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Vance hits rough patch as Iran talks falter, Orbán goes down in Hungary

President Donald Trump might have declared Vice President JD Vance did a “good job” in weekend talks that did not produce a peace pact with Iran, but there are scant signs his recent high-profile international setbacks improved his political prospects to be the next commander-in-chief. The lack of a deal…

Roll Call

Iran remains a stubborn foe after absorbing massive US-Israeli attacks

Since the United States and Israel launched their war against Iran on Feb. 28, the Trump administration claims to have all but “obliterated” the Islamic Republic’s military capabilities

The Independent UK

All Iranian officials and commanders killed in the past nine months

From Basij commanders to the Supreme Leader, some of the Islamic Republic’s most important figures were killed in two waves of attacks by Israel and the United States against Iran in the past nine months.

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Iranian opposition’s Lion and Sun flag hoisted at Iranian Embassy in Copenhagen

According to reports published by outlets including Iran International and the Jerusalem Post, two Islamic Republic diplomats have recently stepped down from their posts and applied for asylum.

Euronews

Shahrnush Parsipur: ‘The women of Iran will cause the fall of the Islamic Republic’

As her banned 1989 novella, Women Without Men, is published for the first time in the UK, the Iranian author looks back on a life of resistance and repression

The Guardian - UK

Iranians tell the world: The war must continue until the Ayatollah’s regime collapses

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Amirhossein Miresmaeili hears from people in Tehran enduring internet blackouts and military strikes from fighter jets, as they say their greatest fear is the regime surviving the conflict

The Independent UK

What is Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and does it operate in the UK?

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is a branch of Iran’s military created to protect the ruling Islamic Republic

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The Latest: Israeli strikes pound Iran and Lebanon as US warns attacks will intensify

Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships

The Independent UK

Intense Israeli strikes target Iran and Lebanon as US warns bombardment to 'surge dramatically'

Intense Israeli airstrikes are pounding the capitals of Iran and Lebanon as the U.S. apparently struck an Iranian drone carrier at sea, intensifying its campaign targeting the Islamic Republic’s fleet of warships

The Independent UK

Who – or what – will replace Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei

Leadership transitions in dictatorships can signal upheaval – for better or worse – and in Iran that moment has now arrived. The death of the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in a US airstrike on Tehran on February 28 marks the most consequential rupture in the Islamic Republic’s political system since…

The Conversation

Iranians grieve defiantly for thousands killed in last month's crackdown

Iranians are still reeling with shock, grief and fear after Iran's rulers unleashed the deadliest crackdown ever seen in the Islamic Republic last month

The Independent UK

Mass executions in Iran being planned after Trump talks end, lawyers claim

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: The Islamic Republic has now entered a new phase of systematic repression, reports Amirhossein Miresmaeili, as lawyers warn of an unprecedented scale of repression despite ongoing meetings with the US

The Independent UK

Aussie ex-detainee's dire warning for 'vulnerable' Iran

Tehran's decades-old dictatorship could be about to topple, says an Australian expert who was jailed for 804 days by the Iranian regime.

AAP

Why I think the Islamic Republic cannot survive this uprising

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: Comment: The public now demands regime change, financial resources are gone and support outside the country has collapsed, writes Mojtaba Dehghani

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The Conversation

Today Venezuela, tomorrow Iran: can the Islamic Republic survive a second Trump presidency?

Perhaps no one outside of Venezuela or Cuba should care more about the U.S. capture of nominal President Nicolás Maduro than the Islamic Republic of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei.

The Independent UK

Voices: The Islamic Republic’s authority is a casualty of its war with Israel

INDEPENDENT PERSIAN: The image of the Islamic Republic’s crumbling edifice is visible not just to Iranians but to the world. This could be the point of no return, writes Azadeh Eftekhari

The Conversation

A militarily degraded Iran may turn to asymmetrical warfare – raising risk of proxy and cyber attacks

Israel’s air assault on Iran has focused largely on degrading the Islamic Republic’s military and would-be nuclear capabilities.

Euronews

Fifth round of US-Iran nuclear deal talks to take place on Friday in Rome, Oman says

The talks seek to limit Iran's nuclear programme in exchange for the lifting of some of the crushing economic sanctions the US has imposed on the Islamic Republic.

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The Independent UK

Iran's president visits those injured in port explosion that killed at least 28 people

Iran’s president has visited those injured in a huge explosion that rocked one of the Islamic Republic’s main ports

The Independent UK

Iran and the US prepare for expert talks in Oman over Tehran's rapidly advancing nuclear program

Iran and the United States are preparing to start in-depth negotiations in Oman over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program, talks that likely will hinge on the Islamic Republic’s enrichment of uranium

France 24

Iran cyber police target 'un-Islamic' stores on Instagram

Authorities in Iran are cracking down on small businesses that sell “un-Islamic” clothing and other products on social media, notably Instagram. Owners of Instagram businesses say they have been contacted by the Islamic Republic’s cyber police, who take control of their pages, replacing images of their products with messages saying…

The Independent UK

Iran supreme leader says he'd 'welcome' full diplomatic ties with Egypt; presidency websites hacked

Iran’s supreme leader says he’d “welcome” the restoration of full diplomatic ties between Egypt and the Islamic Republic

Reuters

Oman's Sultan in Iran for talks on diplomatic, security issues

Oman’s Sultan Haitham bin Tariq al-Said arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a two-day visit expected to focus on regional diplomatic and security issues, Iranian state media said, two days after Muscat mediated a prisoner swap between Iran and Belgium.

Tribune News Service

Iran, US to exchange prisoners ‘soon,’ foreign minister says

Iran and the U.S. will soon carry out a prisoner exchange, the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister said, in a deal that will likely involve dual U.S.-Iranian nationals detained in Tehran.

The Conversation

Iran: unions and civil rights groups demand democracy and social justice

Forty-four years after Iranians rose up against their hated monarch in February 1979, a group of 20 organisations engaged in long-term social and economic struggles – including labour unions, teachers, women’s groups and youth and student movements – issued an ultimatum to the government of the Islamic Republic.

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