One of the more telling features of the election campaign in Iran was that no candidate seemed to appeal to Generation Z first-time voters. Perhaps they assumed it was a lost cause, believing Gen Z wouldn't vote.
The United States on Thursday imposed new Iran-related sanctions in response to Tehran's "nuclear escalations and lack of cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog."
Iran's relations with the United States appear to be at the heart of the country's plethora of issues, as highlighted by state television and the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's selection of six candidates to replace former President Ebrahim Raisi.
The fate of the so-called "Resistance Front" is tied to that of its main sponsor, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Secretary General of Lebanon's Hezbollah said.
The United States ambassador to the United Nations Human Rights Council has expressed concern over Iranian transnational repression targeting media outlets, particularly Iran International.
A nationwide strike by contract workers in Iran's oil and gas industry that began last week has now spread to over 110 companies, involving more than 20,000 workers.
A significant portion of the Iranian population, reportedly up to two-thirds, perceive the meticulously orchestrated presidential elections as a "circus" and regard the debates as a boring and tedious spectacle.
The commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani (Qaani), has praised former Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian for being the voice of Iran's armed proxies abroad.
A group of UN special rapporteurs have called on Iran to "immediately and unconditionally" release Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi, and all other female human rights defenders.
Iran's vice president for women and family affairs has revealed that late President Ebrahim Raisi had banned women from holding executive positions.
The US Department of State's latest International Religious Freedom report has revealed Iran's continued violations against religious freedoms.
Until May 2024, preparations were underway to get Iran’s late president Ebrahim Raisi re-elected in 2025. Raisi had won his first term in a non-competitive election in June 2021 but died in a helicopter crash in May.
A hijab enforcer at a metro station in Shiraz, southern Iran, sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl to "test maturity", according to human rights sources.
Alireza Zakani, the Mayor of Tehran, formally withdrew from the presidential race just a day before the election in support of the other hardline candidates, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Saeed Jalili.
Prominent politicians in Iran weighed in on the issue of election Wednesday, with two former presidents endorsing the "moderate" candidate and several opposition figures calling on people to boycott Friday’s election.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, playwright, and screenwriter Bahram Beyzai, and award-winning Iranian director Maryam Keshavarz to become members of the Academy.
The UK’s Labour Party intends to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist entity, if it wins the general election next month, according to a report by the British newspaper The Telegraph.
Several student organizations, women's and youth groups are adding their voices to the growing collective effort to boycott the upcoming presidential election in Iran.
Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who is on death row in Iran’s Evin prison, has started a hunger strike to protest being left out of a recent Tehran-Stockholm prisoner exchange, his wife said.
Iranian presidential candidate Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi has withdrawn from the race two days before the election day in support for the three other hardline candidates.
The US does not expect Iran's June 28 presidential election to result in any "fundamental change" in the Islamic Republic's direction, the Biden administration's acting special envoy for Iran said.