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Al-Arabia – Russia said a group of its warships had arrived in Iran to take part in drills with Iran and China in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea. The joint exercises, called “Maritime Security Belt – 2024,” will involve warships and aviation, the Russian defense ministry said in a statement quoted by state media on Monday. Iran’s …

iranintl – Iran has sentenced Jamshid Sharmahd, a dual national abductee sentenced to death, along with the US, to $2.5 billion in fines, signaling Tehran’s new attempt at hostage diplomacy. A court in Tehran ruled Monday that German-Iranian Sharmahd and the United States government should pay the amount as a compensation for the families of the victims of a terrorist …

iranintl – Bijan Zanganeh, Iran’s former oil minister, has made bold assertions regarding Iran’s potential to significantly increase its oil production, despite minimal investments and limited access to technology. Iran’s crude oil production stood at an estimated 3,163,000 barrels per day as of January 2024, showing a slight decrease from December 2023’s output of 3,168,000 barrels per day. This is notably lower …

Iranwire – A United Nations fact-finding mission has held the Islamic Republic responsible for the “physical violence” leading to Mahsa Amini’s death and said its forces committed crimes against humanity during the suppression of protests. The UN report outlines criminal acts starting September 16, 2022. These offenses have a long history parallel to the emergence of the Islamic Republic, but …

Iranwire – Helaleh Elyasi, 22, a victim of child marriage, took her own life on March 8 as a result of enduring relentless beatings and domestic violence inflicted by her husband. At 17, her family forced her to marry a man twelve years older. Since then, she has suffered many kinds of abuse at his hands, according to an Iran-based …