Punishing Israeli attacks over the summer exposed Tehran’s deep vulnerabilities, former State Department analyst Joshua Yaphe told Iran International, underscoring the nigh demise of a ruling generation whose outlook is stuck in a distant past.
Bootleg and counterfeit alcoholic drinks are the leading cause of deaths from poisoning in Iran, the Legal Medicine Organization announced on Saturday.
Iran continues to advance its nuclear program despite damage to several atomic facilities, Fadahossein Maleki, a member of parliament’s national security and foreign policy committee, said on Saturday.
Iran’s hardline daily Kayhan, run by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s representative, blamed government bodies for lax enforcement of hijab rules and called for stronger promotion of compulsory veiling in a commentary published on Saturday.
Exiled Iranian prince Reza Pahlavi said on Friday that Iran’s resources should be directed toward peace rather than conflict once the Islamic Republic ends, calling for a new framework he described as the “Cyrus Accords” to follow the 2020 Abraham Accords.
Iran, Russia and China have told the International Atomic Energy Agency that its monitoring and reporting linked to the 2015 nuclear deal should end following the expiry of the UN resolution that endorsed it, Iranian media said on Friday.
Iran is isolated and under pressure but its robust counterattacks in a 12-day war with Israel may embolden it to fight another more deadly conflict, author and former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren told Eye for Iran.
Eight hundred Iranian activists including political prisoners on Friday condemned as a "tool of repression" a steep uptick in Tehran's use of the death penalty after rights groups reported 280 hangings in Iran in October alone.
Many Iranians may have turned away from the ballot box in recent elections, but establishment factions are taking next year’s local polls as seriously as ever.
A court in the Iranian holy city of Qom sentenced a 26-year-old man to rewrite a religious book by hand as punishment for wearing shorts while skateboarding.
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) said on Friday Iran will remain on its list of high-risk countries for failing to fully accept the body's rules days after Iran's conditional accession to a UN convention against terror financing.
Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Manouchehr Fallah, a 42-year-old laborer from northern Iran who now faces imminent execution for allegedly detonating a small sound bomb outside a local courthouse.
Senior Iranian clerics denounced US President Donald Trump in Friday prayer sermons, accusing the United States of aggression and deceit as Tehran’s tone toward Washington hardens following a defiant speech by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Iran’s dam reserves have dropped by nearly a quarter from last year, official figures showed on Friday, as rainfall across much of the country fell close to zero and drought reshaped rural areas in the central province of Isfahan.
The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified about $9 billion in potential Iranian shadow banking activity that flowed through US correspondent accounts in 2024, the department said on Thursday.
Hardliners in Tehran have grown more vocal in their opposition to renewed diplomacy with Washington following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s defiant speech this week.
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s former national security chief, responded to the viral outrage over his daughter’s extravagant wedding with a cryptic but telling line.
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday urged Iran to abandon its revolutionary ambitions and end what he called destructive interference in neighboring Mideast states.
Iran's security chief Ali Larijani on Thursday launched into a withering critique of Donald Trump, likening the US President to Hitler and tarring him as a "mere businessman" whose Gaza peace summit Tehran gladly missed.
A US court will hold a sentencing hearing next week for two men convicted over an alleged Tehran-backed plot to kill Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad, she said on X on Thursday.
Iran’s Central Bank revoked Ayandeh Bank’s operating license on Thursday, dissolving one of the country’s largest lenders due to massive losses and chronic inefficiency in another sign of gathering economic storm clouds as sanctions bite.