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                • Sunday, 24 September, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  ‘Robots can help issue a fatwa’: Iran’s clerics look to harness AI

                  Religious leaders in the holy city of Qom believe that artificial intelligence can strengthen the country’s Islamic character

                  A Muslim Shiite cleric walks past the house of the late founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in the holy city of Qom
                • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
                  Sanam Vakil
                  Western policy towards Iran lacks both goals and goalposts

                  The release of prisoners and anniversary of the killing of Mahsa Amini highlight a failure to solve the challenges from Tehran

                  A woman stands on a car roof as a huge throng of people fill the road ahead
                • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
                  US-Iran tensions
                  Iran nuclear crisis lingers for White House despite prisoner swap

                  More diplomacy possible in New York this week, but rivals must overcome decades of distrust

                  US nationals Siamak Namazi, Emad Sharqi, and Morad Tahbaz, who were among five prisoners released from Iran, disembark from a plane upon landing in Doha, Qatar
                • Monday, 18 September, 2023
                  US-Iran tensions
                  Iran releases prisoners in swap deal with US

                  Exchange agreed after months of negotiations has potential to de-escalate tensions between arch foes

                  Siamak Namazi and Morad Tahbaz, who were released during a prisoner swap deal between the US and Iran, arrive at Doha International Airport, Qatar
                • Monday, 18 September, 2023
                  Cristiano Ronaldo flies in to offer Iranians rare glimpse of football’s elite

                  Visit by the decorated player, whose Saudi team play in Tehran, provides country’s fans with a moment to celebrate

                  Cristiano Ronaldo and his Al-Nassr teammates arrive at the Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran
                • Thursday, 14 September, 2023
                  Iran nuclear deal
                  European powers to retain sanctions aimed at deterring Iran nuclear ambitions

                  France, Germany and UK say curbs due to expire next month will now be continued, prompting ire in Tehran

                  Iranian officials including Ayatollah Ali Khamenei inspect centrifuges in Tehran, Iran
                • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
                  US-Iran tensions
                  US moves ahead with Iran prisoner swap and release of $6bn of frozen oil revenues

                  Washington hopes deal will bring progress in nuclear talks and other areas of tension with Tehran

                  The Iranian and US flags printed on paper
                • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
                  Middle Eastern politics & society
                  UAE boosts trade with Iran after eased restrictions on business activity

                  Flourishing relationship reflects Gulf state’s pivot towards regional de-escalation

                  Shipping containers at Khalifa port
                • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
                  US-Iran tensions
                  Owner of ship seized carrying Iranian oil pleads guilty in US court

                  Case involving the Suez Rajan further threatens to raise tensions between Washington and Tehran

                  A satellite image of the oil tanker Suez Rajan
                • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
                  European Union
                  EU condemns Iran’s ‘illegal’ detention of European diplomat

                  Swedish citizen Johan Floderus was detained more than a year ago during private visit

                  European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell
                • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
                  Iran cracks down on dissent as protest movement anniversary looms

                  Activists say authorities want to discourage gatherings marking the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody

                • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
                  Emerging markets
                  Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

                  South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

                  South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
                • Monday, 21 August, 2023
                  Kim Ghattas
                  As autocrats deepen international ties, their opponents seek strength in solidarity

                  Freedom and human rights activists call for global co-operation but there is little to celebrate

                  A protester displays a picture of Mahsa Amini, whose death in custody sparked protests in Iran
                • Monday, 21 August, 2023
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                  Drought causes headaches for Panama Canal

                  Iran deals with the consequences of ultra-cheap petrol

                • Thursday, 17 August, 2023
                  Iran grapples with unintended consequences of ultra-cheap petrol

                  Authorities under pressure to remove expensive subsidies that keep fuel prices as low as $0.03 a litre

                  A customer refuels her car at a petrol station in Tehran, Iran
                • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
                  The FT ViewThe editorial board
                  The US and Iran look for de-escalation

                  Risk of deepening nuclear crisis remains, but any efforts to contain it are welcome

                  President Ebrahim Raisi of Iran at a military parade in Tehran.
                • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
                  Iran nuclear deal
                  US asks Iran to stop selling drones to Russia

                  Washington raises issue in indirect talks aiming to de-escalate nuclear crisis

                  In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian army, Iran-made drones are displayed in a ceremony
                • Friday, 11 August, 2023
                  FT live news
                  Live news updates from August 11: Global oil demand hits record, China’s bank lending plummets
                • Thursday, 10 August, 2023
                  US-Iran tensions
                  Iran transfers five imprisoned Americans to house arrest

                  Washington expected to release $6bn of Tehran’s frozen money in diplomatic breakthrough

                  A prison guard stands along a corridor in Tehran’s Evin prison
                • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
                  UK foreign policy
                  UK government split over listing Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists

                  Home secretary Suella Braverman in stand-off with foreign secretary James Cleverly over move

                  Suella Braverman is increasingly concerned that Iranian agents are plotting to kill British citizens,
                • Wednesday, 2 August, 2023
                  Iranian businesses under pressure to enforce hijab rules

                  Shops and offices face temporary shutdowns for allowing female staff and customers to eschew head coverings

                  A young woman walks in a Tehran bazaar without the compulsory head covering
                • Sunday, 16 July, 2023
                  Iran to resume hijab patrols after protests over death in custody

                  Islamic republic threatens renewed enforcement by morality police 10 months after Mahsa Amini lost her life

                  A Tehran street on Sunday
                • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
                  Najmeh Bozorgmehr
                  Iran’s relationship with alcohol is reaching a tipping point

                  An artist’s death has raised questions about the dangers of the black market for liquor

                  Iranians pour bottles of alcohol into a fountain in Washington, DC
                • Monday, 10 July, 2023
                  Christopher Sabatini
                  The international human rights framework desperately needs an upgrade

                  Countries in the global south are making dangerous alliances with illiberal autocracies

                  Children of the United Nations International Nursery School in Paris inspect a poster of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
                • Sunday, 9 July, 2023
                  News in-depth
                  Iranians turn to small acts of defiance to keep protest flame burning

                  Marking the birthdays of those who died is just one way that the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ movement is being kept alive

                  a demonstrator raises his arms and makes the victory sign during a protest for Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic’s ‘morality police’, in Tehran in September 2022
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