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VOA – Iran’s statistics agency reported last month that inflation in December hit 48.5% compared to the same time a year earlier. With that figure, the Statistical Center of Iran put inflation for the first nine months of the year at 45% overall. According to World Bank data, the last time Iran had an inflation rate that high was in …

Al-Monitor – In an auditorium-style conference room at US Central Command (CENTCOM) headquarters, the top general overseeing all American military forces in the Middle East was beaming. Flanked by executives from Microsoft, Google and Blue Origin, US Army Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla had just been presented with the best idea he had heard in long time — by a buck sergeant …

Al-Monitor – The Iranian judiciary said Tuesday that 94 US citizens were among over 150 people allegedly involved in the killing of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general who was hit in a January 2020 US airstrike in Baghdad.   At a televised weekly presser, the spokesperson for Iran’s judiciary, Masoud Setayeshi, said legal proceedings have officially been launched and “summoning” letters have been …

Al-Arabia – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged to step up his efforts to derail a return to the Iran nuclear deal by airing his opposition openly and in public, in an apparent shift from a more circumspect approach taken by the previous government. “We will act powerfully and openly on the international level against the return to the nuclear …

Al-Arabia – Russia is planning to launch a long-term campaign of attacks against Ukraine using Iranian-made drones in an effort to demoralize and “exhaust” the war-weary country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, citing intelligence reports. During his nightly address on Monday in Kyiv, the Ukrainian president said he received intelligence indicating that the attacks would be carried out using Iranian-made …