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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, damaging the vessel’s bridge but causing no casualties, The Wall Street Journal reported citing two senior US officials.
Summary
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked a Singapore-flagged cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, damaging the vessel’s bridge but causing no casualties, The Wall Street Journal reported citing two senior US officials.
Rival visions of Iran take to the streets during Ashura
Iran's Ashura commemorations have again become a stage for competing political narratives, with government supporters and opponents alike using Shi'ite mourning rituals to advance sharply different messages.
Unveiled in wartime, targeted in peacetime?
Many Iranians fear that a diplomatic opening with the United States could come at the cost of renewed social restrictions at home, as reports of stricter hijab enforcement begin circulating following the recent war.
Canada sends mixed signals on Tehran embassy reopening
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday called for broader diplomatic engagement with Iran, saying embassies do not amount to endorsement, one day after his Foreign Ministry told Iran International it was not considering reopening its embassy in Tehran.
FIFA lets fans take rainbow flags to Iran-Egypt match, but bars Lion and Sun
FIFA said fans will be allowed to bring rainbow flags to Egypt’s World Cup group match against Iran in Seattle on Friday, while barring Iran’s pre-revolutionary “Lion and Sun” flag from World Cup venues on the grounds that political symbols are prohibited.
Economy
Iran’s negotiators have 60 days; its factories may not
Iran’s negotiators have opened a renewable 60-day clock. Its factories may not have that long. The Chamber of Commerce’s own PMI survey shows warehouses emptying, orders drying up and production lines at risk of stoppage within months.
Power, water outages disrupt daily life across Iran
Daily electricity and water outages disrupted life across Iran as summer began, with residents blaming years of underinvestment and deteriorating infrastructure despite officials citing rising demand and shrinking water supplies.
CoinEx became key channel for Iranian crypto flows – WSJ
Iranian entities moved more than $3.84 billion in cryptocurrency through the Seychelles-based exchange CoinEx over the past six years, helping connect Iran's crypto ecosystem to global markets despite US sanctions, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday.
North Korea received $25 million for Iran tunnel technology, ex-diplomat says
A former North Korean diplomat said Pyongyang received about $25 million for providing Iran with tunnel technology that he understood was used extensively at underground nuclear facilities near Natanz and Isfahan.
Omani shipping corridor rattles Iran hardliners over Hormuz control
An ultraconservative Iranian outlet warned on Wednesday that a temporary shipping corridor announced by Oman in coordination with the International Maritime Organization could become a “direct challenge” to Iran’s position in the Strait of Hormuz.
US sanctions waiver could bring Iran's oil trade out of the shadows
The United States' new Iran sanctions waiver could do more than boost Iranian oil exports. It may also help shift Iranian energy trade from shadow networks back toward conventional global markets.
EXCLUSIVE
Sources detail Ali Khamenei bunker with blast-resistant room
An underground complex built by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) to protect former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei included a blast-resistant room and escape tunnels beneath central Tehran, according to information received by Iran International.
EXCLUSIVE
Opium for survival: Inside a shift in Iran’s Zagros villages
Opium poppy cultivation in some villages of the Zagros mountains in western Iran has evolved from a hidden, scattered practice into an essential part of the rural subsistence economy, an Iran International investigation found.
Israel smuggled tens of thousands of Starlink systems into Iran, former PM says
Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Tuesday that Israel had smuggled tens of thousands of Starlink internet receivers into Iran to help anti-government protesters, but said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government did not complete the effort.
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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.
