Minutes after voting concluded in Iran’s presidential elections at midnight Friday, unidentified assailants attacked a vehicle transporting election boxes in Sistan-Baluchistan Province on June 29.
Siamak Namazi, an Iranian-American businessman formerly imprisoned in Iran criticized Sweden's recent prisoner swap with Iran, leaving behind Swedish-Iranian physician Ahmadreza Djalali on death row in Tehran.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported on Friday that its forces destroyed seven Iranian-backed Houthi uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) and one ground control station vehicle in Yemeni areas under Houthi control.
With all 24.5 million ballots counted, pro-reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian is leading in Iran's snap presidential election, followed by hardliner Saeed Jalili who will compete in next Friday's run-off election.
Iran has called the possibility of the Gaza war extending to Lebanon “Zionist regime’s propaganda” but cautioned that "the full involvement of all Resistance Fronts is on the table" if such an escalation occurs.
Iran has installed half of the advanced uranium-enriching machines it recently announced for its underground Fordow site, according to a UN nuclear watchdog report seen by Reuters.
Iran has retained its place on the Financial Action Task Force’s(FATF) blacklist, for not respecting international banking and related rules after a meeting in Singapore concluded Friday.
Iran’s Green Movement leaders Mirhossein Mousavi and Zahra Rahnavard abstained from voting in the presidential elections, while Mehdi Karroubi publicly endorsed Masoud Pezeshkian, the sole reform-leaning candidate.
Germany has called on the Islamic Republic to prevent further escalation in the Middle East "at all costs", as Israel and Tehran-backed Hezbollah of Lebanon lurch closer to a full-blown war.
Activists in the Iranian diaspora mobilized internationally to protest and boycott the presidential election, resulting in confrontations and arrests at some polling stations.
The prison authorities have barred death row prisoner Reza Rasaei from receiving phone calls and family visits for the past week, according to Dadban, a group of pro-bono lawyers in Iran defending political prisoners.
A covert arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) has been rigging elections and manipulating Iran's political landscape through a clandestine network of cultural and political operations, according to a new analysis by United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI).
Canada’s Conservative Deputy Leader Melissa Lantsman has accused the Liberal government of deliberately leaking its plan to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he did not rule out a possible meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to help restore bilateral relations between the neighbors.
Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman, Nasser Kanaani, criticized the US acting special envoy's criticism of Iran's snap presidential election, labeling them as "outrageous meddling."
Fifteen diaspora Iranian political and human rights organizations have criticized Sweden's release of former Iranian official Hamid Nouri, convicted of war crimes, in a prisoner exchange with Tehran.
Human rights groups report that prisoners in Saqqez in western Iran, are being compelled to participate in Friday's presidential election under threat of penalties.
Pro-participation and pro-boycott Iranians are using a host of arguments to convince each other to vote or not vote in the June 28 snap presidential elections.
US President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump clashed over their Iran record in their first televised debate Thursday night, with each accusing the other of weakness and neither offering a clue about their policy towards the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian-American campaign to oust a former top official of the Islamic Republic from his job at Princeton University reached the northern German port city of Hamburg on Thursday.
Sweden’s prime minister has expressed regret that Swedish-Iranian death-row prisoner Ahmadreza Djalali has started a hunger strike after being left out of the Stockholm-Tehran prisoner swap.