Drug shortages push essential medicines in Iran to record prices

Key Points:

• Paris prosecutors reported no suspicious items following a heightened security alert linked to a foiled bomb attack near Bank of America's Paris offices, with suspects including one adult and three teenagers under investigation for terrorism-related charges.
• In Iran, five detainees, including Hatami, were sentenced to death following protests and a fire at a Basij military base, amid allegations of coerced confessions and limited legal counsel; human rights groups have condemned the rushed executions and called for halting death penalties.
• Scientists and students in the Middle East, especially in Iran, face significant barriers due to geopolitical conflicts, including restricted education, disrupted research, and limited mobility, with war and political unrest severely impacting scientific progress and international collaboration.
• Controversy erupted on Persian-language social media over accusations that photos of wounded civilians in Iran were staged, but fact-checkers and photographers refuted these claims, highlighting widespread distrust of official narratives amid wartime restrictions on independent reporting.