Iranwire -Publicly available figures show that the number of doctors who left Iran last year was nearly one-third higher than the number of doctors entering the medical workforce, according to Iran Open Data (IOD). Based on statistics from the country’s Medical Council Organization, an average of 4,982 new doctors entered the job market annually between 2012 and 2022, the collaborative …

alarabiya – Russia and Iran will speed up work on a “major new interstate agreement,” the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday. It did not detail the scope of the agreement, which comes amid growing political, trade and military ties between Moscow and Tehran that the United States views with concern. In a statement, Russia said the two countries’ foreign …

iranintl – Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis said on Tuesday they attacked the Norwegian commercial tanker STRINDA in their latest operation against commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The group targeted the tanker with a rocket after the crew refused to respond to all warnings, Houthi military spokesperson Yehia Sareea said in a televised statement. He vowed that the Houthis would continue blocking …

iranintl – A legal complaint filed on Monday asked Swiss authorities to arrest Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi if he travels to Geneva to attend a UN event. The complaint has been lodged by three former political prisoners who seem to have narrowly escaped the Islamic Republic’s “prison massacres” of 1988. Ebrahim Raisi was a member of the infamous Death Committee …

iranintl – Reports about a money-losing foreign currency trading scheme at the central bank of Iran has surfaced as the media is abuzz with another large corruption case. The Central Bank of Iran issued a statement Monday rejecting reports that the bank bought foreign currency at a higher rate and sold it to a cabal of insider businesspeople. The government’s …

RFL/RE – The Tehran University disciplinary committee has reportedly initiated proceedings against at least 30 students from its Faculty of Social Sciences, according to information released by the country’s Student Guild Councils via their Telegram channel. The move comes in the wake of a significant Student Day protest rally on December 7, where the students in question are alleged to …

Iranwire – Branch 36 of the Tehran Court of Appeals has sentenced six Baha’is, from Iran’s largest religious minority community, to a total of over 30 years in prison.  The court overturned a lower court’s ruling on the charge of “propaganda against the system” for Iraj Shakor, Saba Sefidi, and Pedram Abhar, finding them not guilty of that charge. But …

Iranwire – The European Union has imposed sanctions on six Iranian individuals and five entities it says are involved in Iran’s “development and production of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) used in Russia’s illegal war of aggression.”  “These are the first listings under the newly established framework for restrictive measures in view of Iran’s military support of Russia’s war of aggression …

VOA – An Austrian national went on trial Monday in London for allegedly spying for a group that may have been preparing to attack an Iranian TV station in the British capital. Magomed-Husejn Dovtaev, 31, who is originally from Chechnya, was detained by counterterrorism officers in west London on Feb. 11. He was charged with possession of records containing information …

VOA – A legal complaint called Monday for Swiss authorities to arrest Iran’s president during an expected visit and charge him with crimes against humanity connected to a 1988 purge of dissidents. The complaint asks Swiss federal public prosecutor Andreas Muller to ensure the arrest and prosecution of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi “over his participation in acts of genocide, torture, …