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A month-long protest by farmers in the central Iranian province of Isfahan over their water rights has once again brought the country’s growing water crisis into sharp focus.

A new Iran-backed militant group, Uli al-Baas, has emerged in Syria, positioning itself against the United States and its regional allies, Newsweek reported on Tuesday.

A blood-spattered banknote, a lone shoe, a handwritten note from prison, a last will and testament. For those whose voices and lives have been snuffed out forever, their possessions bear witness.

US President Donald Trump should clarify the objectives of his initiative to hold direct negotiations with Iran, Democratic Senator Chris Murphy told Iran International on Tuesday, questioning the veracity of the president's assertions.

My 23-year-old cousin, Ali, newly married and the father of a two-month-old baby, was killed in the Iran-Iraq war in 1985. From that moment, everything in my uncle’s family changed.

Iran’s Quds Force is overseeing the transfer of weapons, equipment and money to Hezbollah in Lebanon via maritime routes, a Western security source told Al Arabiya on Tuesday.

Iran insists that upcoming nuclear talks with the United States in Oman will be indirect, pushing back against US President Donald Trump’s announcement that direct negotiations will be underway.

New nuclear watchdog data indicates Iran has significantly expanded its uranium mining, suggesting much larger reserves than previously estimated, with plans to operate six more mines by the first quarter of 2024.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard naval forces have seized an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf over allegations of fuel smuggling, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.

Iran’s currency strengthened modestly on Tuesday, recovering from historic lows as anticipation grew over high-level indirect talks with the United States scheduled to take place this weekend in Oman.

Iran accounted for 64% of all known global executions in 2024, with at least 972 people executed, according to Amnesty International, in what the rights group says is the government's ongoing campaign of mass suppression of dissent.

Iran is recruiting Swedish teens as young as 14 on social media to carry out attacks from vandalism to bombings and contract murder against Israelis, an investigation by CNN has found.

The volume of coverage in Iranian newspapers about potential talks with the United States highlights the significance of the issue for both the public and the government.

Iranian exiled prince Reza Pahlavi on Monday argued against the use of US military force on Tehran, saying the Iranian people are the only ones who can overthrow the clerical establishment that toppled his father's rule in 1979.

Tehran and Washington have begun direct talks over Iran's nuclear program and will hold a "very big meeting" at a senior level on Saturday, US President Trump said in a surprise announcement on Monday.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will seek to persuade the Trump administration during a visit to Washington to push for the complete dismantling of Iran’s uranium enrichment program, diplomatic sources in the Middle East told Iran International.

The directors of acclaimed Iranian film My Favorite Cake have each been sentenced to 14 months behind bars on charges of propaganda against the Islamic Republic.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran remains committed to negotiations but rejected engaging under pressure, signaling no shift in its stance toward the United States as tensions have flared.

Iran's Press Supervisory Board issued a rare warning to the ultra-hardline Kayhan newspaper for threats of assassination against President Donald Trump for the 2020 killing of IRGC's Qasem Soleimani.

Satellite images show that US Navy aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson has entered the Indian Ocean via the Malacca Strait, marking a step up in the US military's presence in the region amid tensions with Iran, Newsweek reported on Monday.

Iran is waiting for a decision from the United States on whether to engage in indirect negotiations, foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday.