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Iranian Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi discharged from hospital and sent home, family say

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi has been discharged from a cardiac care unit and sent home, weeks after being transferred from prison to hospital following a suspected heart attack, a foundation run by her family said on Monday. Mohammadi, 54, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 while in prison for her campaign to advance women's rights and abolish the death penalty in Iran. She was sentenced to a new prison term, the foundation said in February this year, in the build-up to the US and Israeli war against Iran. She suffered a suspected heart attack in late March and was transferred to a hospital a month later, first in the northwest city of Zanjan, then, after a temporary suspension of her sentence on heavy bail, to Tehran's Pars Hospital, the foundation has said. "Her recovery demands strict medical supervision outside prison walls. Returning her to detention is a death sentence," the foundation quoted Mohammadi's daughter, Kiana Rahmani,...
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US Treasury allows sanctions waiver on Russian seaborne oil to lapse

The Trump administration on Saturday allowed a sanctions waiver to lapse that had previously allowed countries, including India, to buy Russian seaborne ​oil after a month-long extension aimed at easing oil supply shortages and ‌high prices due to Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had previously said he would not renew the general license allowing the purchase ​of Russian oil stored on tankers. As of early afternoon Washington ​time on Saturday, no renewal notice had been posted on the ⁠Treasury website. A Treasury spokesperson declined further comment. Two top Democratic US ​senators, Jeanne Shaheen and Elizabeth Warren, on Friday urged the Trump administration against renewing ​the waiver, arguing that it was providing revenue to Russia to aid its war in Ukraine, but there was no evidence it was bringing down fuel costs for American ​consumers. Also Read: Iran says ‘enemy’ weapons shipments will not cross Strait of Hormuz The prior extension was part of the Trump administration's effort to control ​global energy prices that had shot higher during the Iran war, including loans from the Strategic ‌Petroleum ⁠Reserve and a temporary waiver of a shipping rule known as the Jones Act. In addition, US President Donald Trump has said he supported pausing the 18.4-cent-a-gallon federal tax on gasoline. The moves have done little to calm US gasoline prices, which ​are currently at ​about $4.50 a gallon, ⁠the highest since 2022. Both domestic and international oil prices have hovered around or above $100 per barrel since the ​war began on February 28. Trump told reporters on Friday, ​returning from ⁠Beijing, that he had discussed with Chinese President Xi Jinping possibly lifting sanctions on Chinese companies that buy Iranian oil and will make a decision soon. India ⁠is ​the top consumer of Russian seaborne crude, and its ​purchases have been near record highs in April and May following previous sanctions waivers.

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