Two years after Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, Daniel Lifshitz believes the tragedy that shattered his family was aided by Iran but insists peace, not vengeance, must define the future.
Iran's foreign minister faced criticism this week for accusing Israel of paying social media users to advance its agenda, after his intervention into an online spat on Mideast influence operations led to scrutiny of Iran's own social media maneuvers.
Iranian traders, economists and digital market participants are alarmed by new state curbs on stablecoin holdings, telling Iran International the Central Bank’s decision will choke savings and drive capital offshore amid the historic devaluation of rial.
Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lied about Tehran's ambitions to put the United States in range of its missiles to dupe Washington into a new attack.
The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Aerospace Force said on Tuesday that Iranian forces had recovered from a 12-day war with Israel in June and were ready to respond to any fresh attack.
Prisoners in Tehran’s Evin prison blocked guards from transferring political inmate Ehsan Afrashteh for imminent execution on espionage charges, leading to a tense standoff inside the facility, former inmate and activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said on Tuesday.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Armed Forces General Staff have been negotiating with commercial partners in China to acquire missiles, drones and air defense systems as payment for oil shipments, an informed source told Iran International.
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ramped up pressure on the government to issue ration coupons for essential goods, invoking Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s warnings about the deterioration of the economy.
Germany’s foreign ministry told Iran International that the European Union’s reimposed sanctions on Iran include financial restrictions but still allow limited personal money transfers.
Iran said on Tuesday it would soon stage a joint naval exercise in the Caspian Sea with the other four littoral states, saying the sea was off-limits to outside powers.
The Sarab Niloufar spring, one of western Iran’s most iconic natural landmarks, has dried up, local environmental officials said, warning that years of groundwater depletion, unregulated farming and drought have destroyed the 25-meter-deep lake once covered in lotus flowers.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran is developing long-range ballistic missiles capable of reaching the United States, warning that Tehran’s expanding weapons program poses a global security threat.
Attempts by Afghan citizens to cross illegally into Iran have doubled over the past six months compared with the same period last year, a senior Iranian border commander said, as Tehran accelerates deportations and tightens control along its frontier with Afghanistan.
Iran said on Tuesday it had not received any formal conditions from the United States for negotiations, after a US newspaper report said Washington had set four requirements.
Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani, a tycoon once sentenced to death for corruption before receiving clemency, said that $2.3 billion from a Malaysian bank account tied to him was seized to help pay an international arbitration award against Iran’s National Oil Company (NIOC).
A senior Iranian official on Tuesday rejected the idea of limiting Iran’s missile program, repeating that Washington’s proposal to cut missile range was unacceptable.
Two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed and three others wounded in clashes with armed militants in the western city of Sarvabad in Kordestan province, the Guards said on Tuesday.
Iran’s economy is set to shrink this year and next as tighter sanctions, falling oil exports, and the aftermath of this year’s conflict weigh heavily on output, the World Bank said on Tuesday, even as it raised its overall growth forecast for the broader Middle East region.
Iran dismissed remarks by European Union and Gulf Cooperation Council officials who linked Tehran to regional instability and pressed it to act as a responsible power.
A senior conservative’s assertion that Iran’s Islamic system is “softly reforming” its stance on the hijab has triggered furious backlash from ultra-hardliners demanding full enforcement of the Hijab and Chastity Law suspended earlier this year.
Two years after the October 7 attack, the Middle East drifts between competing promises and stubborn realities: Khamenei’s dream of regional “de-Americanization” lies in ruins while Netanyahu’s “new order” remains elusive.