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The US-Iran talks slated for Bürgenstock on Friday was cancelled, the Swiss foreign ministry said.
Summary
The US-Iran talks slated for Bürgenstock on Friday was cancelled, the Swiss foreign ministry said.
War-Torn Economy
ANALYSIS
A US-Iran deal alone won't rescue Iran's oil economy
The memorandum of understanding signed on Thursday has prompted fresh hopes of an economic revival in Iran. But even a successful US-Iran agreement may do far less for the country's oil industry than many supporters expect.
Iran Protests
UN experts warn Iran-US MoU leaves Iranian people behind
UN experts on Friday welcomed the signing of a 14-point memorandum of understanding between the United States and Iran but warned that any final agreement that fails to address human rights in Iran would be “fundamentally incomplete.”
INSIGHT
Who in Tehran is opposing a deal with Washington?
A message attributed to Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei and the swift reactions from President Masoud Pezeshkian and chief negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf highlighted the uneasy coalition behind the agreement with the United States and the lingering doubts about it.
A fragile compact: ambiguities that could undermine US-Iran MoU
The Memorandum of Understanding concluded this week between Washington and Tehran may help halt active hostilities and reopen one of the world's most important waterways, but its durability is far less certain than its supporters suggest.
Tehran's familiar battle lines return over deal with US
Hardline opposition in Iran to the Islamabad MoU increasingly resembles the reaction of ultraconservatives to the 2015 nuclear deal.
ANALYSIS
Iran's Qatar power link exposes a deeper energy dilemma
Iran's plan to connect its electricity grid to Qatar highlights a growing paradox at the heart of the country's energy strategy: even as Tehran seeks a larger regional role through cross-border energy diplomacy, it faces one of the worst domestic power shortages in decades.
US probes Iran’s Supreme Leader's money flows through Wall Street banks
The US Justice Department is investigating how Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei built a global investment portfolio with exposure to Wall Street banks, Bloomberg reported, citing four officials with direct knowledge of the matter.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Iranians say US deal leaves people out of the equation
As Tehran and Washington move toward a memorandum to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, messages from inside Iran show anger that the deal speaks of uranium, Lebanon and money, while ordinary Iranians remain absent from the text.
SPECIAL REPORT
Atlas of Iran missile cities: The hidden network behind Tehran’s missile power
Across mountains, deserts and valleys, the Islamic Republic built a hidden missile network meant to project power from Israel to the Persian Gulf. Iran International maps the bases, tunnels, shafts and missile lineage behind Tehran’s arsenal, and how two wars exposed its limits.
INSIGHT
Can Iranians cheer Team Melli without cheering the state?
Iran’s World Cup match with New Zealand was not just a football game but a rare glimpse into the trauma and deep divisions many Iranians carry at home and abroad.
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Tehran Insider
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.
