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21 Feb 2026, 16:46

🔸The New York Times, amid rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, reported that Pentagon officials announced hundreds of American soldiers have been evacuated from the Al Udeid base in Qatar. While the U.S. military presence in the Middle East has significantly increased, the newspaper also reported that some American forces have been withdrawn from bases in Bahrain, which is home to the U.S. Fifth Fleet. Iranian officials have threatened to target U.S. bases in the region if attacks by the U.S. commence. Hours later, the U.S. President responded to a reporter's question by stating that he is considering limited strikes against Iran.
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🔸On Saturday, February 22, 2025, the Tehran Stock Exchange experienced one of its heaviest declines in recent months, with the overall index dropping nearly 100,000 points, losing about 2.5% of its value. Domestic media outlets such as "Etemad Online" and "Iran Watch" referred to the market trend on Saturday with titles like "Earthquake in Tehran's Stock Market" and "Bloody Day for the Stock Market."
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Simultaneously with the significant drop in the Tehran Stock Exchange on Saturday, the Tasnim news agency and the Entekhab website reported that the price of each U.S. dollar in the free market exceeded 164,600 tomans.

🔸As tensions between the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran escalate, Serbia and Sweden have also urged their citizens to leave Iran. A day earlier, the German Foreign Ministry once again urged all German citizens to leave Iran due to the risk of a potential U.S. attack. According to reports, the number of registered German citizens in Iran is in the hundreds.
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🔸Mohammad Baqer Abdollahi, the CEO of the Eshragh Pharmacists Cooperative in Iran, expressed concern over the significant increase in drug prices in the country, "especially in recent weeks," stating that "the majority of people" can no longer afford the medications they need. He noted that compared to the beginning of the current year, 1404, "some medications" have seen price increases of 200 to 300 percent.
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Reza Salehi Amiri, the Minister of Cultural Heritage, Tourism, and Handicrafts, stated that with the positive opinion of medical professionals and the government's decision, Nowruz 1405 has been named "Nowruz of Unity and Sympathy to Overcome Mourning." He added, "In Nowruz of Unity and Sympathy, we must move beyond all margins." Salehi Amiri further stated, "This year, our religious and national identity has come together, and the simultaneous occurrence of the two holidays, Nowruz and Eid al-Fitr, will be a manifestation and symbol of our Iranian-Islamic culture."
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🔸Hezbollah confirmed on Saturday that eight of its members, including a commander named Hussein Mohammad Yaghi, known as Abu Ali Sadik, were killed in Friday's attacks in the Bekaa region. The Israeli army also announced in a separate statement on Saturday that it had killed several members of the "Hezbollah Missile Unit" in three different command centers. According to this army, these individuals were "working to expedite the readiness process and strengthen Hezbollah's military capabilities and were planning attacks against Israel."
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🔸In France, nine people were arrested in connection with the murder of a far-right nationalist student, reportedly carried out by suspected activists from the far-left movement. Among those arrested is a parliamentary assistant to one of the representatives of the radical left party "France Insoumise." Quentin Dranc, a 23-year-old mathematics student, died on Saturday in the hospital; two days after being attacked by a group of masked youths in Lyon, where he was severely beaten in the head and kicked by the assailants.
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🔸Hungary announced that it would oppose the European Union's 90 billion euro loan to Ukraine until the transfer of Russian oil through the "Druzhba" pipeline to this country is resumed.
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