An explosion at a residential tower in western Tehran this week lit up Iranian social media with jokes faster than it triggered panic, with the official gas leak explanation convincing few, if any.
Serkan Eren, founder of the Stuttgart-based aid group STELP, has been prevented from leaving Iran since June 28 following a humanitarian mission in Tehran, German public broadcaster SWR reported.
The leader of Iran's Green Movement Mir-Hossein Mousavi who has been under house arrest since 2011 called for a referendum on a constitutional assembly, arguing that the current political system ruling Iran does not represent all Iranian people.
A senior Tehran official has alleged Israel deployed the occult and supernatural spirits in its war with Iran, prompting widespread mockery and a renewed debate over the role of jinn in Iranian political discourse.
A June 23 Iranian missile attack caused damage deep inside a US airbase in Qatar, the Pentagon said on Friday, confirming an Iran International report citing satellite imagery which indicated a cutting-edge communications hub within the facility was destroyed.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in an interview that Israel had rolled back Iran's nuclear program but implied the Jewish state had not yet finished its confrontation with the Islamic Republic.
Eyewitnesses and local residents say a powerful explosion at a residential tower in western Tehran was not caused by a gas leak, contradicting official claims made by Iranian authorities.
The Norwegian Nobel Committee on Friday called on Iranian authorities to stop threats against activist Narges Mohammadi, after she reported receiving death threats from the state.
Iran’s Supreme Leader faces a narrowing set of options after the collapse of his regional military strategy, former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said in a letter to Ali Khamenei.
Since Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s return to public view after a few weeks of silence, speculation has been swirling on Persian social media that he and his inner circle may punish those seen as prematurely positioning themselves for his succession.
Masoud Pezeshkian’s attempt to reach American audiences via Tucker Carlson sparked fierce backlash from Iranian hardliners, who accused him of flattering Donald Trump and downplaying religious fatwas calling for the US president’s execution.
Iran could resume cooperation with with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) if the UN watchdog ends its “double standards”, President Masoud Pezeshkian told the European Council president according to state media.
Several homes damaged by Israeli strikes in a brief conflict last month will be turned into museums, Tehran’s mayor Alireza Zakani said.
New data shows Iran’s foreign trade took a sharp hit during last month’s 12-day war with Israel, despite officials’ claims that it remained stable.
The UK Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) released a report on Thursday morning warning that Iran poses one of the gravest state-based threats to British national security, on par with adversaries like Russia and China.
An Iranian man wanted by the United States on terrorism charges worked for Swiss university lab which received state and European Union funding, the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung reported.
Iran will remain a threat to the United States as long as its current leaders stay in power, the Wall Street Journal wrote Tuesday, calling for the elimination of the country's Supreme Leader to prevent a far more dangerous conflict in the future.
Twenty-four Tehran lawmakers issued a public letter Wednesday criticizing President Masoud Pezeshkian over remarks made in a recent interview with American media, accusing him of undermining national unity and signaling weakness during wartime.
Iran did not move its highly enriched uranium stockpile before US airstrikes last month hit its key nuclear sites at Fordo, Natanz, and Isfahan, an Israeli official told Reuters.
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday laughed off a threat by an Iranian official suggesting he could be attacked with drones while sunning himself at his Florida mansion, telling a bemused press corps he had not sunbathed since childhood.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday said Tehran was implacably opposed to the the United States and Israel and could not be coaxed into a deal in which it abandons nuclear and military ambitions.