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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he would stop Iran from strangling the Jewish state with a "noose of terror."

Speaking at the weekly cabinet meeting, he said the countrys security personnel are working on this matter around the clock and we will continue to act both offensively and defensively against the aggression of Iran and its terrorist satellites.

The Israeli Prime Minister's statements about the aggressions of the Islamic Republic come at a time when Irans foreign minister toured Lebanons border with Israel Friday during a visit to the Arab nation, and was documented looking out at the Jewish state his regime regards as an archenemy.

After meeting with Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian took the tour along with several Lebanese parliamentarians and members of the Iranian-backed terror group.

Positive developments in the region will lead to the collapse of the Zionist entity, he said during his tour.

Mehr state news agency called Amir-Abdollahian's presence at the Israel-Lebanon border a "response" to the move by Israel's foreign minister, who visited Iran's borders during the opening of the country's embassy in Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan.

Meanwhile, an Israeli air attack near the city of Homs hit Iranian targets early Saturday, while Syrian state media reported that some missiles were intercepted.

Meanwhile, Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, based in the United Kingdom, reported that Israeli missiles fired from warplanes destroyed a Hezbollah ammunition depot near Homs airport.

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Irans parliament voted to dismiss the minister of Industry, Mines and Trade Sunday.

Amid allegations of mismanagement and widespread dissatisfaction with rising prices, especially in the car market, Reza Fatemi Amin was forced from his position, with 162 of the 272 lawmakers present voting to oust him. There are 290 seats in parliament.

Last year, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say in major policies, criticized the high prices and low quality of home-made products, including cars.

Fatemi Amin survived an earlier impeachment by the same chamber six months ago.

During Sundays vote, opponents criticized Fatemi Amin for "skyrocketing prices of automobiles and the rising costs of industrial production and considered him unqualified to continue in his position.

Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi defended Fatemi Amin and urged lawmakers to reinstate the minister, saying, "The point is that stability in the ministry is important."

Fatemi Amin defended his job, saying, "The automobile industry is based on assembly and domestication, so it has problems with the ups and downs of sanctions."

Iran's economy has been battered by Western sanctions, rampant inflation and record depreciation of the rial against the dollar since 2018 when then-President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from a landmark nuclear deal with Tehran and reimposed severe sanctions.

In 2015, the rial was trading at 32,000 to the U.S. dollar when the country signed the nuclear accord, which lifted international sanctions in return for strict limits on, and surveillance of, its nuclear activities. Because of the breadth of global sanctions, the rial is trading at 545,000 to the U.S. dollar.

Some material for this report came from Agence France-Presse and The Associated Press.

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Irans rial hit its lowest point in one month on Monday, falling by 10 percent against the US dollar, as sanctions remain in place and the economy is in crisis.

The rial hit a low of 550,000 against the US dollar for the first time since April 1, when an apparent intervention by the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) had brought the rate down to around 500,000 rial for each dollar.

In early 2018, the rial was trading at around 40,000 when former US President Donald Trump decided to pull out of the JCPOA nuclear agreement and impose crippling sanctions on Iran. Since then, the rial has fallen by almost 14-fold.

A series of worker strikes have been underway since April 22, affecting energy, petrochemical, steel and other sectors, as the rial falls and inflation spikes.

Monthly salaries for ordinary workers that were equivalent to $220 one year ago are now around $120 in purchasing power.

An Iranian official said Sunday that workers pay covers expenses for just nine days of the month for a small family.

Negotiations in 2021 and 2022 to reach a new nuclear agreement reached a deadline last September, prompting markets to sell off rials. Since then, the currency has lost half its value.

In addition to the nuclear issue, Irans supply of weapons to Russia and its brutal and deadly crackdown on anti-government protesters in recent months have made further talks more difficult as the United States demands Iranian policy changes at multiple levels.

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Iran International can reveal that political prisoners in Ward 15 of Karaj Central Prison are in dire conditions.

Insiders say political prisoners are being deprived of the minimum rights and have not been able to contact their families for two weeks.

In addition, prisoners do not have beds to sleep in and no place to heat their food. The inmates have access to just one telephone line which is tied up most of the time.

Informed sources say there is no canteen for them to buy snacks or essential items.

The prison food is of a very low quality and as a result inmates suffered stomachache and many other problems, the source said.

Sources say there are no training courses and gyms, and the detainees routinely take pills to fall asleep.

Political prisoners have been threatened that if they protest, they will be sent to other wards where prisoners of crimes related to drugs, robbery, or murder are locked up. All phone conversations are also being tapped to exert more pressure.

The reason for these pressure tactics can be of a deterrent nature, to intimidate activists and would be protesters from engaging in anti-regime activities. It could also have coercive purpose to extract confessions or cooperation from prisoners.

Prison authorities refuse to provide medicine and proper treatment to political prisoners and seek to make the conditions more difficult by creating psychological stress.

They also harass the political prisoners of Ward 15 refusing to allow them to have face-to-face visits, and the inmates can visit their families every two to three months.

Some of the prisoners in the ward are those arrested in the case of the killing of Basij agent Ruhollah Ajamian in November.

Some prisoners arrested in the case of the killing of Basij agent Ruhollah Ajamian

Ruhollah Ajamian was killed in Karaj, near Tehran, a group of men the regime called rioters. The member of the Basij militia of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) was stabbed, beaten, and stripped naked by a group of men and died of his injuries later.

The Islamic Republic has already executed Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Mohammad Hossein over Ajamians death.

14 protesters were also jailedin connection with the killing, with five of them receiving long-term prison terms of 10 and 15 years earlier this month.

Jurists and human rights activists have described the trials as unfair and questioned the verdicts.

The judiciary of Alborz provinceclaimed that the charges leading to the verdict were not "intentional murder" but "corruption of the earth" and "moharebeh", or waging war against God.

Among the defendants, Hamid Qarahasanlou, who was previously sentenced to death, received the longest prison term and was given 15 years in prison. He and his wife Farzaneh Qarahasanlou are set to serve their sentence in the religious city of Mashhad in the northeast.

These are only some of the lengthy sentences handed down by the Iranian regime to countless protesters in the widespread demonstrations that followed the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini last September.

Protests broke out in scores of cities across Iran, with crowds demanding justice for Mahsa and calling for an end to the regimes oppressive policies.

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With no prospect of controlling Irans economic crisis, even high-ranking clerics representing Supreme the Leader have begun speaking out and demanding solutions.

Friday Prayers Imams in some major cities expressed their unhappiness over the government's performance, similar to criticism by many conservatives who backed President Ebrahim Raisis election less than two years ago.

Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, the Friday Prayers Imam of Qom, the venue of the country's most important seminary said in his sermon on Friday: "State officials spend most of their time in meetings with unknown results." He suggested that "Decisions made in those meetings should be followed up seriously by executive officials."

Referring to the declining value of Irans currency, he said, "The government's monetary policies should not change constantly. Some investors say they cannot count on the government's monetary regulations even for one day as things might change."

Hashem Hosseini Bushehri, the Friday Prayers Imam of Qom

Bushehri also echoed Ali Khameneis recent remarks criticizing discord among the executive, legislative and judiciary bodies.

Friday Prayer Imams are appointees of the Supreme Leader and often reinforce his messages. Their demand for economic improvement can be seen as a sign that Khameneis patience is running out, as high inflation can trigger more protests.

Without mentioning the ongoing strikes and protests in the country's industrial centers, Bushehri called on the government on the occasion of Labor Day to find legal ways to help Iranian workers.

While inflation has topped 50 percent and the rial has halved in value, workers monthly salaries hover around $120-150. In the past ten days workers at more than 100 companies and plants went on strike.

Bushehri also called for "a competitive parliamentary election, so that the enemies will not be able to talk sarcastically about low turnout in Iranian elections."

The temporary Friday Prayers Imam of Mashhad, another religious city in Iran, Mohammad Bagher Farzaneh, who was standing in for the firebrand cleric Ahmad Alamolhoda criticized the government for the worsening situation and said: "Economic problems cannot be concealed."

The temporary Friday Prayers Imam of Mashhad, Mohammad Bagher Farzaneh

He said more than 51 percent of Iranians in big cities do not own a home and inflation has impoverished ordinary people.

However, also echoing Khamenei he said that the "economic problems can be solved if officials stand united, obey the Supreme Leader and have sympathy for each other." He added that it was a shame that 43 years after the Islamic revolution, the country's leader has to point out discords among the heads of the three powers of the government.

Recently, Ghasem Saedi, a senior lawmaker from Khouzestan Province had said that "The government has ruined the country's economic security," and warned the government that it cannot protect its credibility by chanting meaningless slogans.

In another part of his sermons, Farzaneh said: "Today, no one can claim that the United States does not have any infiltrators in Iran." He said that infiltrators are the main element behind the discord among the country's officials, without saying which high-ranking official in the government is a US infiltrator.

Meanwhile, the Friday Prayer Imam of Tehran, Hassan Aboutorabi-Fard, the only Imam with some executive experience under former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, also criticized the government for making economic decisions without thinking about the consequences and without considering the financial resources needed for implementing those decisions.

Aboutorabi-Fard warned the country's "rulers and managers" that their performance will inevitably affect all aspects of peoples life.

The Friday Prayers of Tehran on April 28, 2023

However, it was interesting that he also warned the government that measures to enforce hijab should be taken in a way to boost national unity rather than creating discord among the people and the government.

In recent weeks, as more women have defied the regimes dress code and appear in public without a veil, hardliners in the government have been pushing for more enforcement measures.

Already, harsh policies against women triggered major nationwide protests leading to more than 500 deaths.

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