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iranintl – A US State Department nominee is being blocked by a GOP member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who demanded transparency on the suspension of former envoy to Iran, Robert Malley. “I’ve been asking for 8 months for information regarding the suspension of Special Envoy Robert Malley’s security clearance,” Senator Jim Risch (R-ID), ranking member of the Foreign …

iranintl – An Iranian lawmaker says women are outraged over lawmakers’ proposal to directly deduct cash fines from their bank accounts for disregarding hijab rules. Reformist lawmaker Mohammad-Sadegh Javadihesar strongly criticizes members of parliament for introducing the plan to deduct hijab fines only after the elections, labeling their behavior as “most heinous and despicable.” He asserts that such decisions have …

iranintl -This week, US President Joe Biden is confronted with a critical decision regarding a $10 billion sanctions waiver for Iran – and whether to renew it, or not. With the ongoing war in Gaza and continued attacks by the Iran-backed Houthis in the Red Sea, the deadline could not come at a worse moment for the administration. Last year, …

Iranwire – A video of a young woman protesting a cleric in a clinic in central Qom has recently sparked widespread debate on social media around newer tactics to enforce Iran’s mandatory Hijab law. In the video, the woman, seated in the corner of the Quran and Etrat Clinic in Qom, holds a child in her arms with her shawl draped around …

Iranwire – A member of Iran’s Supreme Council of the Medical System has warned that nurse migration is no longer a manageable problem but a full-blown crisis in the country. In an interview with Radio Salamat on March 11, Abolqasem Talebi highlighted that Iran falls far behind the global standard of three nurses per hospital bed. It has less than a third …