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Iran's acting president reassured Russian president Vladimir Putin that regardless of the incoming president, ties with Iran would remain "deep".

Sharifeh Mohammadi, a prominent labor activist imprisoned in Iran has been sentenced to death on charges of armed rebellion.

Iran has found itself importing gasoline since last year due to the government's inability to expand oil refineries and exacerbated by the delivering of approximately one million new, low-efficiency domestic cars into the market.

The sister of an Iranian protester on death row, Mojahed Kourkour, was arrested after security forces raided the family home.

The Iranian presidential election has demonstrated yet another attempt by Iran's "reformists" to try to change the Islamic Republic gradually instead of either accepting the status quo or agreeing with a revolution.

The father of Mahsa Amini, whose death in Iran's morality police custody sparked a nationwide uprising, stated his family is boycotting the sham presidential elections.

As Iran’s presidential election runoffs approached this week, the government intensified its media crackdown to control the narrative amid historically low voter turnout in the first round on June 28.

State-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) said early on Thursday it signed three memorandums of understanding (MOUs) with Turkish companies to "support the localization of defense industries" in the kingdom.

In the midst of the second round of presidential elections in Iran, which saw a historic low turnout by the majority of voters, the issue of ballot boxes in Western countries sparked widespread protests among the Iranian diaspora.

As the runoff race of the presidential election in Iran approaches, the government and its media are trying to create the illusion of a contested political atmosphere, to attract disillusioned voters.

Iran's Judiciary has given jail terms to two student activists for their protest against dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi's death sentence, which was overturned last week.

Iran's exiled prince, Reza Pahlavi, has called on Iranians to stay away from ballot boxes Friday, when Iran's next president will be determined in the runoff between Saeed Jalili and Masoud Pezeshkian.

Canadian immigration authorities have initiated deportation proceedings against five suspected senior Iranian government officials residing in Canada.

Bashir Biazar, a former Iranian official with links to the IRGC Quds Force who was detained in France for acting as "an agent of influence and agitator" returned to Iran where he received a hero's welcome.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei admitted on Wednesday that the low participation rate in the first round of presidential elections on Friday was "less than expected" after more than 60% refused to vote.

An Iranian judicial official has issued a warning that Tehran will file “criminal cases” against anyone who “obstructs voting” in its presidential election at designated polling stations abroad.

A lawsuit filed in a US federal court on Monday by Jewish Anti-Defamation League (ADL), alleges Hamas could not have carried out the October 7 atrocities against Israel without the support of Iran, Syria and North Korea.

Iran's Foreign Ministry has imposed sanctions on 11 American officials it accuses of clamping down on academic movements supporting Palestine.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister threatened that Lebanon will become "a hell without return for the Zionists" if a full-scale war breaks out with Iran's proxy Hezbollah.

In the second and final debate on Tuesday between Masoud Pezeshkian and Saeed Jalili, the two candidates competing in Iran’s runoff presidential election, discussed Iran’s nuclear issue and the economic crisis.

Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) reported a profit of 138.1 billion riyals ($36.81 billion) for 2023, a significant turnaround from the $15.6 billion loss it posted a year earlier.