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Amir Mousawi, a former Iranian diplomat and defense ministry adviser whose abduction in Egypt had earlier been confirmed by Tehran, wrote on X that he has returned to Iraq.

An Iranian court has ordered six Baha'i women in the western city of Hamedan to serve a combined 39 years in prison on charges linked to their religious activity, a US-based rights group reported on Monday.

Former Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday called for direct talks with the United States and proposed opening stand-alone US and Iranian interest sections, saying Donald Trump could frame such a move as a legacy achievement.

US President Donald Trump on Monday torched a Democratic Senator who last week said the notion that rights were derived from the creator and not laws was troubling and in line with theocratic thinking in Iran.

Departures from Iran are on the rise since a 12-day war with Israel in June as heightened surveillance and moribund prospects at home push some households to liquidate assets and leave.

A farmer hanged himself on Monday outside the local agriculture department headquarters in Kahnuj in southeastern Iran in protest over mounting economic pressures, local rights group Haalvsh reported.

Iran has taken steps toward beginning negotiations with the United States in parallel with talks with the UN nuclear watchdog, the state-linked daily Farhikhtegan reported on Monday.

Iran’s suspension of cooperation under a new domestic law cannot override its binding international commitments, IAEA chief Rafael Grossi told governors on Monday, opening the agency’s quarterly meeting in Vienna.

Canada-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion on Sunday urged Iranians worldwide to take part in protests marking the third anniversary of the death of Mahsa (Jina) Amini, whose killing in police custody in 2022 sparked the Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.

Iran’s foreign ministry said Monday it will never negotiate on its defense capabilities, even as a third round of talks with the International Atomic Energy Agency concluded and further exchanges with the European Union over snapback remain under review.

US counter-narcotics operations off Venezuela are part of a broader drive to dismantle an Iran- and Hezbollah-linked drug-finance network, officials told Fox News Digital on Sunday.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran is committed to Islamic unity and has no disputes with other Muslim nations, urging countries in the region to resist efforts by outside powers to sow division.

Chicken has become a measure of the Islamic Republic’s failure to stabilize basic goods, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Sunday, amid reports of a sharp drop in average meat consumption, with some citizens eating none at all.

Iran plans to launch four satellites by the end of the Iranian year in mid-March 2026 and open its new spaceport in its southeastern city of Chabahar, the head of the country’s space agency said on Sunday.

Iran's Supreme Leader on Sunday warned against what he called an enemy plot to impose a harmful “no war, no peace” situation on Iran, over two months after a US-brokered ceasefire halted Israeli attacks but left public fears of renewed conflict.

A drone fired by Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthi rebels struck the arrivals hall of Israel’s Ramon International Airport near the southern city of Eilat on Sunday, injuring one person and forcing a two-hour suspension of flights, Israeli authorities said.

Australia’s decision to expel the Islamic Republic's ambassador to Canberra was an unjustified move to please Israel, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman told Australian broadcaster Channel 9, blaming what he called a Mossad plot.

Iran’s parliament security and foreign policy committee has approved a bill to strengthen the armed forces against Israel, mandating billions in funding from oil revenues, frozen foreign assets and air transit fees, its spokesperson said on Sunday.

Issuing motorcycle licenses to women requires changes to regulations and law, Iran’s traffic police chief said on Sunday, adding the force is waiting for a formal government order before taking action.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Venezuelan counterpart YvánGil Pinto discussed bilateral ties and recent US military activity in the Caribbean in a phone call, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.

Israel’s former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen said he had drawn up plans to assassinate Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, but the idea was abandoned over fears it would trigger a war with Tehran. Soleimani was later killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in 2020.