Warnings from senior Iranian officials about the cost of prolonging the war are increasingly converging with Washington’s central pressure point: whether Iran can economically sustain the conflict.

The Islamic Republic may want the world to forget what happened in January, but the bodies of those who survived make that difficult.

Iranian crude loadings have fallen to about one-seventh of their pre-war level under the US naval blockade, while Chinese receipts of Iranian oil and fuel exports have also dropped sharply, tanker-tracking data reviewed by Iran International shows.

Yemen’s Houthis have become a more effective ally for Iran than Hezbollah, using Iranian support and their strategic Red Sea position to pursue both Tehran’s interests and their own agenda, Yemen analyst Mohammad al-Basha told Iran International.

Ghazal Marzban, a transgender woman held in Tehran’s Evin prison, says she was raped after being detained by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry in 2023 and later threatened into silence, according to a letter published by the HRANA human rights news agency.

A gasoline policy survey by Iran’s energy optimization chief has reignited debate over how the Pezeshkian administration should tackle the country’s fuel deficit without triggering another politically dangerous price shock.

The expiry of a 25-year gas contract has exposed a shift in the Iran-Turkey energy relationship, with Ankara now enjoying more supply options while Tehran risks losing one of its most dependable export markets.

The men who spent the war demanding control of the Strait of Hormuz have returned to demanding control of women's clothing. As the fighting subsides, Iran's hardliners are pressing to revive a hijab law the state itself suspended for fear of new protests.

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of 24-year-old political prisoner Arghavan Fallahi, who was convicted of “baghi,” or armed rebellion, the US-based HRANA rights group reported on Friday.

A campaign by pro-establishment religious groups in Iran is asking people to help fund the ritual slaughter of 10,000 sheep as a religious offering for Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei’s health, with each animal priced at 250 million rials, or about $132.

Days before he was killed, Ali Khamenei gave a poem to a translator, a senior cleric says. Iranian outlets published it as his prophecy of his own martyrdom. Then readers ran down the first letters: I am Ali Khamenei, born of Satan.

A 19-year-old British man pleaded guilty Friday to an arson offence over an April attack on offices linked to Iran International in northwest London, while a teenage co-defendant denied the more serious charge of arson being reckless as to whether life was endangered.

Messages sent to Iran International after the death of its 37-year-old presenter Farahnaz Espad have mixed personal tributes with reflections on exile, repression and hopes for political change among Iranians at home and abroad.

Some luxury apartments in northern Tehran are being advertised above the price of central Munich or Sydney: 25 billion rials, about $13,228, per square meter, according to Farhikhtegan newspaper, which examined the listings.

Iranian men conscripted into the Revolutionary Guards for their compulsory military service fear they and their families could lose the right to remain in Canada, after letters warned the mandatory stint may amount to membership in a terrorist organization.

Officials of Iran's Basij militia can be heard on a leaked recording weighing the risk of a new round of protests and the danger that members will be identified online, a rare glimpse of the anxiety inside the force the state sends against demonstrators.