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iranintl – A leader of Iran’s Reform Front, an umbrella organization of reformist parties and groups says only 7 percent of Iranians approve of the country’s current situation. Mohsen Armin, the front’s vice chairman has quoted the results of an opinion poll conducted by ISPA of the government-owned Iranian Students New Agency (ISNA) and said 48 percent of Iranians support reforms …

Al-Arabia – Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met with a senior Houthi official in Tehran on Monday, thanking the Yemeni group for its response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, state media reported. In the meeting with Houthi spokesman and chief negotiator Mohammed Abdulsalam, Iran’s top diplomat thanked the Tehran-backed Houthis for their “strong and authoritative position in support of the oppressed …

iranintl – Iran officially became a member of the China-led BRICS economic organization on Monday, as it seeks to overcome the impact of US sanctions and overcome it isolation. In its policy of finding shelter under Chinese and Russian-dominated international organizations, Iran achieved full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July 2022 and concurrently pursued entry into the BRICS group. Following …

iranintl – A former official in Iran’s Covid Taskforce says the country’s Covid deaths were nearly twice the figures authorities reported for the first two years of the pandemic. Speaking to the reformist Etemad newspaper, Ali-Akbar Haghdoust, head of the Covid Taskforce’s epidemiology committee, said estimates based on some studies, including a study by Ardabil Medical Sciences University published in …

iranintl – The suicide of six workers at a petrochemical plant in Iran in less than two years is viewed by a prominent economist as an extreme form of protest. Hossein Raghfar, an economist at Tehran’s Al- Zahra University, known for his research on poverty in Iran, expressed this perspective in an interview with the Didban-e Iran news website after …