Tuesday’s strike on the leadership of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas in Doha aims to intimidate Tehran but also sows unease among Arab states, Israeli and American experts told Iran International.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s top security official, reacted to Israel’s strike on Qatar with a pointed message in Arabic on social media, casting the attack as a signal of Israel’s future ambitions for regional dominance.
China and Russia welcomed Iran’s deal with the UN nuclear watchdog to resume inspections, with Beijing calling it a positive step to ease tensions over Tehran’s nuclear program and Moscow urging European powers to halt their move to reimpose UN sanctions.
Families in Iran are voicing growing concerns over government policies that impose mandatory tuition fees even for public schools, making it increasingly difficult for parents to afford education for their children.
Pressure on President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government continues to mount despite explicit support from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who this week praised the president and his cabinet during a meeting in Tehran.
An Israeli-Russian academic abducted and held hostage by an Iran-backed militia in Iraq has been released, US President Donald Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday.
The US State Department, in a rare comment on Iran’s domestic financial policy, criticized a new law imposing capital gains taxes on real estate, vehicles, foreign currency, precious metals and cryptocurrencies, saying it would add to citizens’ hardships.
The UN nuclear watchdog says it has reached an agreement with Iran on the practical modalities to resume inspection activities in Iran, which were halted following the Israeli and US airstrikes on Iranian atomic facilities in June.
The so-called “Look East” strategy has become the latest point of contention in Tehran's fractious politics, with conservatives presenting it as a shield against Western isolation and reformists warning it risks overreliance on unreliable partners.
Facing a grinding crisis and mounting calls at home to change course before disaster strikes, Iran’s rulers still speak in a language that suggests they prefer the risks of war to the uncertainties of reform.
Iran on Tuesday condemned an Israeli attack on Hamas leaders in the Qatari capital Doha, calling the bombing of the Tehran-backed group's negotiating team a dangerous escalation to simmering Middle East tensions.
Iran has set up a suicide-prevention task force, the vice president for women and family affairs said on Monday, as the government prepares a national plan after rising cases among students and health workers.
Iran’s government said on Tuesday it does not currently have access to its stockpiles of enriched uranium following June’s 12-day war that devastated the country’s nuclear facilities, as its foreign minister traveled to Egypt for talks with the UN nuclear watchdog.
Nearly 22,000 Iranian gas centrifuges at Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan were knocked out in June strikes, leaving “no identifiable route” to weapon-grade output at those plants, the Institute for Science and International Security said citing the UN nuclear watchdog’s latest reports.
Iranian border guards opened fire on a group of Afghan migrants crossing into Sistan-Baluchestan province, killing six people and wounding five others, the Baluch rights group Haalvsh reported on Tuesday.
Twenty-four Iranian labor, social and support organizations said in a joint statement on Monday that the Woman, Life, Freedom movement sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in 2022 would not be silenced, pledging to continue their struggle for political and social change.
Hamzeh Safavi, son of Yahya Rahim-Safavi, a senior military adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said Iran must be prepared for the possibility that Israel could attempt to assassinate the country’s top leader.
Twenty-one official bodies were found responsible for the April explosion at Shahid Rajaee port, southern Iran, that killed 58 people and injured more than 1,500, Iran’s judiciary said on Monday.
South Korea, the rotating president of the United Nations Security Council this month, has finalized a draft resolution that would permanently lift international sanctions on Iran but is unlikely to be adopted, Reuters reported on Monday citing diplomats.
Iran’s Supreme Leader has sought Qatar’s mediation with the West as Tehran signals rare flexibility on its enriched uranium as part of efforts to avert UN sanctions snapback, multiple sources told Iran International.
A proposal to return control of Iran’s nuclear negotiations to the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) has highlighted the growing influence of its new chief, Ali Larijani—and a potential readjustment of Tehran’s negotiation strategy as UN sanctions loom.