Maziyar Ghiabi
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- Sep 24, 2026
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- Sep 15, 2026
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Iranian press review: Iranian elite profit billions from oil sanctions (opens the original)
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International sanctions against Iran have created lucrative financial channels, generating substantial profits for people linked to the country's security institutions, local media has reported. Yashar Soltani, an Iranian investigative journalist, alleged that the Ministry of Petroleum has lost control of marketing and exporting the country's national oil industry, handing it to an exclusive network of four brokers who circumvent international sanctions. Soltani, who has previously been jailed f
'We will never bow our head': Iran's president strikes defiant tone in UN speech (opens the original)
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that Tehran will never “bow its head” to US threats but is open to diplomacy, a day after President Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic. Addressing Trump directly, Pezeshkian said the US leader “must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying. We will never bow our head[s] or bend at the knee”. I
How US sanctions are targeting Iranian education (opens the original)
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In the last week of August, I received several messages from Iran, all bewildered, about the English language proficiency exams having been cancelled. "Students like me are very surprised and shocked," one of them said, "because it is unaffordable to take the exam abroad." Since the 12-day war of June 2025, and then the US war that began in February 2026, students have travelled to Turkey or Armenia to sit the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or the International English Language Te
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