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The Iranian military cautioned vessels on Saturday to avoid the strait, saying that passage through it was 'currently unsafe.'
Gay men and lesbians can be punished by public flogging and the death penalty in Iran.
Iran might decide to go for a historic compromise.
Iran now operates a drone factory out of Tajikistan.
Iran may feel compelled to seek help from outside.
Iran’s drones are probably its most notable industrial export.
The United States apparently destroyed three Iranian nuclear facilities in strikes.
The United Kingdom, France, and Germany triggered the United Nations’ crippling 'snapback' sanctions.
Four months ago, Israel bombed Iran for 12 days.
In the last two years, Israel’s military and intelligence forces have fought and bested Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Syria and Iran.
Its multi-tiered air defenses have stopped the vast majority of incoming missiles and drones.
Hossein Noushabadi, the director general of parliamentary affairs in Iran’s foreign ministry, said on Tuesday that U.S. immigration authorities planned to deport 400 Iranians living in the United States back to Iran over the coming months.
Some who will be deported held U.S. residency, he said, adding that all of those being deported left Iran legally.
The United States deported more than two dozen Iranians back to the country in 2024, the highest number in years.
The deportation is a rare moment of cooperation between the United States and the Iranian government, and was the culmination of months of discussions between the two countries, the Iranian officials said.
For decades, the United States had given shelter to Iranians fleeing their homeland, which has one of the harshest human rights records in the world.
Iranian officials said that the plane, a U.S.-chartered flight, took off from Louisiana on Monday night and was scheduled to arrive in Iran by way of Qatar on Tuesday at the earliest.
The deportation is one of the starkest efforts yet by the Trump administration to deport migrants no matter the human rights conditions in countries on the receiving end.
The Trump administration is deporting a planeload of about 100 Iranians back to Iran from the United States after a deal between the two governments.
Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, called the sanctions 'unjust and illegal.'
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