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Iran is working to keep the threat of war away from its borders through diplomatic engagement, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said on Saturday, according to state media.

Most schools and kindergartens in Tehran remain at serious risk of fire, with only three out of more than 6,400 meeting minimum safety standards, a senior fire department official said on Saturday.

Israel’s Mossad has developed one of its largest intelligence operations focused on Iran and may even intercept landline communications, a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards navy said on Friday.

An Iranian lawmaker has proposed giving people additional credit in hiring and promotion for marriage and having children, saying family formation should be treated as a form of social contribution.

President Masoud Pezeshkian is grappling with mounting challenges as both backers and detractors in Tehran direct their criticism at him for failures rooted far above his station.

US sanctions are squeezing Iran’s economy but also enriching Tehran elites and deepening ties to China, Mideast and energy expert Gregory Brew told Iran International’s Eye for Iran podcast.

Iran has amputated the fingers of a prisoner on alleged theft charges despite the plaintiff’s pardon, Norway-based human rights group Hengaw reported on Friday.

A troika of European powers which triggered the reimposition of international sanctions on Iran last month called on Friday for Tehran to resume nuclear talks with Washington.

Tehran is shifting its sanctions-busting strategy away from crude oil toward more lucrative and less scrutinized petroleum products to boost revenues even as restrictions tighten.

The appointment of Iranian and Chinese diplomats to the UN Human Rights Council's advisory committee has stoked backlash from critics of the global body and Iran citing the two countries' harsh rights record.

Democratic Senator Cory Booker told Iran International in an interview that Tehran and its armed allies in the region posed an enduring threat to the newly clinched Gaza ceasefire and that Washington must remain vigilant.

An Iranian presidential aide on Friday ridiculed US President Donald Trump’s failed bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying his record of militarism and complicity in Israeli "genocide" in Gaza belied any claim to peace.

Iranian Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi praised the selection of 2025 winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, saying her courage and leadership serve as an inspiration for Iran’s pro-democracy movement.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned what it called the United States’ interventionist military activities in the Caribbean and Latin America, warning that recent strikes against Venezuela could endanger regional peace and stability.

More than $95 billion in foreign currency from Iran’s non-oil exports since 2018 has not been repatriated to the country, the Guards-linked Tasnim news agency reported on Friday, citing official trade data.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he resisted international pressure to halt the war in Gaza because Israel’s security depended on removing the threat from Iran and its armed allies.

At least 1,537 people were executed by hanging in Iran between October 2024 and October 2025, the highest figure in a decade, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday in its annual report marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Hydropower generation at the Amir Kabir Dam in Karaj, west of Tehran, has stopped after storage fell to 25 million cubic meters, while lawmakers warned that several provinces could soon face acute drinking water shortages.

The United Nations said on Thursday it could not confirm Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref’s statement that Secretary-General António Guterres told him the June war with Israel had ended efforts to topple the Islamic Republic.

Leaked documents and media investigations indicate a Berlin businesswoman allegedly ran oil sales for Iran from her apartment, with the proceeds apparently reaching Iran’s Ministry of Defense through a web of front companies operating in Asia.

A conservative Iranian lawmaker said parliament is reviewing an emergency motion to stop the implementation of Iran’s conditional approval to join a United Nations convention against terror financing, arguing it would expose the country’s sanction-busting networks.