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iranintl – The past year was a tough one for all Iranians: 44% official inflation rate, tens of millions living in poverty, quadrupling of executions in just four years, and alarming levels of unemployment. Adding to the nation’s woes in the Iranian year that ended on March 20, the emigration of nurses and specialist doctors, leaving critical positions unfilled, coupled …

iranintl – Iran’s former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has confirmed that Tehran informed the US before launching missiles at an Iraqi base housing American forces in January 2020. The ballistic missile attack came as retaliation days after the United States killed IRGC’s Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad. Zarif also claims that he and …

iranintl – Iranian social media users expressed their fury following the US State Department’s Farsi-language Instagram page’s decision to feature a photo of Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani as part of its Women’s History Month tributes. Hashemi Rafsanjani is a former Iranian MP turned activist – who was most recently arrested amid the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022, after she expressed …

VOA – The U.S. military said Friday it had struck three underground storage facilities used by Yemen’s Houthis, as the Iran-backed rebels continue to launch attacks on shipping in the Red Sea. U.S. forces “conducted self-defense strikes against three Houthi underground storage facilities in Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist-controlled areas of Yemen,” Central Command (CENTCOM) said in a statement. It said U.S. …

VOA – The United Nations said in its yearly report on water access that the world is “facing a water crisis” and listed Iran as one of the countries experiencing “extremely high water stress.” The U.N. World Water Development Report issued this week ahead of World Water Day, observed Friday, said that in the two decades ending in 2021, droughts …