{"id":337366,"date":"2025-09-23T06:43:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=337366"},"modified":"2025-09-23T19:28:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T18:28:03","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-september-23-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-september-23-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 September 23, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"
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UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

US Sanctions Son of Iran Regime Insider, Chinese Shipping Firm, and Tankers<\/h3>\n

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The United States has expanded sanctions targeting networks accused of helping the clerical dictatorship evade oil restrictions, adding a Dubai-based company tied to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, the son of a senior adviser to Ali Khamenei, along with a Chinese shipping firm and four tankers.<\/p>\n

The Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced<\/a> on September 23 that Milavous Group Ltd, registered in Dubai\u2019s International Finance Center, was designated for its links to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani. Bloomberg previously reported that Milavous had generated billions of dollars through trade involving Iran, Russia, and other countries. Shamkhani, born in Tehran in 1984, holds dual Iranian and Dominican citizenship and has used the aliases \u201cHugo\u201d and \u201cHector.\u201d Both the EU and the UK had already sanctioned him.<\/p>\n

OFAC also blacklisted Peace Worth Shipping Co., based in Hong Kong, accusing it of facilitating sanctions evasion for Tehran. Four tankers \u2014 flagged in Panama, Gabon, and Palau \u2014 were listed as part of the network.<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Washington has targeted Shamkhani\u2019s operations. In August, the Treasury sanctioned over 50 vessels tied to what it described as a vast smuggling enterprise managed by him.<\/p>\n

The measures reflect the Trump administration\u2019s revived \u201cmaximum pressure\u201d policy after returning to the White House, seeking to choke off the clerical dictatorship\u2019s oil revenues and financial channels. Officials said the goal is to push Tehran to alter its conduct, particularly over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n

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These North Texas Residents Are Headed To New York To Rally for Change in Iran<\/h3>\n

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Fereshteh Asadian dreams of her homeland of Iran when she goes to sleep at night.<\/p>\n

Her family came to the U.S. in 1977 for better educational opportunities. The last time the 68-year-old, who lives in Fort Worth, visited Iran was in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since then, she has not seen many members of her family, has missed holiday and cultural events, and missed the funeral for her father, she says holding back tears. The oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has kept her away. The regime has been accused of discrimination, human rights abuses, and suppression of dissenters, which has led to hundreds of thousands of Iranians fleeing since 1979.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 5:00 PM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iran Needs Regime Change, Not Rewards<\/h3>\n

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Imagine for a moment that Tehran\u2019s representatives contacted US Envoy Steve Witkoff and offered full dismantlement of their nuclear enrichment program, reliably verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and a commitment to forego any steps to build or acquire a nuclear weapon. The price? The United States would lift sanctions on Iran, unfreeze funds, and permit Iran to trade freely through the global financial system. Iran might also require assurances that its nuclear sites would face no further attacks by the United States or Israel.<\/p>\n

After more than two decades of frustrating effort, an elusive national security goal would finally be at hand: an end to the Iran nuclear threat. How could the United States say no?<\/p>\n

And yet, for many good reasons, \u201cno\u201d is the only acceptable answer. Here are five:<\/p>\n

First, Iran has never seriously adopted the goal of becoming a nuclear weapons state. The Soviet Union and the United States took six years to build an atomic bomb more than a half-century ago. Others did it in a dozen years or less. Iran, however, has been enriching uranium for 37 years, sometimes edging nearer to the weapons threshold, provoking headlines and official attention in Western capitals, but making sure never to trigger a crisis response. Tehran obviously finds the enrichment program useful even without a bomb.<\/p>\n

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Watch Live: National Council of Resistance of Iran Rally in New York City, Outside UN Headquarters<\/h3>\n

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Thousands of Iranian-Americans, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), are expected\u00a0gather in Manhattan\u00a0<\/a>on Tuesday and Wednesday to protest the presence of Iranian regime president Masoud Pezeshkian at the United Nations General Assembly, denouncing Tehran\u2019s human rights record and its advancing nuclear program.<\/p>\n

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The two-day rally at Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Plaza, across from UN headquarters, is being organized by the Organization of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) and sponsored by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).<\/p>\n

Organizers say participants will travel from 46 U.S. states, making it the largest Iranian diaspora gathering in the United States to coincide with the UNGA in recent years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST<\/strong><\/p>\n

Message from Maryam Rajavi on the 2025\u20132026 Academic Year<\/h3>\n

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This year, the first lesson, freedom, calls louder than ever, summoning the inquisitive generation of students to rise, to rebel, and to turn the reopening of schools and universities into a gateway to liberty. We salute the students who have fallen for freedom and those who have endured prison and torture\u2014from the devoted martyrs of the 1980s, especially the heroes of the September 27th epic, to the young people whose pure blood was shed by Khamenei\u2019s Revolutionary Guards during the 2022 uprising. The wide participation of students, particularly girls, in that uprising\u2014rising up in at least 1,700 high schools\u2014remains an unforgettable nightmare for the regime. Last May, after two years of concealment, Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei admitted that over 90,000 students university students, and teachers were arrested during the 2022 protests.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Back-To-School Crisis: How the Regime\u2019s \u2018Stationery Mafia\u2019 Is Robbing the Nation\u2019s Future<\/h3>\n

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As the new school year begins in Iran, a season that should be marked by hope and excitement has been transformed into one of anxiety and despair for millions of families. While shop windows are filled with colorful notebooks and pens, state-run media admits that behind these displays, \u201cprice tags are like the dark borders of a painting\u201d (IRNA, September 20), narrowing choices and silencing joy. For countless Iranians, the excitement of school has been extinguished amid the high prices, revealing a deep-seated crisis that goes far beyond simple economics. This is the story of a nation\u2019s future being systematically plundered by the corrupt mafias at the heart of the regime.<\/p>\n

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Broken Schools, Defiant Students: Iran Kicks Off a New Academic Year<\/h3>\n

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In the narrow lanes of a south-Tehran slum, eleven-year-old Zahra clutches a worn schoolbag and pauses before a rusted lock on her classroom door. Her teacher left when wages stopped coming. Yet the silence feels electric. This year\u2019s first subject isn\u2019t math or grammar, it\u2019s freedom, a call that grows louder each day and dares a new generation to turn the start of school into the start of liberation. Memories of 2022 are still burning. Back then, high schoolers transformed their own classrooms into arenas of revolt. Across at least 1,700 schools, students, especially girls, defied the clerical regime. After two years of official denial, Judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei finally conceded in May 2025 that more than 90,000 students and teachers were detained during those protests. Their courage continues to haunt the rulers and inspire today\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n

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Iranian Americans Intensify Protests in New York Ahead of Major Rally at the UN<\/h3>\n
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