A senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei met Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Friday, an Iranian lawmaker confirmed, amid reports that the Syrian president is desperately reaching out to his friends and foes to secure his grip on authority.
Retired teachers and medical students staged protests across Tehran over the weekend, underscoring widespread frustration with the Iranian government over unfulfilled promises and mounting economic pressures.
The worsening air pollution in Tehran has prompted authorities to suspend in-person classes, restrict vehicle movement, and cancel sports activities to protect public health.
Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian has once again drawn attention to the country’s worsening shortages in critical areas such as electricity, water, oil, and gasoline, as Tehran maintains financial aid to its proxy forces.
The foreign ministers of Iran, Russia, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Jordan and Egypt issued a joint statement on Saturday warning about the threat the Syria crisis poses to regional security, as rebels threaten Bashar al-Assad's rule from north and south.
Iran’s foreign ministry has dismissed reports that its embassy in Damascus is being evacuated. Meanwhile, some Iranian media outlets have started to acknowledge the possibility that Bashar al-Assad could be overthrown in the near future.
The clerical government in Iran is currently grappling with at least seven significant domestic and international crises, creating what can be described as a "mega-crisis" for the whole political system and its leadership.
The stunning advances by Syrian rebel forces, which could ultimately unseat Bashar al-Assad, threaten to dismantle two decades of costly Iranian efforts to create dominance in the region.
The United States assesses that Iran could rapidly build a nuclear weapon should it decide to do so, according to a November 2024 intelligence report released Thursday which said there were no indications yet it was building a bomb.
Some Iranian politicians and state-controlled media appear to be promoting a parallel narrative about huge Syrian military losses seemingly aimed at reassuring the Tehran's ideological supporters that the so-called axis of resistance it leads remains intact.
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Syrian Kurdish fighters, seized the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor and a nearby Iraqi-Syrian border crossing used by Iran to arm Lebanon's Hezbollah, Reuters reported on Friday.
Iran plans to send weapons and personnel to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, as rebel forces advanced rapidly toward Homs, potentially threatening the capital Damascus and Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Iran’s new chastity and hijab law has drawn criticism from journalists and activists who warn it represents a new weapon in the state's arsenal against women which could authorize extreme punishments including the death penalty and flogging.
Iran's capacity to produce uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, near weapons-grade, has seen a "dramatic increase," chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog the IAEA Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Friday.
The hardline daily Kayhan in Tehran has criticized Iranian officials for presenting conflicting positions on talks with the West, particularly the United States, over the past four months since Masoud Pezeshkian assumed the presidency.
The Israeli military struck weapons transfer hubs and infrastructure near the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to transport arms, the military said Friday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Baghdad on Friday for talks with his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts about the rapid advance of rebel forces in Syria.
The United States on Thursday demanded Iran release Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi with no conditions, a day after her release for three weeks of medical leave.
A new report from a US-based rights group drawing on hundreds of interviews over more than two years has documented Iran's systematic denial of accountability and legal redress for killings and other grave human rights abuses.
Iran has funded the bulk of aid distributed to Lebanese families affected by a 14-month war between Israel and the country's Tehran-backed militia Hezbollah, the group's leader said, even as an economic crisis festers inside Iran.
Romania arrested and charged two nationals over the stabbing of prominent Iran International presenter Pouria Zeraati in London earlier this year, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday, but authorities stopped short of linking Tehran to the attack.