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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard recruits volunteers to fight in Gaza

The Iranian regime has launched an online campaign to recruit volunteers – including children – to fight alongside Hamas in the war against Israel. But the government’s propaganda efforts are not making much headway among anti-regime Iranians.

France 24

Strikes by Islamists on US bases in Syria and Iraq raise fears of escalation

Militants linked to Iran have injured dozens of US soldiers and killed one, indicating Tehran has a network of regional proxies

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy says he will keep up military pressure on Russian-occupied Crimea – as it happened

Ukrainian president says military pressure will continue, during video address in Prague that was marred by possible hack attack, says Czech parliament

The Guardian - AU

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The Israel-Hamas war deepens the struggle between US and Iran for influence in the Middle East

As Israel readies for a ground invasion of Gaza, and Palestinian and Israeli civilian deaths continue to mount, a broader struggle for influence continues in the Middle East between the United States and Iran.

The Conversation

Iranian teen now ‘brain dead’ after alleged altercation with morality police on Tehran metro

Rights groups have accused officers of assaulting Armita Geravand for not wearing a hijab, an allegation denied by authorities

The Independent UK

Armita Geravand: Iran teenager 'brain dead' after Tehran metro 'attack by morality police'

An Iranian teenage girl who fell into a coma this month after an alleged beating by morality police on a subway for not wearing a hijab is “brain dead”, according to Iranian state media.

Evening Standard

Iranian official in UK warns of danger of Israel-Hamas escalation

Chargé d’affaires at embassy says situation is very volatile and Iran has no control over ‘resistance forces’

The Guardian - UK

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Tunnels, traps and Tehran: Why Israel hasn’t attacked Gaza yet and what will happen when it does

The Independent explains what this incursion could look like and the myriad hurdles that Israel must overcome

The Independent UK

How significant is lifting of UN curbs on Iran’s missile programme?

Iran says it will keep developing its missiles to defend itself as the US and E3 keep their sanctions in place.

Al Jazeera

French-Iranian academic held in Iran since 2019 back in France: supporters

French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah has returned to France, her university said Wednesday, after having been held for nearly five years in Iran in a case that added to tensions between Paris and Tehran.

Radio France Internationale

The peril now facing us: Israel invades, Iran intervenes – and this war goes global

Calls for restraint are right but unlikely to be heeded. A conflict setting Israel and the US against Iran has rarely seemed closer, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK

Top Iranian filmmaker Dariush Mehrjui stabbed to death alongside wife at home

The director was considered an architect of the Iranian new wave cinema movement of the seventies

The Independent UK

Qatar, Iran, Turkey and beyond: The galaxy of Hamas supporters

Hamas has maintained ties with several regional powers and organisations in the Middle East since its creation in 1987. Whether it comes to financing, military aid or ideological support, the Palestinian Islamist movement can count on several allies in its deadly fight with Israel.

France 24

US reportedly persuaded Qatar to halt $6bn to Iran in breach of deal

Report comes amid pressure for Biden to deny Iran revenues amid speculation over how big a role Tehran played in Hamas attack

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The Independent UK

US and Qatar agree to freeze access to $6bn in humanitarian aid to Iran after Israel attack

The money was only made available to Tehran several weeks ago as part of prisoner swap deal with the US

Al Jazeera

Iran’s Raisi, Saudi Arabia’s MBS discuss Israel-Hamas war

Two leaders have first phone call since Tehran and Riyadh restored ties under a China-brokered deal in March.

Newsroom.co.nz

Tyranny not ‘terror’ afflicts the Middle East

From Riyadh to Cairo, Tehran to Jerusalem, Palestinians are merely useful pawns in the Middle East regional game of tyrants, writes Leon Goldsmith

The Times of India

What does Israel-Hamas war mean for oil prices

The shock attack by Hamas and Israel’s response risk a wider destabilization of the region — and the global oil market is watching.

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The Guardian - UK

No evidence yet of Iran link to Hamas attack, says Israeli military

Iran has issued denials and US has said it has no direct knowledge of Iran being behind attack

Evening Standard

Flights suspended at Hamburg Airport ‘due to threat of attack on plane’

Flights were suspended at Germany’s Hamburg Airport on Monday over fears a plane with 198 passengers from the Iranian capital Tehran would be attacked.

The Conversation

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi, in prison for speaking up against human rights violations, has been a voice for women for almost two decades

“Woman, Life, Freedom,” the slogan adopted by Iranians to protest the unjust death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, is, according to the Norwegian Nobel Committee, the most suitable way to describe the work of the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Narges Mohammadi.

The Conversation

Nobel peace prize: Narges Mohammadi wins on behalf of thousands of Iranian women struggling for human rights

Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize for her long fight against the oppression of women in Iran. Mohammadi is serving multiple prison sentences in Evin prison in Tehran on charges which include spreading propaganda against the state. She was named by the…

The Guardian - UK

Narges Mohammadi: a defiant voice for women’s rights in Iran

The articulate campaigner and now Nobel peace prize winner refuses to be silenced even in prison

France 24

Injury of 16-year-old Iranian girl not wearing headscarf in Tehran sparks anger

A mysterious injury suffered by a 16-year-old girl who boarded a Metro train in Iran’s capital without a headscarf has reignited anger just after the one-year anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini and the nationwide protests it sparked.

The Guardian - UK

Iran urged to release full CCTV of what led to teenage girl’s coma

Armita Geravand, 16, remains in hospital after alleged encounter with hijab enforcer on Tehran metro

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