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Touted as a diplomatic breakthrough, Iranian President's first trip to Iraq last week aimed high on economics and security but seemed to hit more roadblocks than milestones.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Sunday urged the United Nations to criminalize gender apartheid, in a message from prison on the second anniversary of Iran's 'Woman, Life Freedom' movement.

In a show of global solidarity, Iranians staged protest rallies across cities in Europe and Australia on Sunday, as communities in the United States also planned their own gatherings in different cities.

Despite the powerful protests from 2017 to the 2022 Mahsa uprising, Iran's political landscape remains intensely debated as analysts and opposition groups seek to understand why the Islamic Republic does not fall.

In Sunday's cabinet meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is "at war with Iran's axis of evil" as Yemen's Houthis evaded the country's air defense systems.

On the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, Iranian authorities have threatened her family with arrest as they restricted gatherings at her burial site to quash potential unrest.

Iran’s Mahsa movement (2022-2023) was a non-violent uprising aimed at overthrowing the Islamic rule established in 1979. The government’s sole response was to suppress the protestors because of the movement’s objective.

On Sunday, Iran reiterated that its nuclear program is peaceful, despite skepticism among Western governments and experts, as well as increasing international pressure over its recent activities.

In a reaction to Iran's delivery of ballistic missiles to Russia, Poland's Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorsky said this week that Iran's new President Masoud Pezeshkian has disappointed him.

The world on Saturday witnessed a unified wave of protests marking the second anniversary of the death of Mahsa Amini, a young Iranian woman whose killing at the hands of Iran's morality police in 2022 sparked nationwide ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ protests.

Ali Bagheri-Kani, Iran's former top diplomat and chief nuclear negotiator, has been appointed as the new secretary of Iran's Strategic Council on Foreign Relations (SCFR), a body that advises the Supreme Leader on foreign policy.

The G7 foreign ministers and the EU High Representative have condemned Iran's export of ballistic missiles to Russia, calling it an escalation in Tehran’s support for Moscow's war against Ukraine.

As Iran continues to amass near weapons-grade fissile material, edging ever closer to becoming a nuclear threshold state, the IRGC announced the "successful" launch of a new "research" satellite into orbit.

On the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death, US President Joe Biden signed a memorandum delegating his authority under several Iran-related laws, including the MAHSA Act, to the Secretary of the Treasury.

A recent directive limiting Afghan refugees' access to bakeries has sparked controversy in Iran, highlighting growing tensions over the rising influx of Afghan migrants against the backdrop of a struggling economy.

As global calls intensify to commemorate the second anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s state-sanctioned killing, her family remains uncertain if security forces will permit a memorial ceremony in her hometown.

Ukraine's foreign ministry announced on Friday that since September 2022, Russia has launched 8,060 Iranian-made Shahed 136 suicide drones at Ukraine, as news of Iran’s missile deliveries to Russia dominated headlines this week.

Iranian short-range missiles newly delivered to Russia will enable it to hit frontline Ukrainian targets with better precision and free up existing weaponry for attacks farther into the country, Britain’s Defense Ministry said Friday.

Iran is winning against the Americans in the Red Sea, through their proxy the Houthis, said a former Royal Navy Commander during an episode of Iran International’s podcast Eye for Iran.

Two years after the "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Jina Amini in the custody of Iran's so-called morality police, a UN Fact-Finding Mission report exposes the state's ongoing human rights abuses, particularly against women.

Iran has increased its activities at two nuclear sites that were key to its early nuclear weapons program two decades ago, according to a report by the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS).