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Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi said a parliamentary committee had finalized a plan for managing the Strait of Hormuz and sent it for review, saying Tehran wanted to use the waterway as a source of leverage.
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Iranian lawmaker Ebrahim Azizi said a parliamentary committee had finalized a plan for managing the Strait of Hormuz and sent it for review, saying Tehran wanted to use the waterway as a source of leverage.
Iran analysts pessimistic on US talks despite China’s role
Iranian former diplomats and political analysts struck a pessimistic tone in Wednesday’s media ahead of Donald Trump’s talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, warning of renewed escalation and portraying China as central to any Iran-US settlement.
Tehran and Beijing close ranks as Trump heads to China
Ahead of Donald Trump’s arrival in Beijing, Iranian officials rejected suggestions that US pressure could weaken Iran-China ties amid growing speculation over a possible Chinese mediation role in the Iran conflict.
Iran looks to China for guarantees in future US deal
Iran is increasingly looking to China not just as an economic partner, but as the only major power capable of offering credible guarantees in both the Persian Gulf and any future agreement between Tehran and Washington.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Tehran quake stirs dark humor, hopes for renewed strikes
A series of tremors in and around Tehran late Tuesday stirred shock, dark humor and political despair among residents, with some initially mistaking them for renewed US-Israeli strikes.
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How one Tehran hospital became a window into Iran’s January massacre
Alghadir hospital in east Tehran is one of the places where the January massacre could be seen in full: a five-body morgue overflowing, blood on the floors, and families searching through blankets and body covers for the people they loved.
Cambridge probes Iran scholar over alleged fabricated interviews
A University of Arkansas Iranian-American professor fired from her tenured position in late March is now facing investigations in Britain over allegations of academic misconduct tied to her research on Iran.
Iran executes man over accusations of spying for Israel
Iran executed Ehsan Afrashteh on Wednesday on accusations of espionage and intelligence cooperation with Israel, the judiciary’s Mizan News reported.
Iranian poet faces execution after review of death sentence denied
Iranian poet Peyman Farahavar remains at risk of execution after the country’s Supreme Court rejected his request for judicial review, a rights group said on Tuesday.
Suspected IRGC agent offered Briton money to target journalist - Jewish Chronicle
A British-Iranian man said a suspected Iran-linked agent offered him £40,000 ($53,000) to kill a London-based journalist critical of Tehran, the Jewish Chronicle reported.
Iran has failed to export crude oil by sea for 28 days - TankerTrackers
Iran has not successfully exported any crude oil by sea for 28 days amid the US naval blockade imposed in April, according to ship-tracking data from TankerTrackers, while loading activity at Kharg Island remains disrupted following a suspected oil spill near the terminal.
War-Torn Economy
Iran businesses scale back as inflation, internet curbs bite
Businesses across Iran are cutting jobs, scaling back operations and facing possible closure as internet disruptions, inflation and the economic fallout from war deepen pressure on employers and consumers, according to messages sent to Iran International.
Iran's carpet exports collapse from $2.5 billion to near zero, official says
Iran's handwoven carpet exports, once worth nearly $2.5 billion annually, have now "virtually stopped," a provincial industry official said, reflecting the steep decline of one of the country's best-known exports.
As Iran’s economy sinks, hardliners turn to conspiracy
As prices continue to soar across Iran, hardline clerics and pro-government figures are increasingly attempting to shift blame away from the state even as economic pressure deepens for ordinary citizens.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Iranians told to post pro-government content to regain internet access
Some Iranians say security bodies blocked their internet or SIM cards over alleged online activity against the Islamic Republic, then demanded pro-government posts, written pledges and guarantors to restore access, according to messages sent to Iran International.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Iranians describe toll of 70 days of internet restrictions
Australia sanctions Iranian officials, entities over crackdown and destabilizing activity
Australia sanctioned seven Iranian individuals and four entities on Tuesday over what it called the Islamic Republic’s crackdown on protesters and women and its destabilizing activity through missile and shadow-banking networks.
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Tehran’s youth emerge from war more cynical, not more hopeful
On Sanaei Street in central Tehran, young people spill onto pavements and crowd around tiny tables late into the evening, smoking and laughing as if the war never happened.
Abroad they talk, at home they hang
One thing never stops here: executions. War or no war, talks or no talks, crisis or calm, the machinery moves at its own pace: steady and unbroken, as if insulated from everything else.
Tehran is pricing out its daughters
The future has been switched off here
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