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French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has published a cartoon lampooning Iran's clerical rulers for briefly jailing Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi over an unveiled online concert.

Millions of Iranian families will celebrate the ancient Winter Solstice festival on Friday evening, though many have scaled back their budgets for the occasion, with businesses reporting a notable drop in sales.

Prisoners in Iran are suffering through bitter winter weather with inadequate heating and insufficient medical care which is contributing to illness, information obtained by Iran International revealed.

On Friday, The Times revealed that police in London and the Charity Commission are investigating Dar Alhekma Trust (DAT), a charity with alleged links to Iran.

The United States imposed sanctions against entities linked to Iran and its allies the Houthis in Yemen on Thursday just weeks before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump is due to herald even harsher pressure on Tehran.

"I can’t remember the last time I was so shaken as I was watching images of Assad’s prisons," says Fatemeh, who has seen the inside of Iran’s prisons for her activism. “My country funded these crimes. Syrians have every right to hate us."

The United States designated Iran’s Ghezel Hesar Prison where hundreds of dissidents have been tortured and executed over the years.

Syria’s largest oil refinery, Baniyas, halted operations after losing crude shipments from Iran, its primary supplier, the Financial Times reported, citing the refinery’s general manager.

The now-viral unveiled performance by singer Parastoo Ahmadi which landed her briefly in jail was not just an artistic endeavor, but a groundbreaking act of defiance of Iran’s new oppressive Hijab law and the theocratic apparatus of control.

A leading conservative cleric urged the government to channel what he claimed was $30 billion in foreign currency and $40 billion in gold held by the public into Iran’s ailing economy.

The sudden downfall of Syria's Bashar Al-Assad has put his main backer Iran on the backfoot while giving Turkey the upper hand in a transformed Middle East.

An Iranian political prisoner blasted the government for carrying on with executions while shutting down schools, offices and businesses amid ongoing energy deficit. “One thing has not been paused for those in power, and that is executions," Haeri said from prison Thursday.

A senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards swiftly denied Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim earlier on Thursday that Russia had airlifted 4,000 Iranian troops from Syria to Tehran, marking a rare public disagreement between the two partners in arms.

Iran will back any agreement that has the approval of the Palestinian people, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday.

Iran plans to enter talks with Meta and X, the country’s communications minister Sattar Hashemi said, in what seems to be a bid to shift responsibility for filtering from the state to the platforms.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday morning's airstrikes across Yemen targeting Iran-backed Houthi militias marked a decisive step in dismantling Tehran’s regional alliance.

Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan leveled a diplomatic barb at Tehran, saying that Iran’s heavy involvement in Syria failed to protect the people of Gaza from a devastating Israeli incursion.

Iran’s former president Hassan Rouhani criticized calls from top government officials for a shift toward pursuing nuclear weapons, saying they give Israel and the United States an excuse to attack.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) creates obstacles to Iran's use of peaceful nuclear technology due to US pressure, Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran's Atomic Energy Organization, said Thursday.

Government offices, schools, and universities in Tehran were shuttered on Thursday as the country's ongoing energy crisis escalated in a week of shutdowns across Iran.

Moscow evacuated 4,000 Iranian soldiers from Syria to Tehran by air after rebels took control of the country, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, suggesting Iran depended on Russia to flee the country after it fell to rebels.