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Summary
Iran has conveyed its conditions on the Strait of Hormuz to the US through Pakistan, IRGC-affiliated Tasnim reported on Tuesday.
Summary
Iran has conveyed its conditions on the Strait of Hormuz to the US through Pakistan, IRGC-affiliated Tasnim reported on Tuesday.
What Operation Economic Outcast means for Iran, and for everyone trading with
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.
Iran shrugs off US economic war as analysts sound alarm
Iranian officials have dismissed Washington’s “Economic D-Day” as another failed attempt to cripple the country, but analysts inside Iran warn that an economy weakened by war may be far less capable of absorbing the latest US pressure campaign.
Will Iran bend or escalate as US launches economic war?
Iran’s leadership may see an end to the war as necessary under mounting US economic pressure, but that does not mean Tehran will heed Washington’s demands, experts say, warning that the pressure could instead drive it toward further escalation.
Iran parliament advances controversial bill that could criminalize foreign contacts
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.
ANALYSIS
Iran keeps finding gas. Getting it out is the problem
Iran has announced another major gas discovery, but with the world’s second-largest reserves already beneath its soil, Tehran’s problem is not finding gas but finding the money and technology to extract it.
Who speaks for Iran? Rezaei’s threats fuels divide over war and diplomacy
Mohsen Rezaei’s threats to halt Iranian oil exports, target countries cooperating with the United States and comments suggesting a possible nuclear shift have triggered a debate in Tehran over his authority to outline such policies as tensions escalate.
Iran security chief hints at nuclear doctrine shift after US attacks
Iran’s top security official has suggested Tehran could reconsider its longstanding rejection of nuclear weapons, arguing that US attacks on Iran have strengthened the case for acquiring an atomic bomb as a deterrent.
Iran leader’s absence gives war camp room to shape policy
Mojtaba Khamenei has not been seen or heard publicly, leaving his condition and circumstances unclear as officials govern in his name, interpret messages attributed to him and invoke his authority on questions ranging from negotiations with Washington to the conduct of the war.
Iran Massacre
EXCLUSIVE
Tehran mosques used to surveil, shoot at January protesters
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.
Tehran gas stations run dry as Iran’s fuel deficit bites
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.
Iranians voice economic despair as dollar hits 2 million rials
Iranians described deepening financial hardship and questioned whether economic pressure can change government policy as the dollar hit a historic 2 million rials, extending the currency's sharp decline on Sunday.
Iran's central bank says it is not hyperinflation. Economists are not convinced
Iran's central bank governor says hyperinflation has not happened. A leading Tehran economist says it already has. Whatever it is called, the shelves tell the same story.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Nine out of ten shun marriage, parenthood in Iran International poll
Nine in 10 respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they did not want to marry or have children under Iran’s economic, social and political conditions, according to results gathered from about 100,000 participants.
PODCAST
He spent a decade helping vulnerable children. Iran handed him 31 years
A 46-year-old Baha’í who devoted more than a decade to helping some of Iran’s most vulnerable children has been handed prison sentences totaling 31 years after a trial in which his family says he was denied a lawyer.
Iran state TV airs threat against Trump’s son Barron
Iranian state television has broadcast a segment describing efforts to reach President Donald Trump’s son Barron and referring to a $10 million reward, an unusually explicit threat against a member of the US president’s immediate family.
Crackdown on Dissent
Iran executes another January protest detainee
Iran executed another detainee from the January protests after the Supreme Court upheld his death sentence, the judiciary announced on Sunday.
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