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iranintl – In a show of force amid heightened regional tensions, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards unleashed a barrage of ballistic missiles against “enemies” in Iraq and Syria. Iranian missiles hit several locations in Syria’s northwest and Iraqi Kurdistan Monday night, in what IRGC claimed to be retaliatory attacks against ISIS and Israeli spies. The attack on targets in Idlib, Syria, Tehran …

iranintl – Dissident singer-songwriter Shervin Hajipour’s new song Ashghal (Trash) has broken the record on Instagram in the past year with 35 million plays in the first 24 hours. In 2022 Hajipour’s song “Baray-e Azadi” (For Freedom), which he composed by taking lines from protesters’ social media posts, turned into an anthem and unofficial manifesto of Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protests …

Iranwirw – Iraq has recalled its ambassador from Tehran and summoned Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Baghdad in protest over deadly Iranian missile strikes on its semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The overnight attack was “a blatant violation of the sovereignty of the Republic of Iraq, strongly contradicts the principles of good neighborliness and international law, and threatens the security of the region,” the …

Iranwire – The US military says it seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen’s Houthi rebels in a raid last week. Navy SEALs conducted the January 9 raid in the Arabian Sea, with the commandos launching from the guided missile frigate USS Lewis B. Puller backed by drones and helicopters, the US military’s Central …

Iranwire – Iran’s Ministry of Health has attributed a staggering 13.9 percent of all natural deaths in the country to air pollution.  “Tehran ranks 19th among the world’s worst capitals in terms of concentration of suspended particles,” Abbas Shahsavani, who heads the ministry’s air health and climate change group, told Tasnim news agency on January 16. According to him, the …