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A French prosecutor Friday sought a one-year jail term for an Iranian woman accused of promoting "terrorism" online in a case linked to a possible prisoner swap with two French citizens. Judgment in the case is expected on February 26. Mahdieh Esfandiari, a 39-year-old Iranian, was arrested in France in February on charges of promoting and inciting "terrorism" on social media.

The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't want to see. But the surviving victims can never forget. They can't turn away. Their memories are passed on from parent to child. That's what the world is, after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.

"Several weeks ago, invitations were issued to individual government representatives from Iran. In light of current events, the Munich Security Conference will not uphold these invitations," an MSC spokesperson told the German Press Agency in response to an inquiry. Earlier, the German Foreign Office had advised against extending an invitation. "We consider participation inappropriate in view of the bloody suppression of protests," a spokesperson said at a press conference.

But listen, I pushed back so many times. This interview at times is frustrating, but with specifics, with details on the ground, and essentially what he's saying is that this was a Mossad operation from Israel, that they looked like Iranian agents designed to kill a large number of people, and that was designed to spark President Trump's action into Iran.

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and other close allies of President Donald Trump fumed on Wednesday after reporters went around that Iranian state TV broadcast an image threatening to assassinate the president. Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on the image of the 2024 Butler rally assassination attempt on President Trump that included the caption, This time it will not miss the target. The New York Post quickly pushed out a viral story headlined, Iran issues sickening assassination threat against Trump.

Gold keeps cranking higher with spot prices moving to a new all-time high a whisker off $4,640, while silver extended its parabolic rally to clear $90. Crude prices were at three-month highs with Brent (continuous) running into resistance at the 200-day moving average around $65.75, as flagged in yesterday's note. WTI spiked to $61.50 - as noted on Friday a clear break above $59 was likely to see a swift move toward the $60-61 area.

Because it severed the country's internet connection, facts are difficult to establish, but the respected Human Rights Activists in Iran has confirmed 544 have been killed and well over 10,000 arrested those numbers are probably significant underestimates. Here is a regime that consolidated its power in the 1980s by butchering leftists helped, it should be noted, by both MI6 and the CIA, who supplied them with lists of alleged Soviet agents.

The internet was only cut after we confronted terrorist operations, and realised that orders were coming from outside the country, Araghchi told Al Jazeera. We have recorded voices of individuals giving orders from abroad to terrorist agents, instructing them to fire at police forces and fire at demonstrators if police forces were not present. Their intention was to spread killing.

President Donald Trump said Monday that he'll impose a tariff of 25% on any country that does business with Iran. "Effective immediately, any Country doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran will pay a Tariff of 25% on any and all business being done with the United States of America," Trump said in a post on Truth Social. The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. This story is breaking. Check back for updates.

The country has been rocked by two weeks of widespread protests since the currency collapsed. Widespread unrest, killings and arrests have taken place during protests in Iran sparked by a collapse in the local currency. The leadership says that it will listen to demonstrators, but that rioters face the death penalty. As the United States warns against a crackdown, how volatile is the situation?

"As with the protests since December 2017, there's often an economic catalyst," she told DW. "But if we listen to the slogans, and the extent of the protests, it's about profound dissatisfaction with the Iranian regime and the desire for that regime to disappear."

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been warning of a grave Iranian threat to Israel and the world for more than 30 years. United States President Donald Trump heeded those warnings in June and bombed Tehran's nuclear facilities. But it appears that Netanyahu is still not satisfied and will be pushing for more military actions against Iran when he returns to the US on Sunday to visit Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.

Ikramuddin Saree, a former police commander in Afghanistan's Takhar and Baghlan provinces under the pre-Taliban republic, was shot dead on the evening of December 24 outside his office in Tehran. Sources close to him and the anti-Taliban National Resistance Front of Afghanistan confirmed the killing, saying Saree and a companion died while another was wounded. Ali Maisam Nazary, a spokesman for the opposition group, accused the Taliban of orchestrating the assassination. The Taliban has not commented.

On the streets of Iran's capital, Tehran, young women are increasingly flouting the compulsory hijab laws, posting videos online that show them walking the streets unveiled. Their defiance comes more than three years after the killing of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman taken into custody by the morality police for allegedly breaching the dress code rules. Her death led to the largest wave of popular unrest for years in Iran and a crackdown by security services in response,