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iranintl – Once again, the hardline chancellor of Tehran University has denied allegations of purging academics based on their political beliefs, instead accusing those dismissed of “moral issues.” In an interview with the semi-official Mehr News Agency on Tuesday, Mohammad Moghimi asserted that not a single academic has been dismissed from Iran’s top state university on political grounds. “The ethical …

iranintl – Republican lawmakers are outraged by President Joe Biden’s decision to renew a US sanctions waiver that benefits Iran, despite the regime’s continued attacks on US interests. The waiver, signed and transmitted to the US Congress late Wednesday, allows Iraq to purchase electricity from Iran for billions of dollars and pay for it by transferring hard currencies to accounts in third …

Iranwire – In an exclusive audio file obtained by IranWire, Mohammad Javad Zarif, the former foreign minister of the Islamic Republic, reveals what he thinks of the hardliners who have “taken over” Iran in the past few years.  Zarif says two former top officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) orchestrated the March 1 elections, and the two main …

Iranwire – Iran’s economy has significantly fallen behind its regional competitors over the past half-century, according to a new report by the data analysis group Iran Open Data. The report highlights a stark contrast between Iran’s economic standing in the 1970s and its current position. Just seven years before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran boasted an economy twice the size …

Iranwire – Iranian authorities have arrested five Azeri activists amid a growing crackdown on ethnic minority rights.  Siamak Seifi, Milad Zeinolabedini, Samad Heydari, Amin Taghizadeh, and Amir Taghizadeh were arrested by security forces in northwestern Tabriz on March 13, according to the HRANA human rights activist news agency. They were detained upon leaving a football stadium, and the charges against …