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Iranian authorities say two girls were detained by police, after they recorded themselves dancing at a Tehran monument honoring those who died in the Iran-Iraq war.

Ships in the northern Persian Gulf have reported receiving repeated radio communications, including instructions to alter their course, which the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) says could be linked to an ongoing Iranian military exercise.

The resignation of Israel’s military chief has drawn reactions from senior leaders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), who framed it as a weakening of the Israeli government after October 7.

As Iran's fiscal year draws to an end in March, the government and parliament grapple with the challenge of raising wages in line with an inflation rate of 40% that has pushed millions of workers to poverty.

The European Parliament adopted a resolution on Thursday condemning what it called Iran's systematic human rights abuses, highlighting the use of the death penalty against Kurdish activists Pakhshan Azizi and Varisheh Moradi.

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he hoped a deal over Iran's nuclear program would make it so that the United States did not have to support an Israeli attack on Iran.

A senior Iranian official has demanded the immediate arrest of Mohammad Javad Zarif, strategic deputy to President Masoud Pezeshkian, over his remarks on the Islamic headscarf hijab made at the Davos Economic Forum.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian on Thursday said the county's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has allowed engaging with all nations except Israel.

The chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee warned Tehran over its uranium enrichment on Thursday, adding that any acceleration would result in further sanctions and heightened international pressure to dismantle its nuclear program.

US President Donald Trump revoked security protection for former secretary of state Mike Pompeo and former special envoy for Iran Brian Hook despite warnings from the Biden administration about ongoing threats from Tehran, according to the New York Times.

The European Parliament has adopted a motion for a resolution condemning Iran’s detention of European Union citizens, labelling the practice as “hostage diplomacy.”

Iraq is prepared to mediate between the United States and Iran, but while Tehran has signaled openness to the proposal Washington has yet to do so, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Thursday.

Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman called US President Donald Trump's decision to re-add Cuba to the list of state sponsors of terrorism 'baseless and arbitrary', standing alongside Tehran's long-time ally.

President Masoud Pezeshkian’s strategic deputy, Mohammad-Javad Zarif, has come under heavy criticism by Iranians following his remarks at the Davos Summit, where he said the government has relaxed hijab enforcement in Iran.

Israel’s president and Iran’s vice president exchanged sharp words this week at Davos, with Isaac Herzog dismissing Mohammad Javad Zarif as powerless, prompting a fiery response in which the Iranian official called Herzog a “nobody.”

Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi called on France's Senate to support the criminalization of gender apartheid and prioritize the fight for human and women's rights in Iran in a video call from Tehran on Thursday.

Several politicians and commentators in Iran have indicated that president Masoud Pezeshkian has received approval from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the Supreme National Security Council to initiate negotiations with the United States.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has criticized the UN chief’s call for Iran to renounce nuclear weapons, calling it audacious and insisting that Tehran remains firmly committed to its obligations under global nonproliferation agreements.

A vast, dark cloud blankets Tehran. We don't even need to say when: it’s almost all the time, with fewer than ten days of clean air last year.

US President Donald Trump is set to list Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), Al-Arabiya English reported citing officials familiar with the matter.

Ten Baha'i women were arrested on Wednesday to serve the jail terms they had been handed over in October, the Hengaw human rights organization reported, as the crackdown on the Baha’i minority continues.