US keeps changing its position in Iran talks, Khamenei advisor says

The final death toll from the April 26 explosion at Iran's Rajaei port has been revised to 57, the head of Hormozgan's judiciary announced.

Mojtaba Ghahremani said the previously reported figure of 70 fatalities was based on initial estimates.

However, he added, further investigations, including family inquiries and forensic tests, revealed that some body parts collected from different parts of the blast site and stored in separate bags actually belonged to the same individuals.

This led to the adjustment in the casualty count.

According to the judiciary official, the confirmed total includes 46 identified bodies and 11 individuals still missing.

US President Donald Trump said his goal in talks with Iran is the “total dismantlement” of the country’s nuclear program but added that he is open to hearing arguments for allowing Iran to pursue civilian nuclear energy.

“I think that I would be open to hearing it, you know?” Trump said in an interview with NBC News. “Civilian energy, it’s called. But you know, civilian energy often leads to military wars. And we don’t want to have them have a nuclear weapon. It’s a very simple deal.”

Multiple videos circulating on social media appear to show explosions and fires Sunday in the Iranian cities of Mashhad and Qom.
Footage from Mashhad indicates a blast at what some reports describe as a factory site, though details remain unverified.
No official confirmation has been issued by Iranian authorities, and casualty figures are unclear. The cause of the apparent incidents is also not yet known. Iran International has not independently verified the videos.

Of those, 169 were for drug-related offences, 153 for murder, 12 for security-related charges, and nine for rape.

Among those executed in April on security-related charges, seven were accused of ties to dissident political or religious groups, and one was accused of espionage for Israel.

Only two of the April executions were officially announced by the Iranian authorities.

Iran accounted for 64% of all known global executions in 2024, with at least 972 people executed, according to Amnesty International.

On Saturday, over 300 global figures—including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, and human rights leaders— issued an urgent appeal for United Nations intervention to stop what they called a “campaign of politically motivated executions” in Iran.

Eighteen more victims of the Rajaei port explosion have been identified using DNA from relatives, said Reza Raeoufian, head of Iran’s genetic identity database.
He said 29 families came forward after the Legal Medicine Organization issued a call for DNA samples.
Samples from 11 families did not match any of the unidentified remains.
Authorities had previously identified 36 bodies through other scientific methods. The confirmed identities now stands at 54 out of 70 reported dead.