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iranintl – In response to an unprecedented surge in currency and gold markets in Iran, security agencies clamped down on exchange bureaus, ordering them not post currency rates on Saturday. Major exchange dealers have even shut down their price announcement boards, according to reports received by Iran International. Following the parliamentary elections in Iran, the currency and gold markets witnessed …

VOA – Iran’s hard-liners were leading in an initial vote count Saturday in the capital, Tehran, following a record-low turnout in a parliamentary election. Officials have not yet released turnout figures, but the state-run IRNA news agency said it was 41%, based on unofficial reports. After the closure of the polls, videos and reports suggest that many people used their …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Whatever the turnout, it is clear that not a single critic of the current domestic and foreign policies will be elected. The two assemblies are likely to return as more ardently committed than before to follow the “Supreme Guide” wherever he is heading. It is in that sense that the twin elections have some interest. They will show …

gatestoneinstitute.org – Both US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron reveal their simplistic, and somewhat imperialist, Western approach to a complex Middle Eastern situation, irrespective of the aims and intentions of the two parties chiefly involved: the radical Islamists of Gaza and the West Bank, and the State of Israel itself. “They [Hamas] told us …

iranintl – While Houthi attacks on shipping have halved grain transit through the Suez Canal, grain ships bound for Iran navigate the Red Sea untroubled, commodities experts say. Apart from those headed to Iran, grain ships originating from the Black Sea are about the only ones still using the route. Iran-backed Houthis have effectively closed the Red Sea with their …