Friday , 29 March 2024

Social and Political

30,000 Iranian Disabled Children Are Left Out of School, Official Says

Iranwire – An Iranian deputy education minister has said that approximately 30,000 children with disabilities are unable to attend primary schools in the country. Speaking on January 26, Masoumeh Najafi Pazuki also said that 140,000 pupils dropped out of school last year, while media reports have put the figure at over 200,000. Pazuki attributed the discrepancy to “deficiencies in the …

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Report: Beijing Wants Tehran to Tell Houthis to “Show Restraint”

Iranwire – China has asked the Islamic Republic of Iran to help rein in attacks on ships in the Red Sea by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels, the Reuters news agency reported on January 26. Four unidentified Iranian sources and a diplomat were quoted as saying that the matter was raised at recent meetings between Chinese and Iranian officials in both …

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US Warned Iran of ISIS-K Threat Ahead of Deadly Blasts, US Official Says

VOA – The U.S. government privately warned Iran that the Islamic State group’s affiliate in Afghanistan was preparing to carry out a terrorist attack before bombings in Kerman earlier this month that killed 95 people, a U.S. official said Thursday. The official, who was not authorized to comment and insisted on anonymity to discuss the intelligence, said the U.S. was …

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Iranian Dissidents Go on Hunger Strike to Protest Hangings

VOA – Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile went on a hunger strike Thursday to protest a surge of hangings in Iran, which included most recently a participant in the 2022 protest movement who activists say had mental health difficulties. Led by jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, those going on the one-day hunger …

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Iran drones become latest proxy tool in Sudan’s civil war

Al-Arabia – Iran has supplied Sudan’s army with combat drones, taking sides in a disastrous civil war fueled by proxies keen for Red Sea access that has displaced millions and risks destabilizing the wider region, according to senior Western officials. Iran’s intervention in the nine-month conflict on the side of the military, which has lost swathes of territory to a …

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Pentagon Denies Reports Of US Withdrawal From Syria

iranintl – The Pentagon has denied media reports that the Biden administration may be considering a full withdrawal of American troops from Syria in 2024. A report in Foreign Policy Wednesday suggested that “the White House is no longer invested in sustaining a mission that it perceives as unnecessary,” quoting “four sources within the Defense and State departments”. But a Pentagon …

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Ex-Member of Tehran “Death Committee” Barred From Election Race

Iranwire – Iran’s former Justice Minister Mostafa Pourmohammadi has been disqualified from running in the upcoming election for the Assembly of Experts, a chamber of theologians that appoints the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader and oversees his work. The Borna news agency reported the news on January 25, a day after former President Hassan Rouhani was barred from standing again in the March …

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US Issues $15 Million Bounty on Iran Drone Middleman

Iranwire – The United States is offering up to $15 million for information regarding Hossein Hatefi Ardakani, an Iranian businessman alleged to have helped acquire technology for the Islamic Republic of Iran’s weapons programs. “Since 2014, Ardakani has used his network of intermediary companies, including Malaysia- and Hong Kong-based front companies and UAE logistics businesses, to procure and to facilitate …

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Erdogan: Turkey, Iran Agree on Need to Avoid Escalating Mideast Tensions

VOA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he and Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi agreed at a meeting on Wednesday on the need to avoid steps that could further threaten Middle East stability three months into the Gaza war. Turkey, which supports a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has harshly criticized Israel for its attacks on Gaza, called …

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Iran Says It Is Willing to Help Niger Overcome Sanctions

VOA – Iran said Wednesday it is willing to help coup-hit Niger overcome international sanctions as Tehran seeks to reduce its isolation by bolstering ties with African countries. Iran’s first vice-president, Mohammad Mokhber, said his country condemns “the cruel sanctions that are imposed by the domination system,” in a meeting with Niger’s Prime Minister Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine. “We will …

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