An Iranian-linked network used naval mortgages to disguise billions of dollars in oil shipments to China from Iran, Venezuela and Russia between 2019 and 2023, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Iran’s former intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi warned that domestic injustices and political exclusion risk eroding national cohesion, saying Iranians should not be treated as if unity is only demanded in wartime.
A warehouse disguised as an industrial facility in Shahin Shahr, Isfahan, is being used as a secret prison where hundreds of Iranian inmates are held in inhuman conditions under the management of a Revolutionary Guards cooperative, the Iran Human Rights Society said on Tuesday.
Iran’s state-affiliated Farhikhtegan newspaper warned on Wednesday that Tehran should prepare for “potential threats from its northern borders” following the US-brokered Armenia-Azerbaijan deal to develop the Zangezur corridor.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that both he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be considered “war heroes” for their roles in the attacks on Iran that he said destroyed its nuclear program.
Iran’s defense minister said on Wednesday that the country has developed a new generation of missiles with greater capabilities than those used in the recent 12-day conflict with Israel, and would deploy them in the event of further hostilities.
A reformist call to suspend uranium enrichment, release political prisoners, and curb the Revolutionary Guards’ power has intensified debate over Iran’s future at a moment of heightened pressure.
A section of Tehran’s largest cemetery holding executed dissidents from the early 1980s has been turned into a parking lot, Iranian officials have confirmed.
Even without open war, Israel and Iran are locked in a psychological battle—one marked by devastating Israeli intelligence strikes and more modest but highly publicized Iranian attempts to recruit and infiltrate the Jewish state.
Iran’s economy is reeling from an acute labor shortage following the mass deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants, with key industries such as construction and agriculture struggling to function.
An outlet affiliated with Iran’s Guards warned on Tuesday that recent calls by reformist politicians for sweeping changes in domestic and foreign policy echoed mistakes made by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) emerged from its 12-day confrontation with Israel in June bruised but more entrenched in the country’s power structure, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday.
Iran hanged a man in public on Tuesday after he and his wife were convicted of murdering a mother and her three children during a robbery in October 2024, judiciary's outlet Mizan reported.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that Tehran supported Armenia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity while voicing concern over foreign involvement near their shared border, as he met the Armenian premier in Yerevan.
Conservative MP Bob Blackman has accused Iran-linked groups of exploiting Britain’s charity sector to spread influence, writing in an op-ed after the cancellation of a children’s camp in Hertfordshire he said was run by supporters of Iran’s Supreme Leader.
A fierce battle has erupted inside Iran’s political establishment over the country’s future, with moderates urging sweeping reforms and hardliners branding their proposals a thinly veiled bid for regime change.
Iran plans to launch the first satellites in its new Soleimani constellation of narrowband satellites by the end of the Iranian year in March 2026, the head of the country’s space agency said.
Iran’s capital and several provinces will see a full-day closure of government offices due to a worsening electricity crisis, officials said Monday.
A court in Tehran has sentenced women’s rights defender Hasti Amiri to three years in prison on charges that include propaganda against the state and appearing unveiled in public, she said in a post on Instagram.
The state funeral of renowned miniature artist and "national treasure" Mahmoud Farshchian drew large crowds in Isfahan on Monday, reigniting heated debates on Persian social media over the notion of “state-affiliated artists.”
Yemen’s foreign minister accused Iran on Sunday of driving the Houthi movement to reject peace initiatives and prolong the country’s decade-long conflict, Asharq al-Awsat reported.