The Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) recruited a Ugandan construction worker to surveil Israel's embassies in Uganda and Senegal, materials from a European intelligence source reviewed by Iran International indicate.
Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf is trying to turn Iran’s mounting economic turmoil into political capital, casting himself as a problem-solver while President Massoud Pezeshkian takes political blows for perceived inaction.
Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday accused the United States of bullying and aggression in its treatment of Tehran's Latin America ally Venezuela, as US military forces have gathered in the region.
At eleven o’clock each night, Tehran time, my studio, half a world away, seems to inherit the city’s fatigue. The callers gather like silhouettes behind a scrim of static.
Iranian authorities have imposed temporary bans on entering forest regions across the north and west of the country after wildfires damaged vast areas of woodland and pasture that officials now say are largely under control.
A blaze which had devastated a unique forest ecosystem in northern Iran has been brought under control after weeks of firefighting efforts, an environmental official said on Tuesday.
Iran's foreign minister on Wednesday pressed Germany to release any findings into German companies suspected of supplying materials for chemical weapons deployed by Saddam Hussein during the 1980s Iran-Iraq war.
An Iranian lawmaker said price-based water policies risk serving as fiscal stopgaps rather than tackling the country’s chronic shortages, urging non-price reforms and stricter controls on water-intensive industry placement before any tariff overhaul.
A Canadian federal judge has upheld an immigration officer’s decision to deny permanent residency to an Iranian asylum seeker because of his mandatory military service in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
President Masoud Pezeshkian has drawn fire over his decision to hand leadership over a crucial new energy body tasked with confronting an acute power crisis to a bureaucrat with no background in the sector.
A 70-year-old American-Iranian mother has been detained in Iran for two months, the State Department confirmed to Iran International, with her political dissident son saying the move aimed to silence him.
Iran's football authorities said on Tuesday they would boycott a draw for the US-hosted 2026 World Cup in Washington DC next week after visas for two top officials were rejected.
President Masoud Pezeshkian held a meeting with Iranian-born Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi during his trip to New York in September for the UN General Assembly, reform-leaning Tehran-based magazine Agahi-e No reported on Tuesday.
Iranian scientists linked to the country’s defense establishment are marketing radiation-detection instruments that they say contain UK-made components from a supplier based in south London borough of Croydon, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The International Atomic Energy Agency wants to fully reengage with Iran to restore access to its nuclear sites and verify the country’s enrichment activities, Director General Rafael Grossi said on Tuesday, after the UN watchdog’s board censured Tehran for restricting access.
A hardline Iranian lawmaker on Monday cited months-old comments by former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as a sign Moscow might be prepared to provide Iran with nuclear weapons.
Iranian crude held on tankers at sea has climbed to its highest level in about two and a half years, indicating softer buying from China even as Iran’s exports remain high, Bloomberg reported citing shipping data cited by market sources.
At least 110 women were killed in Iran between November 2024 and November 2025, a US-based human rights group said in a report marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
Several pro-government social media activists in Iran issued public apologies after a new transparency feature on X revealed that their accounts had been granted unrestricted internet access, a privilege reserved for only a select few by the authorities.
The Iran projected on social media these days—brunch parties, rooftop concerts, fashion shows—is real, but only as a tiny fragment of the country’s reality, where most ordinary people struggle to make ends meet.
This week marked the anniversary of a vast Berlin rally in October 2022 gathering tens of thousands filled in solidarity with Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement—a day that now feels almost impossibly distant.
Iran’s nuclear strategy has entered an ambiguous new phase, said veteran non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick, and Israel’s attacks in June could have left intact Tehran's ability to pivot toward a bomb if it so chose.
Iran has started burning mazut, a heavy fuel oil, at several power plants despite worsening air pollution, Fars News reported on Sunday, signalling a renewed reliance on high-sulphur feedstock as winter demand rises and smog intensifies.
