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iranintl- A former Iranian minister has made unprecedented comments about the disastrous economic and cultural situation in the country that has prompted Iranians to believe that change is inevitable. Reza Amiri Salehi’s comments in the centrist Entekhab website appeared shortly after an election on March 1 with the lowest turnout in the 45-year history of the Islamic Republic. The website quoted …

iranintl – President Joe Biden avoided the subject of Iran almost entirely in his State of the Union address on Thursday, focusing on issues that may be more advantageous for him in an election year. In what largely sounded like an early campaign speech, Joe Biden mentioned the word Iran only once –and the word nuclear not even once, as …

iranintl – Princeton University controversial academic, Hossein Mousavian, who is currently being investigated by the US Congress for his pro-Iran regime activities, now faces a grassroots Iranian-American campaign to secure his dismissal. The campaign Alliance Against Islamic Regime of Iran Apologists (AAIRIA) wrote in its Wednesday statement that “In the seven years Mousavian served as IRI’s ambassador in Germany, more than 23 …

iranintl – After seven years of stalled negotiations, Masoud Dorosti, the managing director of the Tehran Metro, confirmed the municipality’s decision to buy 791 metro trains from China. Dorosti admitted that due to economic challenges and sanctions, there has been a backlog in the subway in the last few years, saying the city has “a fleet that is largely worn out …

Iranwire – The Islamic Republic is responsible for the “physical violence” leading to Mahsa Amini’s death in September 2022 and committed crimes against humanity during the suppression of protests, a United Nations fact-finding mission has said in a report. The UN panel “has established the existence of evidence of trauma to Ms Amini’s body, inflicted while in the custody of the morality …