{"id":328886,"date":"2025-02-23T09:26:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-23T08:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=328886"},"modified":"2025-02-23T15:44:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-23T14:44:38","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-february-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-february-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 February 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Hamburg, Germany, held a bookstand on February 22, 2025<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Hezbollah Facing Financial Squeeze as Supply Lines from Iran Are Severed<\/h3>\n

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BEIRUT \u2014 As Hezbollah prepares to hold an elaborate funeral Sunday for its slain leader Hasan Nasrallah, the group he led for more than 30 years is struggling with a looming financial crisis after traditional supply lines of money from Iran have been severed.<\/p>\n

The United States, Israel and the new rulers of Syria, who overthrew Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the longtime Hezbollah ally, have clamped down on the Lebanese militant group\u2019s sources of funding and weapons, analysts said.<\/p>\n

The financial straits come at a time when Hezbollah is under pressure to compensate and provide support to constituents disgruntled with the slow pace of reconstruction after their villages and neighborhoods were damaged in the group\u2019s recent war with Israel. The World Bank said in a preliminary report in November that the conflict cost Lebanon an estimated $8.5 billion in physical damage and economic losses.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 9:00 AM CET<\/span><\/p>\n

International Conference on International Women\u2019s Day<\/h3>\n

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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi’s speech: “Happy International Women\u2019s Day, a day that symbolizes uprising and rebellion to build a new world devoid of repression, oppression, and exploitation.<\/p>\n

“We pay tribute to the women who laid the foundation for this day, and we salute the countless heroines whose names shine brightly in the long history of Iranian women\u2019s resistance, particularly those in the Resistance Units who today are prepared to be arrested, tortured and executed.<\/p>\n

“Their struggle is the continuation of a struggle that has continued for nearly 44 years in Iran. Khamenei has time and again described it as a civil war. On one side are the masses of the people of Iran, and on the other is religious fascism that seeks to guarantee its survival with nuclear bombs<\/strong><\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Butting Bulls: Factional Infighting Grips Iran\u2019s Regime as Economic Crisis Deepens<\/h3>\n

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With the expansion of protests in Iran and the social repercussions of the dire increase in prices and unsolvable imbalances, the regime\u2019s internal crisis has reached a new stage. Regime president Masoud Pezeshkian, describing the dispute between the Minister of Energy and the Minister of Oil, referred to the proverb of a hard ground and butting bulls, saying: \u201cThese ministers of ours sometimes fall short in the oil, electricity, and gas sectors, so they blame each other. We are really facing problems in electricity and gas supply right now. Reserves have also decreased; one won\u2019t give, and the other won\u2019t send reserves. And there\u2019s no way to send reserves at all. The ground is hard; we can\u2019t plow it, so we butt heads with each other\u201d (state-run TV, February 13, 2025).<\/p>\n

The first days of Esfand (the last month in the Iranian calendar, corresponds to February 20 \u2013 March 20) and Bahman 30 (February 18) saw two consecutive sessions of the regime\u2019s parliament (Majlis), where regime officials expressed fear of a \u201crevolution of the hungry\u201d and the sinking of the regime\u2019s ship.<\/p>\n

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Iran: Some Nurses Are Homeless and Sleep in Their Cars<\/h3>\n

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Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam, the Secretary-General of Iran\u2019s Home of Nurses, says that some nurses in Tehran are homeless and, to avoid paying rent, work multiple shifts and sleep in their personal cars during rest hours. On Saturday, February 22, Sharifi-Moghaddam told the state-run ILNA news agency that these nurses even use hospital showers for bathing and \u201clive in a homeless manner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sharifi-Moghaddam stated that according to World Health Organization standards, there should be three nurses per 1,000 people to prevent increased patient mortality. However, he added that in recent years, Iran has set a record low, with only \u201cone and a half nurses\u201d per 1,000 people.<\/p>\n

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Iranian Regime MP Warns About Intensified Medicine Shortages<\/h3>\n

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In continuation of the medicine crisis in Iran, Mohammad Jamalian, a member of the Health and Treatment Commission in the Iranian regime\u2019s Majlis (parliament), announced that in the \u201ccoming months,\u201d medicine shortages will be seen with \u201cgreater intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamalian issued this warning in an interview with the state-run ILNA news agency, which was published on Friday, February 21.<\/p>\n

Jamalian said, \u201cThe medicine production cycle has been disrupted, and even if the situation is corrected today, it will take four months to compensate for this deficiency. For this reason, unfortunately, in the coming months, we will see medicine shortages with greater intensity.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Qezel-Hesar Prison \u2013 Final Part<\/h3>\n

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The anti-monarchic revolution in Iran took place in February 1979. The Iranian people, through widespread protests and paying a heavy price, overthrew the Shah and wiped out the dictatorial monarchy from the history of Iran. However, the spring of freedom was short-lived. Due to the imprisonment of true revolutionaries in the Shah\u2019s prisons, Khomeini hijacked the revolution and imposed the dark and oppressive rule of the clerical regime on Iran.<\/p>\n

From the very first months of the regime\u2019s rule, the repression of dissidents began. The regime, through brutal attacks by the Revolutionary Guards on opposition gatherings and protests, arbitrary arrests, and torture, revealed its true face, and human rights in Iran under clerical rule were brutally trampled upon.<\/p>\n

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Baluchistan Under Attack as Iranian Security Forces Launch Brutal Raid<\/h3>\n

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According to local Baluchistan media reports, in the early hours of Friday, February 21, 2025, security and military forces in Zahedan launched an extensive and armed raid on a family\u2019s home in the Kharkoohi neighborhood of Saadi 4 Street. The forces arrested all the male members of a Baluch family and violently assaulted a woman residing in the house. As reported by Baluchistan local media, from 1:00 AM to 3:00 AM on February 21, 2025, the raid and gunfire targeting this house in Zahedan continued with a large presence of plain clothes and military forces. After clashing with the residents, the forces arrested all the male family members. They severely beat a woman who tried to prevent the detentions, resulting in her arm being broken due to the brutality of the security forces.<\/p>\n

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Exhibition in Paris Highlights Iran\u2019s Human Rights Violations and Calls for International Action<\/h3>\n
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