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According to HRANA, the marriage ceremony of Alireza Sepahi, a protester sentenced to death in the “Alikhani Square” case in Isfahan, and Mahshad Keshani, an imprisoned student, was performed by telephone on Sunday, 4 October. The couple are asking for an in-person meeting before Sepahi's possible execution.
On the first Mehregan since the death of Ali Khamenei, Prince Reza Pahlavi dedicated the festival to the memory of the fallen of the January uprising and asked his compatriots to visit their families.
Senior US security officials discussed continuing the war with the Islamic Republic at Camp David, as the carrier Theodore Roosevelt set off for the Middle East. A source in Tehran says the government's assessment is that the war will resume.
The Pezeshkian government said Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad resigned for "personal" reasons, but his departure comes as oil exports have stopped under the US naval blockade and pressure mounts on the network of oil-sales middlemen. Hamid Bord has been named acting oil minister.
Media inside Iran reported that the final stages of the demolition of Rajaei Shahr (Gohardasht) prison in Karaj were carried out on Sunday, 4 October. Human rights activists say that by razing the prison, the Islamic Republic is destroying evidence of the mass executions of 1988.
As the academic year begins, the Islamic Republic has stepped up pressure on universities: K. N. Toosi students staged a sit-in on Sunday, 4 October, in protest at disciplinary rulings, and 10 students at Ferdowsi University of Mashhad were punished for taking part in the December–January uprising.
Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi ordered an investigation after images emerged of Hashd al-Shaabi vehicles driving over US and Israeli flags during a “Sovereignty Day” parade in Baghdad, and Iraqi officials announced that those responsible had been arrested.
The first flight by an Iranian airline landed at Najaf airport on Sunday, 4 October; the United States has allowed Iraq to receive 40 Iranian flights a day to the city, with the exception of Mahan Air.
Sanandaj's Revolutionary Court has sentenced Marzieh Moradveisi, a dismissed teacher and former political prisoner, and civil activist Sohrab Bahrami to suspended prison terms and fines. Meanwhile, Bayan Salehian, a medical specialist and Kurdish woman activist, has been transferred to Urmia Central Prison after her arrest in the city.
Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for the Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry, said on Sunday, 4 October, that the US proposals remain focused on the nuclear file, but that Tehran's focus at this stage is the Strait of Hormuz and it has not entered nuclear talks with Washington.
Groups of retirees and pensioners rallied in several Iranian cities on Sunday, 4 October, in protest against rising prices and low pensions, and some of them called for the release of political prisoners and jailed protesters.
Yemeni government forces, backed by air support from the Saudi-led coalition, announced on Monday, 5 October, that they had retaken the strategic Red Sea port of Mokha from the Islamic Republic-backed Houthis and advanced around the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
Two Iranian men in Britain have been charged with preparing an act of terrorism. According to the prosecutor, acting on the orders of a person believed to be in Iran, they had scouted Heaton Park synagogue and the Manchester Jewish Museum for an attack with a homemade chlorine bomb.
Mohammad Akraminia, spokesman for the Islamic Republic's Army, said on Sunday, 4 October, that the army is increasing the range and speed of all its missiles. He cited as the reason the deployment of US forces up to 1,000 kilometres from Iran's coast.
Mohammad Sharifi-Moghaddam, secretary-general of the Nurses' House, says that at the current dollar rate nurses' average pay has fallen to about $100 a month, around 70,000 nurses are staying at home and a wave of resignations in the profession is continuing.
The US State Department said two members of the Islamic Republic's delegation who had stayed in New York after the end of the UN General Assembly have been expelled from the country. The Islamic Republic's mission to the UN has denied the expulsion claim.
The speaker of the Islamic Republic's parliament said on Sunday that the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until Tehran's seven conditions are met, and claimed that Washington has sent proposals through a mediator. Donald Trump, for his part, said Iran's fate will be decided either the easy way or the hard way.
The Islamic Republic's Ministry of Intelligence claims to have dismantled four sabotage networks in Sirjan and arrested 31 people. It has accused those arrested of taking part in the January uprising and preparing for new unrest.
As the war in Yemen widens, the Islamic Republic-backed Houthis said they had carried out a missile and drone attack on Aramco facilities in Riyadh. The United Arab Emirates also cancelled all flights by Iranian airlines until further notice.
The Islamic Republic's judiciary has announced the execution of another protester. Human rights organisations say protest-related executions are carried out after hasty trials and on the basis of forced confessions.
Exchange rates on Tehran's open market broke records again on Sunday, 4 October: the dollar passed 272,000 tomans and the euro 307,000 tomans, and the Emami gold coin reached about 275 million tomans, while Iran's oil exports have effectively come to a standstill.
