown reaches cemeteries as graves of slain protesters defaced
Iranian authorities have stepped up pressure on families of those killed in January protests, defacing, destroying or covering graves with cement in the northern city of Rasht and the capital Tehran, local sources told Iran International.
ANALYSIS
The politics of pink: how Iran uses cuteness to rebrand violence
Pink missiles, pink drones and pink firearms. Women with uncovered hair—braids, ponytails, short bobs—stood beside weapons, waved flags and smiled for cameras in scenes broadcast across Iranian media. Tehran appears willing to try almost anything to preserve power.
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INSIGHT
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