ICYMI: A video showing agents of Iran's hijab patrol forcibly arresting a young woman for failing to comply with the mandatory hijab has surfaced showing her being forcibly thrown into a van as brutal crackdowns continue.
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#BREAKING 327 members of the Canadian Parliament on Wednesday unanimously voted to list Iran’s IRGC as a terrorist organization and shut down their operations in Canada.

“Protests at American university campuses may have had other goals, but their narrative instead served as clear evidence of how Islamists and Marxists can collaborate against Western values and US interests,” Iranian-US sociologist Majid Mohammadi argues.
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Iran's government is under fire from the nation's pharmacists following a directive that ties a pharmacy's adherence to the mandated hijab law to its allocation of medicine.
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Dozens of Baha'i women in Iran have been summoned to court facing baseless criminal charges amid an escalation in the persecution of the Baha'i community.
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ICYMI: The French government has accused Iran of adopting a policy of 'state hostage-taking' and 'blackmail,' intensifying calls for the release of a French couple detained for the past two years.
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Three insurance companies have rejected Chevron's (CVX.N), opens new tab claim over the seizure last year of an oil cargo by Iran, according to a complaint filed on Tuesday in a US court in California.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, have reiterated their commitment to a political resolution of the ongoing Iranian nuclear issue as Tehran continues to exceed enrichment limits.
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A top Iranian official said on Wednesday that Tehran has no blocked funds in Iraq, after the Biden administration issued sanction waivers in 2023 and this year to allow Baghdad to release the Iranian funds.
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Human rights ambassadors from eleven European countries, including the UK, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, and Sweden, have jointly condemned the death sentence imposed on jailed Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi.
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US Secretary of Defense Austin says he met with Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Tuesday “to reiterate US support for Jordan’s security and appreciation for Jordan’s humanitarian efforts in Gaza.”
“The US stands with Jordan amid threats from Iran and its regional proxies,” he noted.

ICYMI: US lawmakers have expressed concern about the possibility that the “cyber actor” who reportedly hacked former US Iran envoy Robert Malley could have been related to Iran’s intelligence or Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

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'We do not have blocked assets in Iraq,' stated Mohammad Dehghan, a deputy of Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi, on Wednesday. His remarks come following waivers by the Biden administration allowing Baghdad to release Iranian funds.
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Iranian media and soccer fans suspect authorities are staging violence against female football fans to justify banning them from stadiums. A recent incident at Tehran’s Azadi Stadium during a match between Sepahan FC and Persepolis FC has intensified this debate.…

Footage acquired by ايران اينترنشنال shows male and female agents of Iran's hijab patrol arresting a young woman in Tehran on Tuesday, 7 May, and violently throwing her into a van for non-compliance with mandatory hijab.
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“The most pressing question for the leaders of Egypt, Israel, Qatar and Saudi Arabia is how a new Trump administration would deal with an ever-unruly Iranian regime and its proxies,”Shahram Kholdi wrote in his latest piece for Iran International English.
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