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Iranwire – Iran’s ministries of education and science have warned that they will no longer provide educational services to students who do not abide to the Islamic Republic’s dress codes. As classes re-opened after the Persian New Year, the Ministry of Education said on April 3 that women and girls who fail to comply with the compulsory hijab will not …

Iranwire – Azerbaijan has arrested four people in connection with last week’s attempted killing of a member of parliament with strong anti-Iranian views, an Interior Ministry spokesman said on April 3. The spokesman declined to give details of the suspects who an Azerbaijani news site claimed were working on the order of Iranian security forces. Fazil Mustafa, a lawmaker known …

Iranwire – Ebrahim Vahedian Burjeni was born in Isfahan in 1935 to a Baha’i family and completed his primary education in the same city. After finishing the eighth grade, and receiving his middle school certificate, his uncle told him: “If you want God to be happy with you, become a teacher.” Following his advice, Ebrahim continued his education by going …

gatestoneinstitute.org – US President Joe Biden appears more worried about the Israeli government’s plan for judicial reform than the growing support among Palestinians for terrorism against Israel. He seems more concerned about a plan to fix the deeply broken judicial system in Israel than about Palestinian threats to destroy Israel and kill as many Jews as possible. We did not …

Al-Monitor – Syrian state media reported suspected Israeli strikes early Tuesday morning local time in the capital Damascus, as tensions between Iran and Israel continue to play out in the country.  Syria’s official news outlet SANA reported that the “Israeli enemy” fired missiles from the Golan Heights at unspecified targets near Damascus at 12:15 a.m. local time (5:15 p.m. ET on Monday). …