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Activists and families of political prisoners on death row staged a protest outside Tehran's Evin Prison on Tuesday, calling for the abolition of capital punishment in Iran.

The National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of Iran’s Parliament said that while negotiation remains a valid diplomatic tool, talks with the United States have consistently harmed Iranian interests.

Iran says it has submitted a formal complaint to the UN Security Council over comments by US President Donald Trump suggesting an ultimatum for Tehran between a military strike or reaching a new deal, saying it violates international law and the UN Charter.

Omani and Iranian military chiefs met in Tehran on Tuesday as the two nations prepare for military drills.

In Tehran, recent speeches and statements reveal Iranian officials are on edge over the intensifying war of words between US President Donald Trump and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Iran is terrified after losing almost all its air defenses and now would love to make a deal with the United States, Donald Trump said on Monday, adding that he would also prefer a deal with Tehran to an Israeli attack on their nuclear sites.

Several Iranian state media outlets are reporting false information that Donald Trump imposed outlandish preconditions for talks with Tehran, in what analysts call a coordinated campaign to justify Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's rejection of talks with the US.

The hardline Kayhan newspaper which is overseen by Iran's Supreme Leader has yet to comply with a court ruling requiring the return of a sizable tract of public land, according to a whistleblower journalist.

A senior Iranian lawmaker called for strengthening ties with China, Russia, and neighboring countries after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei rejected the idea of negotiations with the United States.

The trial began on Monday of a man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie, the irreverent author menaced with a religious death warrant from Islamic Republic founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

A young Iranian woman was arrested for appearing without a mandatory head covering and chanting "death to the dictator" in a public square in southwestern Iran on Monday, an eyewitness told Iran International.

A crackdown on the Iranian Baha'is in Isfahan has prompted German-Iranians to urge the mayor of the southwestern German city of Freiburg to pull the plug on its municipal partnership with Isfahan.

The United States imposed new sanctions last week on an international network accused of transferring Iranian oil to China, the first such measure under President Donald Trump’s so-called maximum pressure policy on Iran.

An Iranian court has sentenced a protester arrested during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom protest uprising to death and two others to lengthy prison terms, France-based Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) reported on Monday.

The acting leader of Hamas said in Tehran on Monday it would defy President Donald Trump's plan for the United States to seize and rebuild Gaza, the coastal enclave the Iranian-backed Palestinian group controls.

On Monday, the Iranian state marked the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution, set against the backdrop of controversies surrounding potential talks with the United States, mounting public discontent and a deepening economic crisis.

The British government has not funded Iran's influence network in Western countries, the UK Foreign Office told Iran International, rejecting remarks by a Swedish-Iranian scholar who said his involvement in the scheme was backed by the UK government.

Iran's president was among the country's top leaders voicing opposition to dialogue with the United States during events marking the 46th anniversary of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

Incoming flights from Iraq to Beirut are being subject to inspection to prevent the transfer of money to Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, Lebanese media reported on Monday.

Many Iranians have taken to social media to demand the resignation of President Masoud Pezeshkian, citing his unfulfilled promise to step down if he failed to resolve the problem of US sanctions.

Nasser Seraj, a senior Iranian judiciary official accused of abuses by rights groups, has been appointed as the secretary of Iran's High Council for Human Rights and the judiciary's deputy for international affairs.