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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"> <channel> <title>Iran | The Guardian</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran</link> <description>Latest news and features from theguardian.com, the world's leading liberal voice</description> <language>en-gb</language> <copyright>Guardian News &amp; Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</copyright> <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 13:50:37 GMT</pubDate> <dc:date>2024-05-19T13:50:37Z</dc:date> <dc:language>en-gb</dc:language> <dc:rights>Guardian News &amp; Media Limited or its affiliated companies. All rights reserved. 2024</dc:rights> <image> <title>The Guardian</title> <url>https://assets.guim.co.uk/images/guardian-logo-rss.c45beb1bafa34b347ac333af2e6fe23f.png</url> <link>https://www.theguardian.com</link> </image> <item> <title>‘Exhausting and extremely dangerous’: Mohammad Rasoulof on his escape from Iran</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/exhausting-and-extremely-dangerous-mohammad-rasoulof-on-his-hazardous-escape-from-eight-year-sentence</link> <description><p><strong>Exclusive:</strong> The director of The Seed of the Sacred Fig details how he discarded electronic devices and fled over the mountains on foot after authorities sentenced him to eight years in prison and flogging</p><p></p><p>Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof escaped imminent imprisonment in Iran by discarding all trackable electronic devices and walking across a mountainous borderland on foot, the film-maker has told the Guardian in an exclusive interview.</p><p>But even though he has found shelter in Germany and is optimistic about attending next week’s Cannes premiere of the film that nearly saw him <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof">jailed for eight years</a>, Rasoulof said he still expects to return to his home country “quite soon” and sit out his sentence.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/exhausting-and-extremely-dangerous-mohammad-rasoulof-on-his-hazardous-escape-from-eight-year-sentence">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannes-2024">Cannes 2024</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/world-cinema">World cinema</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannesfilmfestival">Cannes film festival</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/festivals">Festivals</category> <pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2024 09:44:51 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/exhausting-and-extremely-dangerous-mohammad-rasoulof-on-his-hazardous-escape-from-eight-year-sentence</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79784081f7efbf5e9251cd7e3d33724365769a9a/0_115_3444_2066/master/3444.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5663a43c8ed06cb366ecc04f6a0f2a93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79784081f7efbf5e9251cd7e3d33724365769a9a/0_115_3444_2066/master/3444.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=22e178b6433e8579c7e955d97d823e41"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Philip Oltermann in Cannes</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-17T09:44:51Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Talk in Iran about change in nuclear weapons policy must stop, UN expert says</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/talk-in-iran-about-change-in-nuclear-weapons-policy-must-stop-un-expert-says</link> <description><p>International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi expresses concern over Tehran’s threats of shift to deterrence</p><p>Loose talk within Iran about abandoning the country’s prohibition on possessing nuclear weapons is very worrying and needs to stop, Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear inspectorate, has said.</p><p>He was speaking to the Guardian after talks in London with David Cameron, the British foreign secretary, about the future of Iran’s nuclear programme and Grossi’s delicate efforts to persuade Iran to re-establish an effective inspection programme capable of guaranteeing that the country is not seeking a nuclear weapon.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/talk-in-iran-about-change-in-nuclear-weapons-policy-must-stop-un-expert-says">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nuclear-weapons">Nuclear weapons</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/unitednations">United Nations</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 16:22:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/14/talk-in-iran-about-change-in-nuclear-weapons-policy-must-stop-un-expert-says</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d91cbbabb259e1ddbb4a61d270a9bd152e4c4ee4/0_247_3702_2221/master/3702.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4a5ca86e94cd3a79ad8510634468536d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/d91cbbabb259e1ddbb4a61d270a9bd152e4c4ee4/0_247_3702_2221/master/3702.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bc3a966d48a3766c240bd40aebc99c77"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-14T16:22:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof flees Iran to avoid prison</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/iranian-film-director-mohammad-rasoulof-flees-iran-to-avoid-prison</link> <description><p>Director had been sentenced for ‘collusion with the intention of committing a crime against the country’s security’</p><p>The Iranian film director Mohammad Rasoulof has secretly fled Iran after he was <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof">sentenced to prison</a> amid pressure over his latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig, which is due to premiere at the Cannes film festival this week.</p><p>Jean-Christophe Simon, CEO of Films Boutique and Parallel45, distributors of the film, confirmed on Monday that Rasoulof had fled Iran for Europe. “We are very happy and much relieved that Mohammad has safely arrived in Europe after a dangerous journey. We hope he will be able to attend the Cannes premiere,” he said.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/iranian-film-director-mohammad-rasoulof-flees-iran-to-avoid-prison">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/cannesfilmfestival">Cannes film festival</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/festivals">Festivals</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 19:53:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/13/iranian-film-director-mohammad-rasoulof-flees-iran-to-avoid-prison</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79784081f7efbf5e9251cd7e3d33724365769a9a/0_115_3444_2066/master/3444.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5663a43c8ed06cb366ecc04f6a0f2a93"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/79784081f7efbf5e9251cd7e3d33724365769a9a/0_115_3444_2066/master/3444.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=22e178b6433e8579c7e955d97d823e41"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: François Mori/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Angelique Chrisafis in Paris and Catherine Shoard</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-13T19:53:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Coldplay and Sting call for release of Toomaj Salehi, Iranian rapper sentenced to death</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/10/coldplay-and-sting-release-iranian-rapper-sentenced-death-toomaj-salehi</link> <description><p>Leading cultural figures including Margaret Atwood sign statement in support of rapper who criticised Iranian regime</p><p>More than 100 figures from the worlds of music, culture and human rights activism – including Coldplay and Sting – have signed a statement calling for the release of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/iranian-authority-undermined-after-death-sentence-for-toomaj-salehi-rapper-sparks-global-protests">Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi</a> who has been sentenced to death in Iran after protesting in support of women’s rights.</p><p>The 33-year-old, who was a vocal supporter of the Women, Life, Freedom movement in Iran was sentenced to death by a court in the city of Isfahan on 24 April, according to his lawyer.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/10/coldplay-and-sting-release-iranian-rapper-sentenced-death-toomaj-salehi">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/music">Music</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/popandrock">Pop and rock</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/coldplay">Coldplay</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/sting">Sting</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/margaretatwood">Margaret Atwood</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/music/little-mix">Little Mix</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/censorship">Censorship</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 23:01:24 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/10/coldplay-and-sting-release-iranian-rapper-sentenced-death-toomaj-salehi</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/378898e52b4ee5ed790d3663030a00b829dc8e87/0_146_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=66763445466b1a65e9e81771bf653a9f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/378898e52b4ee5ed790d3663030a00b829dc8e87/0_146_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=739b7d61fa9985e73769b3d02dff841d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Aneesa Ahmed</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-09T23:01:24Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof sentenced to eight years in prison and flogging</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof</link> <description><p>Rasoulof is one of Iran’s leading directors and his film The Seed of the Sacred Fig is due to premiere at Cannes film festival</p><p>The Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof has been sentenced to eight years in prison, flogging, a fine and the confiscation of property, his lawyer has confirmed.</p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/DrPaknia/status/1788212856720076867">Writing on X</a>, Babak Paknia, a human rights lawyer representing Rasoulof, said that the judgment was confirmed in a court of appeal and the case had now been sent for enforcement.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/world-cinema">World cinema</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/film/film">Film</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2024 19:10:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/08/iranian-director-sentenced-prison-flogging-mohammad-rasoulof</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5ecd9177bd718bd701216967497ed0157657167a/0_182_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5ec830de4e7eb1b8fa3d754e90bc93ad"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5ecd9177bd718bd701216967497ed0157657167a/0_182_3500_2101/master/3500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=0cfb0bf8c715d4b934f37621c1bcd073"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Stéphane Mahé/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Catherine Shoard</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-08T19:10:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Nightmares about Rwanda’: Iranian asylum seeker facing deportation from UK</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/07/nightmares-about-rwanda-iranian-asylum-seeker-facing-deportation-from-uk</link> <description><p>Engineer living in Liverpool says he fears being arrested at any moment after receiving deportation notice</p><p>Roozbeh*, 34, is a civil engineer from Iran. He fled his country fearing for his life after the government found out he had converted from Islam to Christianity. He arrived in the UK in December 2022, has received a notice of intent to be sent to Rwanda and fears that he could be arrested and detained at any moment.</p><p>“When I crossed the border from Iran into Turkey I stepped into the unknown. I had never left my country before and I knew the journey was going to be very dangerous. I was put into lorry after lorry and did not know what countries I passed through.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/07/nightmares-about-rwanda-iranian-asylum-seeker-facing-deportation-from-uk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/immigration">Immigration and asylum</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/home-office">Home Office</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/rwanda">Rwanda</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 06:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/07/nightmares-about-rwanda-iranian-asylum-seeker-facing-deportation-from-uk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5499b354e1066cc5a7c6c89897e28aa5255131bd/0_84_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f5a1a24691f9a99b650b825030cbafc6"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/5499b354e1066cc5a7c6c89897e28aa5255131bd/0_84_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=7fc76ac20b054b3d0b597879d8b4bf97"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Mark Waugh/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Diane Taylor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-07T06:00:00Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I am ready to return whenever they say’: Nasrin Sotoudeh on prison, the hijab, and violence in Iran</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran</link> <description><p>Exclusive: the human rights lawyer, temporarily released from jail on medical grounds, describes her love for her family, and why she keeps going despite brutal treatment at the hands of the regime</p><p>Iran’s Qarchak jail has been called many things: a torture chamber; the worst women’s prison in the world; unfit for humans. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/iran-arrests-top-rights-lawyer-at-funeral-of-teenage-girl-who-died-after-metro-incident">Nasrin Sotoudeh</a> uses just one word to describe the nine months she spent there: “Hell.”</p><p>Sotoudeh does not speak of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/jul/28/kylie-moore-gilbert-british-australian-academic-moved-to-notorious-iran-prison">the appalling conditions</a> or stench of sewage, the undrinkable water or lack of food, the disease or cruelty of solitary confinement. She simply says: “I am ready to return whenever they say.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/nasrin-sotoudeh">Nasrin Sotoudeh</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/womens-rights-and-gender-equality">Women's rights and gender equality</category> <pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 10:00:37 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/may/06/i-am-ready-to-return-whenever-they-say-nasrin-sotoudeh-on-prison-the-hijab-and-violence-in-iran</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b296afa18224f6fa7f2a8815856dfef8c21e1e95/0_62_1400_840/master/1400.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=9cce7ac3a8a680cc4e2eb00ebacbc8a2"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: suplied</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/b296afa18224f6fa7f2a8815856dfef8c21e1e95/0_62_1400_840/master/1400.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4ec94d25b620af8a783173b71f01cf7a"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: suplied</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Isabel Choat</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-06T10:00:37Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Guardian view on transnational repression: dissidents need safety in their new homes | Editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/the-guardian-view-on-transnational-repression-dissidents-need-safety-in-their-new-homes</link> <description><p>Authoritarian governments are extending their pursuit of critics far beyond their borders</p><p>Forty-five years ago, the Bulgarian dissident <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/from-the-archive-blog/2020/sep/09/georgi-markov-killed-poisoned-umbrella-london-1978">Georgi Markov</a> was killed in London with a poison-tipped umbrella as he made his way home from work. The horrifying case transfixed the British public.</p><p>So transnational repression is not new, including on British shores. But unless its target is unusually high-profile, or it uses startling tactics such as those employed by Markov’s killers – or in the attempt to assassinate Sergei Skripal – much of it passes with minimal attention.</p><p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click </a></strong></em><em><strong><a href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">here</a>.</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/the-guardian-view-on-transnational-repression-dissidents-need-safety-in-their-new-homes">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/law/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/journalist-safety">Journalist safety</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/pressandpublishing">Newspapers & magazines</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia">Russia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/turkey">Turkey</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/justin-trudeau">Justin Trudeau</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/hong-kong">Hong Kong</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 17:30:15 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/05/the-guardian-view-on-transnational-repression-dissidents-need-safety-in-their-new-homes</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/67b917c55fa5a6829f624761332d85fa3ddba6af/0_135_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cda9a9ec30c35b5717648273e6f3258e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/67b917c55fa5a6829f624761332d85fa3ddba6af/0_135_4000_2401/master/4000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=73e62c631c3a1f4296f221f6543827cf"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ozan Köse/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-05T17:30:15Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘Our culture is dying’: vulture shortage threatens Zoroastrian burial rites</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan</link> <description><p>Inadvertent poisoning of scavengers across Indian subcontinent is forcing some communities to give up ancient custom</p><p>Traditional Zoroastrian burial rites are becoming increasingly impossible to perform because of the precipitous decline of vultures in India, Iran and Pakistan.</p><p>For millennia, Parsi communities have traditionally disposed of their dead in structures called <em>dakhma,</em> or “towers of silence”. These circular, elevated edifices are designed to prevent the soil, and the sacred elements of earth, fire and water, from being contaminated by corpses.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/pakistan">Pakistan</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/india">India</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/south-and-central-asia">South and central Asia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/birds">Birds</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/pharmaceuticals-industry">Pharmaceuticals industry</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/death-and-dying">Death and dying</category> <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 05:00:35 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/04/vulture-shortage-threatens-zoroastrian-burial-rites-india-iran-pakistan</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/31154e13cb90ed5e06b8df5852929759edf52dc4/0_0_3423_2054/master/3423.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=1753ef5e54b031bb0eae944b10fc6271"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/31154e13cb90ed5e06b8df5852929759edf52dc4/0_0_3423_2054/master/3423.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=33b999853e70b90c637b1c27813baa95"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Sonia Gulzeb</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-04T05:00:35Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>‘I decided to not let anybody silence my voice’: the journalists in exile but still at risk</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2024/may/03/i-decided-to-not-let-anybody-silence-my-voice-the-journalists-in-exile-but-still-at-risk</link> <description><p>Threats from the state have led many journalists across the world to flee their home countries to report from elsewhere. But for many the intimidation did not stop when they left</p><p><em>Illustrations by Joe McKendry</em></p><p><em><strong>Fardad Farahzad, journalist, Iran International</strong></em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2024/may/03/i-decided-to-not-let-anybody-silence-my-voice-the-journalists-in-exile-but-still-at-risk">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/global-development">Global development</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/press-freedom">Press freedom</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/pressandpublishing">Newspapers & magazines</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/media">Media</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/haiti">Haiti</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/turkey">Turkey</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/china">China</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/venezuela">Venezuela</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/belarus">Belarus</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Fri, 03 May 2024 04:00:28 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-interactive/2024/may/03/i-decided-to-not-let-anybody-silence-my-voice-the-journalists-in-exile-but-still-at-risk</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f4e375d2303823b272199278211342a93eb346f5/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8206fbe8822ca3630dd702ca9b5b5a78"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Joe McKendry/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f4e375d2303823b272199278211342a93eb346f5/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=fd5db32e4bbf526d72357f55205dddec"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Joe McKendry/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-05-03T04:00:28Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>The Guardian view on the women of Iran: still resisting repression | Editorial</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-women-of-iran-still-resisting-repression</link> <description><p>The regime wants to crush resistance. But those it rules continue to push back against its brutality</p><p>The protests that exploded across Iran following <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2022/sep/23/how-iran-erupted-after-mahsa-amini-death-protests">Mahsa Amini’s death</a> in custody in September 2022 were a turning point. The young Iranian-Kurdish woman had been detained by the “morality police” for “improper hijab”. Not only did young women take to the streets and cast off their scarves in fury, but parents and grandparents came too. The protests were strikingly socially diverse. Critically, men joined the cries of “woman, life, freedom”. The regime reacted with predictable fury, <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/stories/2024/03/woman-life-freedom-survivors-want-end-state-impunity-iran">killing hundreds and arresting thousands</a>. It succeeded in suppressing the demonstrations. But many women refused to return to obeying the strict dress code.</p><p>It was inevitable that the Iranian leadership would strike back. Its quarrel is not only with women’s liberties, but with the precedent set for defiance. It is determined to crush opposition as it crushed the street protests, with a court <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/iranian-authority-undermined-after-death-sentence-for-toomaj-salehi-rapper-sparks-global-protests">sentencing a popular rapper to death –</a> not for violence but simply dissent. Toomaj Salehi, courageous in supporting the nationwide protests in 2022, was found guilty of “corruption on Earth”. He had previously been sentenced to six years over his role, before being freed by a court citing a technicality.</p><p><em><strong>Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? 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domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/women">Women</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/protest">Protest</category> <pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:03:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/30/the-guardian-view-on-the-women-of-iran-still-resisting-repression</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f9c9af7dac97ada08b0e303538580cd2bd7e790/0_13_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=52563806ca4ac6c746359d80923cd809"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: UGC/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9f9c9af7dac97ada08b0e303538580cd2bd7e790/0_13_2500_1500/master/2500.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ef01c68a0f6bd4eb985ffaf0f2c0f71b"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: UGC/AFP/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Editorial</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-30T18:03:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>David Cameron urges Hamas to agree to 40-day Gaza ceasefire deal</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/david-cameron-urges-hamas-to-agree-to-40-day-gaza-ceasefire-deal</link> <description><p>Foreign secretary also calls on Arab states to accept that Hamas leaders responsible for 7 October attack must leave the territory</p><p>David Cameron has urged Hamas to agree to a deal for a sustained 40-day ceasefire in Gaza and the release of potentially thousands of hostages and prisoners.</p><p>The foreign secretary also challenged Arab states to accept that the Hamas military leadership responsible for the attack on 7 October must leave Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/david-cameron-urges-hamas-to-agree-to-40-day-gaza-ceasefire-deal">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/davidcameron">David Cameron</category> <category 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<guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/29/david-cameron-urges-hamas-to-agree-to-40-day-gaza-ceasefire-deal</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a94cebd8db02e5bd18bec80f3a282745e3a38cd7/0_130_3777_2267/master/3777.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=8161062f40f72bffbc76ef886b7f8a56"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/a94cebd8db02e5bd18bec80f3a282745e3a38cd7/0_130_3777_2267/master/3777.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e3e8f2efcb3a52f6ea8a6823d94d594e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Vladimir Pirogov/Reuters</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T16:35:56Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Iran’s death sentence for rapper sparks protests and undermines criticism of US</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/iranian-authority-undermined-after-death-sentence-for-toomaj-salehi-rapper-sparks-global-protests</link> <description><p>Regime’s effort to exploit US campus crackdown damaged by treatment of Toomaj Salehi</p><p>An Iranian court’s decision to pass the death sentence against Toomaj Salehi, a popular Iranian rapper and regime opponent, has led to international protests and damaged Iran’s fledgling efforts to exploit crackdowns on unrest in US university campuses over Gaza as an abuse of human rights.</p><p>Crowds gathered in the US, Europe and Canada on Sunday to support Salehi, while <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/european-mps-seek-to-publicise-plight-of-jailed-iranian-protesters">dozens of political prisoners</a> in Iran’s Ghezel Hesar prison issued a statement condemning the death sentence, calling it “the culmination of gross human rights violations in Iran”. Salehi has also won the support of major US rappers, as well as human rights groups.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/iranian-authority-undermined-after-death-sentence-for-toomaj-salehi-rapper-sparks-global-protests">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/capital-punishment">Capital punishment</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:27:52 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/29/iranian-authority-undermined-after-death-sentence-for-toomaj-salehi-rapper-sparks-global-protests</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/378898e52b4ee5ed790d3663030a00b829dc8e87/0_146_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=66763445466b1a65e9e81771bf653a9f"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/378898e52b4ee5ed790d3663030a00b829dc8e87/0_146_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=739b7d61fa9985e73769b3d02dff841d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-29T12:27:52Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Middle East crisis: Hamas ‘reviewing new Israeli ceasefire proposal’ – as it happened</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/27/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-hamas-war-iran-red-sea-houthis</link> <description><p>This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">coverage of the Middle East crisis here</a></p><p><strong>Three people have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday, including two members of Hezbollah,</strong> AFP reports, citing statements from the militant group and official media.</p><p>Hezbollah released statements mourning the deaths of two fighters from the villages of Kafr Kila and Khiam, saying they had been “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/27/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-hamas-war-iran-red-sea-houthis">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/gaza">Gaza</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/palestinian-territories">Palestinian territories</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/houthi">Houthis</category> <pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2024 14:54:17 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/apr/27/middle-east-crisis-israel-gaza-hamas-war-iran-red-sea-houthis</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0dbd4a95cdd8c3b7fa8391b23e2e530bc3a783f0/0_159_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=e5e4b2f568bd04df6197bbc48ecbb90c"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0dbd4a95cdd8c3b7fa8391b23e2e530bc3a783f0/0_159_6000_3600/master/6000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=c69633d827151773f605fc7f62bb65f0"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Atef Safadi/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Tom Ambrose (now) and Clea Skopeliti (earlier)</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-27T14:54:17Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Jeremy Corbyn’s call for ‘peace’ plays into the hands of anti-western dictators | Letter</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/jeremy-corbyn-call-for-peace-plays-into-the-hands-of-anti-western-dictators</link> <description><p>To support arms for Ukraine and defending Red Sea shipping is part of Labour’s anti-fascist tradition, writes <strong>Paul Mason</strong></p><p>Two years ago in Madrid, I watched Jeremy Corbyn launch a pan-European campaign to end arms supplies to Ukraine. As he did so, a friend in the Ukrainian army sent me a photo of the machine gun that he’d been issued with: it was made in 1944. If the west had not poured billions of pounds worth of arms and ammunition into Ukraine, its people would have been massacred and enslaved.</p><p>So forgive me if I describe Mr Corbyn’s call for “peace” as a meaningless abstraction (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/leaders-war-gaza-jeremy-corbyn">Our leaders seem determined to give war a chance. Their thirst for conflict endangers us all, 23 April</a>). The only peace Vladimir Putin is offering the Ukrainian people is that of the grave and, by campaigning to deprive them of weapons, Mr Corbyn is not helping.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/jeremy-corbyn-call-for-peace-plays-into-the-hands-of-anti-western-dictators">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/labour">Labour</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/jeremy-corbyn">Jeremy Corbyn</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/politics">Politics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/antiwar">Anti-war movement</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine">Ukraine</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/royal-navy">Royal Navy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/military">Military</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:31:26 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/jeremy-corbyn-call-for-peace-plays-into-the-hands-of-anti-western-dictators</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9a8f29bd5528ef660a79d639fdb3d4bae2a68262/0_219_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a1215693a56c9a9cd3da6da4775e88c4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AS1 Jake Green/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/9a8f29bd5528ef660a79d639fdb3d4bae2a68262/0_219_3600_2160/master/3600.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a04afdf7f91720771d021ecd0f08d5b4"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: AS1 Jake Green/AP</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T17:31:26Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>How Iran has intensified its crackdown on women under cover of war – video explainer</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/25/how-iran-has-intensified-its-crackdown-on-women-under-cover-of-war-video-explainer</link> <description><p>Iran's 'morality police' have intensified their crackdown on women defying hijab rules in several cities over the past week in the shadows of the country’s conflict with Israel. Footage circulating online shows an increased number of officials patrolling streets since 12 April and, in some cases, violently dragging women into the back of white vans. It comes after the police chief, Abbas Ali Mohammadian, announced a new phase to crack down on women defying the hijab rules. Some people in Iran are calling this is a war on women, at a time when the world’s attention is on tensions in the Middle East</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/25/how-iran-has-intensified-its-crackdown-on-women-under-cover-of-war-video-explainer">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/human-rights">Human rights</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 14:30:14 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2024/apr/25/how-iran-has-intensified-its-crackdown-on-women-under-cover-of-war-video-explainer</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/98a54cbf00c7e9191265fbd873307a9c5ac06379/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b7287e6930a31cf9dc832cb260a2fc39"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Twitter</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/98a54cbf00c7e9191265fbd873307a9c5ac06379/60_0_1800_1080/master/1800.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=5e9ee63e1080205d5aba636a7828b82d"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Twitter</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Deepa Parent, Maheen Sadiq and Monika Čvorak</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T14:30:14Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Oil price could exceed $100 a barrel if Middle East conflict worsens, World Bank warns</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns</link> <description><p>Increase in cost of crude could drive inflation up and force central banks to keep interest rates high</p><p>• <a href="https://viewer.gutools.co.uk/business/live/2024/apr/25/bhp-proposes-takeover-anglo-american-mining-us-gdp-ftse-100-business-live">Business live – latest updates</a></p><p>A serious escalation of tensions in the Middle East would push the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/middle-east-conflict-risks-a-sharp-rise-in-oil-prices-says-imf">price of oil</a> above $100 (£80) a barrel and reverse the recent downward trend in global inflation, the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/21/world-bank-chief-economist-indermit-gill-g20-debt-relief-mechanism-common-framework">World Bank</a> has said.</p><p>The Washington-based institution said the recent fall in commodity prices had been levelling off even before the recent missile strikes by Iran and Israel – making interest rate decisions for central banks tougher.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/oil">Oil</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/inflation">Inflation</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel-hamas-war">Israel-Gaza war</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/business">Business</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/commodities">Commodities</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/economics">Economics</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/worldbank">World Bank</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/business/global-economy">Global economy</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:31:23 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/25/oil-price-could-exceed-100-a-barrel-if-middle-east-conflict-worsens-world-bank-warns</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bee42138c04c79b5074102aa14ed45cbff43716b/0_53_4515_2709/master/4515.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=d18da31481d71b450ecb3ba42cffa072"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/bee42138c04c79b5074102aa14ed45cbff43716b/0_53_4515_2709/master/4515.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=adae0b1ff753fd379ab261c0cf890f1e"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Larry Elliott Economics editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T12:31:23Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Lack of action on Iran could lead to more threats and attacks in UK, says journalist</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/lack-of-action-on-iran-could-lead-to-more-threats-and-attacks-in-uk-says-journalist</link> <description><p>Dissidents and broadcasters feeling unsafe after stabbing of Pouria Zeraati in London call for ‘deterrent signal’</p><p>A former BBC journalist has said the UK government will “pay a heavy price” for its lack of action against the Iranian regime, which could lead to more “threats” and “operations” in Britain, after the stabbing of an Iranian journalist in London.</p><p>Sima Sabet, a former journalist at the BBC World Service and the dissident channel Iran International, said there would be more transnational repression unless the government issued a “deterrent signal” to the Iranian regime.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/lack-of-action-on-iran-could-lead-to-more-threats-and-attacks-in-uk-says-journalist">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/foreignpolicy">Foreign policy</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/press-freedom">Press freedom</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/media/journalist-safety">Journalist safety</category> <pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2024 07:00:20 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/25/lack-of-action-on-iran-could-lead-to-more-threats-and-attacks-in-uk-says-journalist</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc4c5f3a98893cf39684ed921a7d452b7be48ce7/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=570459b9f93e3eeb306cc79b2574f1f8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: handout</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/cc4c5f3a98893cf39684ed921a7d452b7be48ce7/0_0_5000_3000/master/5000.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=60cc63d4922e4258bd85b509bde9c2bd"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Composite: handout</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Neha Gohil Community affairs editor</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-25T07:00:20Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Clock this delightful paean to dandelions | Brief letters</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/clock-this-delightful-paean-to-dandelions</link> <description><p>Country diary | Isfahan’s sights | Dilyn the dog’s fleas | Bald truths | Pate expectations</p><p>I concur with Val Kirby’s letter (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/apr/18/the-greatest-fender-stratocaster-player-youve-never-heard-of">18 April</a>) about Jim Perrin’s prose “in praise of celandines” and her wish that he could turn his silver pen to extolling the virtues of the dandelion. I refer her to a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/feb/28/wenlock-edge-dandelion-solar-system">Country Diary from 28 February 2012</a> by Paul Evans about the dandelion’s “ephemeral solar system”. It’s a paean to that much-maligned “astronomical image of the sun in all its boiling, flaring power”. Exquisite writing that has remained with me for 12 years.<br><strong>Linda Ellingham</strong><br><em>Rogate, West Sussex</em></p><p>• A number of important historical and architectural sights, such as the Shah mosque, Naqsh-e Jahan Square and Ali Qapu palace, were omitted from your article (<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/19/whats-in-isfahan-the-city-home-to-iranian-nuclear-facilities?CMP=share_btn_url">What’s in Isfahan? The city home to Iranian nuclear facilities, 19 April</a>). This beautiful city in Iran has much more to it than just military and nuclear facilities.<br><strong>Sara Wyatt</strong><br><em>London</em></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/clock-this-delightful-paean-to-dandelions">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/wild-flowers">Wild flowers</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture">Architecture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/liz-truss">Liz Truss</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/books">Books</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/books/autobiography-and-memoir">Autobiography and memoir</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/skin-cancer">Skin cancer</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/uk">UK news</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/hair-loss">Hair loss</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/culture">Culture</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/artanddesign">Art and design</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/society/society">Society</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:11:27 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/24/clock-this-delightful-paean-to-dandelions</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a76173bbbccfc3e3410788e47b6c600b68ab99a/0_16_5200_3120/master/5200.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b4d9d677754d8e1b1771e5a61feaa027"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Martin Ruegner/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/0a76173bbbccfc3e3410788e47b6c600b68ab99a/0_16_5200_3120/master/5200.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=58e02c195c80788f67feaff47d7756e8"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Photograph: Martin Ruegner/Getty Images</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Guardian Staff</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T17:11:27Z</dc:date> </item> <item> <title>Israel and Iran cross the line: inside the 26 April Guardian Weekly</title> <link>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/24/israel-and-iran-cross-the-line-inside-the-26-april-guardian-weekly</link> <description><p>What next for the Middle East? Plus: Britain and the new ‘nanny state’<br>• <strong><a href="https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly?promoCode=WWM53X">Get the Guardian Weekly delivered to your home address</a></strong></p><p>The tit for tat strikes by Israel and Iran last week may not – yet – have led to all-out regional war. But the direct attacks on each other’s territories have crossed a significant red line and presented the surrounding Gulf states with a serious security dilemma. What the likes of Saudi Arabia and Jordan do next could go a long way to deciding the outcome of the crisis.</p><p>The key question now, as <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/profile/patrickwintour">Patrick Wintour</a> outlines for our big story this week, is whether the Sunni monarchies fear Iran and its proxies more than they detest Israel and the damage it is inflicting on Gaza.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/24/israel-and-iran-cross-the-line-inside-the-26-april-guardian-weekly">Continue reading...</a></description> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/israel">Israel</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/iran">Iran</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/middleeast">Middle East and north Africa</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/saudiarabia">Saudi Arabia</category> <category domain="https://www.theguardian.com/world/world">World news</category> <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:10:01 GMT</pubDate> <guid>https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/apr/24/israel-and-iran-cross-the-line-inside-the-26-april-guardian-weekly</guid> <media:content width="140" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92c50345e9b85e62575822f3949ea6b53f5d123b/135_0_6549_3934/master/6549.jpg?width=140&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=ae4aa70eea86fddeadfb8658b62de274"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Brian Stauffer/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <media:content width="460" url="https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/92c50345e9b85e62575822f3949ea6b53f5d123b/135_0_6549_3934/master/6549.jpg?width=460&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b6e45b69dfc4165ba5a7e5b30534e9b3"> <media:credit scheme="urn:ebu">Illustration: Brian Stauffer/The Guardian</media:credit> </media:content> <dc:creator>Graham Snowdon</dc:creator> <dc:date>2024-04-24T17:10:01Z</dc:date> </item> </channel></rss> If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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