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At least five students at Tehran's Soore University have been barred from attending classes next semester without being given due process as authorities continue to crack down on any signs of dissent on campus.

Meta has removed accounts run by the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Instagram and Facebook for posts in support of the Palestinian group Hamas, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.

Iran does not want a direct war with Israel and the United States, experts say, highlighting that it would pose an existential threat to the Islamic republic. Tehran also has domestic considerations, experts say, including rising civil unrest and a deepening economic crisis.

Some politicians have called for the polls to be postponed, but the Election Commission of Pakistan says voting on Thursday will go on.

Supporters of Imran Khan say they will take evasive measures to cast votes backing the jailed politician in Pakistans Thursday election, after a major crackdown against his party.

Iran's special envoy to Afghanistan and the head of its embassy in Kabul says Tehran includes the war-torn country as part of is "axis of resistance" -- a loose-knit network of Iranian-backed proxies and militant groups that aid it in opposing the West, Arab foes, and primarily Israel.

The South Asian nation's poll has already been stained by allegations of pre-vote rigging, with Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party barred from contesting as a bloc, prevented from rallying and censored from the airwaves.

As the February 8 general elections draw closer, political workers, especially those affiliated with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and the Pakistan Peoples Party , are becoming increasingly...

An Iranian man is being held for allegedly murdering his 17-year-old son over what he called the teenager's  "feminine" behavior and makeup, in a case that has put the plight of  the Islamic nation's LGBT community in the spotlight once again.

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