Iran

The U.S. Treasury Department is investigating the relationship between JPMorgan and a hedge fund said to be part of a network overseen by Hosein Shamkhani, the son of Ali Shamkhani, Bloomberg reported. Ali Shamkhani is a longtime close ally of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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With statistics indicating more of the country's skilled workforce is leaving or planning to leave, accelerating Iran’s longtime “brain drain,” Hosein Simayei Sarraf, the Iranian minister of science, has admitted that "25% of university professors" have emigrated in recent years. Iran’s government has cracked down on professors and students in universities who are suspected of supporting “Women, Life, Freedom” protests.

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