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Next week’s presidential election in America comes just after Iran marks the 45th anniversary of the 1979 US Embassy hostage crisis, and for many tensions between Tehran and Washington are as high as they were then.
While Israel continues its war targeting Hamas in the Gaza Strip and invades Lebanon in devastating attacks, Iran remains locked in the Middle East wars that are ravaging the region, leaving its allies (militant groups and fighters of its self-described “Axis of Resistance”) battered. against Hezbollah. At the same time, Iran appears to be still assessing the damage from Israel’s attacks on the Islamic Republic last Saturday in response to two Iranian ballistic missile attacks.

Iran’s currency, the rial, is near record lows against the dollar, driven by international sanctions imposed over Tehran’s nuclear program that aims to pump uranium ever closer to weapons-grade levels.

As a result of the mass demonstrations still ongoing in the country over the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022, women still openly oppose Iran’s mandatory hijab law in public spaces.