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worldview –Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iran’s banking sector has languished as Tehran has politicized its central bank and monetary policy far more than almost any other country in the world. U.S. sanctions are putting tremendous pressure on Iran’s extremely fragile financial system by sending Iran into a period of stagnant economic growth accompanied by high inflation. President Hassan Rouhani …

Radiofarda – Two “flying objects” damaged a Japanese tanker in a suspected attack on Thursday in the Gulf of Oman, but there was no damage to the cargo of methanol, the president of the shipping company said on Friday. The Kokuka Courageous was sailing toward the port of Khor Fakkan in the United Arab Emirates after the crew, which had …

Radiofarda – Twitter says it has deleted nearly 4,800 suspect accounts linked to Iran that the company says secretly pushed that government’s agenda. Twitter is adding those accounts and their tweets to a public database it launched last year to track its battle against government-linked misinformation. It is also adding a smaller number of deleted accounts linked to Russia, Venezuela …

Al-Arabia – The US military on Friday released a video it said showed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard removing an unexploded limpet mine from one of the oil tankers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting the Islamic Republic sought to remove evidence of its involvement from the scene. The US Navy rushed to assist the stricken vessels in the Gulf of Oman off …

VOA – The U.S. Navy has released video it says shows an Iranian patrol boat removing an unexploded limpet mine from the hull of one of the two oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman Thursday. One of the tankers is Norwegian-owned, and the other is owned by a Japanese company. The mine was attached to the Japanese tanker, …