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At least 711 people have been executed in Iran since January, prompting female political prisoners at Evin prison in Tehran to call on authorities to stop issuing death sentences.

Iran's foreign minister on Saturday expressed Tehran's preparedness for the resumption of negotiations over its nuclear program but warned that the window will remain open for a limited period of time.

Tehran’s firebrand Kayhan daily rejected a Wall Street Journal report that Iran had provided written assurances to the Biden administration not to target Donald Trump, asserting that no such guarantees could ever be made.

Tehran must embrace atomic bombs to achieve "regional balance," said an Iranian member of parliament on Saturday, adding fuel to an already heated discourse over the future of Iran’s deterrence policies.

Iran’s exiled prince, Reza Pahlavi, has declared that reaching a reliable agreement with the Islamic Republic is impossible, pointing to its four-decade history of hostility with other countries and oppression.

Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday denied reports of a meeting between Trump advisor Elon Musk and its UN representative, dismissing it as "media sensationalism" by American outlets, two days after the story first surfaced.

Iran’s pistachio industry, long a source of pride and badly needed revenue, is grappling with an export crisis after the European Union rejected over two dozen shipments over the presence of fungal toxins.

The Iran hawks chosen by president-elect Donald Trump mark a major shift in US-Iran policy, signaling early steps toward change in Iran, a Middle East expert and former British Army officer told the Eye for Iran podcast.

Donald Trump's presidency could either bring Iran's rulers toward a grand bargain with the United States or a collapse rivaling that of Nazi Germany, French celebrity philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy told Iran International.

The US special envoy to Iran and international rights groups blamed Iranian authorities on Friday for the suicide of Iranian journalist and activist Kianoosh Sanjari, who faced repeated arrests and underwent years of abuse in custody.

UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi toured two of Iran’s key nuclear sites on Friday as Iran signaled readiness to restart negotiations over its disputed program in an effort to ease sanctions.

Israeli airstrikes targeted the Mazzeh suburb of Damascus on Friday, intensifying an air campaign against Iran-linked targets in Syria.

Iran's President and Parliament Speaker appear to have put the brakes on the enforcement of the ultra-hardliners’ controversial Hijab Act by refraining from officially communicating it to the government for implementation.

A senior Iranian official in a visit to Beirut blessed efforts to reach a US-mediated ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, in one of the clearest signs yet Tehran wants to wrap up a year of conflict there.

Iranian officials have so far remained silent on reports that Elon Musk, a Trump team insider, met with Tehran’s ambassador to the UN. However, some state-controlled media outlets have described the meeting as potentially beneficial.

Three IRGC officers and four assailants were killed, while six others were arrested, in an attack that took place during a military operations in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Thursday.

On the fifth anniversary of Iran’s 2019 bloody fuel price protests, three economists reviewed lessons for the current government and warned against a similar decision for yet another fuel price hike.

In the week since Donald Trump won the US election, Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian and his foreign policy chiefs have talked about the importance of engaging with Washington. Their wording may vary, but the message is one: that tensions with the US must be managed.

Iranian Prince Reza Pahlavi said on Thursday that the opportunity was ripe for the end of the nearly half-century rule of the Islamic Republic that replaced his father, saying he was ready to assume temporary leadership.

The US-based Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) urged the United Nations and member states to immediately hold Iranian authorities accountable for a deadly crackdown on protests in 2019 as the fifth anniversary of the uprising approaches.

Iran’s military leaders ramped up their rhetoric against Israel on Thursday and promised retaliation for air strikes on the country last month even as the government said it was open to diplomacy over Iran' nuclear program.