US President Donald Trump on Wednesday laughed off a threat by an Iranian official suggesting he could be attacked with drones while sunning himself at his Florida mansion, telling a bemused press corps he had not sunbathed since childhood.
When Masoud Pezeshkian was elected Iran’s president last July, jokes circulated that he wouldn’t last six months. He did, but the road ahead looks even more rocky now than it did then.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Tehran was implacably opposed to the the United States and Israel and could not be coaxed into a deal in which it abandons nuclear and military ambitions.
The US President and Secretary of Defense said the military operation targeting three nuclear sites in Iran sent a strong message to the world, including US adversaries.
An Iranian man wanted by the United States on terrorism charges worked for Swiss university lab which received state and European Union funding, the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported.
The US Treasury on Wednesday announced a new round of Iran-related sanctions targeting companies from China to the United Arab Emirates over ties to previously sanctioned Iranian firms.
A proposed Iranian law expanding espionage and national security charges and criminalizing ties with foreign entities has been halted for revision following a review by the country’s top oversight body.
A media outlet affiliated with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) has openly called for the mass execution of perceived enemies of the state, invoking the precedent of mass killings carried out in 1988 following a decree by then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini.
At least 95 Iranian journalists and media organizations faced 110 judicial and security actions between January and June 2025, according to the Defending Free Flow of Information Organization (DeFFI).
Tucker Carlson's interview with Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian was all Tehran could wish for, experts told Iran International: a global stage, no pushback, and a direct line to Donald Trump’s base.
This is Tehran, two weeks after the ceasefire with Israel. Shops are open, people are out, the air is as polluted as ever—and the dread that began last month still hasn’t lifted.
Tehran’s patriotic messaging in the wake of the war with Israel reached new heights when Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, in his first public appearance since the ceasefire, requested that a patriotic song be sung at the year’s flagship religious ceremony.
Two seamen are believed to have been killed and another two missing after an attack on a Greek-managed cargo ship off the coast of Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthis, according to Reuters.
In the last five years, Iran has stepped up its involvement in global terrorism, according to new research by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think-tank.
The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Monday that only a negotiated solution can end the international standoff over Iran's nuclear program, as the diplomatic outlook following a 12-day war remains unclear.
A nationwide internet outage likely imposed by the Tehran beginning just after midnight on July 6 has deepened concerns among a weary public over the already parlous state of the economy and access to information.
A widespread internet blackout hit Iran on Saturday night, disrupting global access for millions once more, the first such shutdown since mass outages across the country during the conflict with Israel.
Widespread blackouts have returned to Iranian homes and public facilities, days after the war with Israel ended, exposing the fragility of the country’s power infrastructure, which had briefly held up while much of the country was shut down.
With the fighting paused, many in Tehran are taking stock of what the Iran-Israel conflict revealed, and Russia’s muted response is coming under growing scrutiny, especially in light of Moscow’s expanding defense ties with countries like India.
Former US national security advisor and veteran Iran hawk John Bolton hopes a White House meeting between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will pave the way for Tehran's downfall.
