Iran’s Revolutionary Guards confirmed on Saturday that they had seized an oil tanker in the Gulf as it sailed away from a UAE port, a day after security companies determined they were likely responsible.
Decades of mismanagement compounded by prolonged drought have pushed Iran to the brink of what experts call water bankruptcy. With reservoirs running on empty and rainfall at a record low, the authorities have begun rationing water…
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The authorities' strategy is calculated: relax visible restrictions to soothe public opinion amid Iran's growing economic isolation, while quietly intensifying a crackdown on political dissent.
A report by the official Irna news agency carried a statement by the Revolutionary Guard that said the tanker was taken to Iranian waters but it did not elaborate on the “illegal consignment”
In a country where lone women are banned by law from raising their voice in song in front of men, Iran's first woman philharmonic conductor Paniz Faryoussefi is a powerful symbol for young women dreaming of a life devoted to music.