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The Arab league is no longer classifying Hezbollah as a terrorist entity, a move that experts say is a big win for Iran and serves to strengthen the Iranian proxy in Lebanon.

Iranian pro-reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that the low turnout in Iran’s presidential election was “unacceptable” and a sign of flaws in the system, while his hardline rival Saeed Jalili called for strategies to encourage greater voter participation.

More than 100 victims and relatives of victims of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas in Israel sued Iran, Syria and North Korea for $4 billion on Monday, accusing the countries of providing Hamas support.

A Shia cleric critical of Iran’s Supreme Leader says a wave of confidence has swept through dissidents after 60% of voters refused to participate in the June 28 presidential election.

A member of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council has revealed details about large discounts being offered to buyers to sell oil sanctioned by the United States.

An Iranian man who attacked three police officers with a knife near the German city of Nuremberg died after police shot him near a train station on Sunday.

​​The repression of rappers in Iran continues unabated, with at least three individuals recently arrested, underscoring the ongoing suppression of artistic expression and dissent in Iran.

Four Iranian prisoners died under unclear circumstances at Sheiban Prison in the southern city of Ahvaz, while fifteen others were transferred to hospital.

Even without trusting government-controlled election figures over the years, turnout has steadily decreased in Iran. The rulers of the Islamic Republic cannot deny the statistics from their own Ministry of Interior.

At least 10 Iranian Kurdish Kolbars, or cross-border porters, were killed or injured on the Iraqi border in June, with 90% of the incidents resulting from direct fire by Iranian border guards.

Politicians close to Iran's 'reformists' have begun warning voters about hardliner presidential candidate Saeed Jalili, as they argue that his ideological rigidity will hurt the country.

Iran’s crude oil and gas condensate exports surged to 1.7 million barrels per day (mb/d) in May, hitting a 5-year high point, since the imposition of full US sanctions in May 2019.

The Iran-backed Iraqi Resistance Coordination Committee (IRCC) has threatened to target the US interests in Iraq and the broader region should Israel launch an attack on fellow Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Iran’s elections are not 'free and fair,' the US State Department told Iran International on Sunday, in its first comments on the results of Friday's votes that led to a runoff between a moderate and a hardline candidate.

Members of Iran's Reform Front attempt to portray Masoud Pezeshkian as a moderate presidential candidate compared to his rival Saeed Jalili. But does he genuinely embody moderation as a regime insider?

Eight detainees from Iran's 2022 nationwide uprising following Mahsa Amini's death in police custody were tried in a Revolutionary Court on Sunday, with some facing charges punishable by death.

Prominent Iranian Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Jafar Sobhani said the forces of Saudi Arabia are seeking to destroy unity in Iran during a meeting on Sunday at Navvab Seminary in Mashhad north-eastern Iran.

With pro-reform Masoud Pezeshkian and ultra-hardliner Saeed Jalili in Iran's July 5 runoff, debates are heating up. Some advocate voting for Pezeshkian to prevent Jalili's win, while others consider boycotting the vote again.

The head of the Iranian Parliament's Research Center has warned of a critical shortage of teachers, with 176,000 needed for the upcoming academic year.

Bijan Zanganeh, Iran's former oil minister, says he has filed a lawsuit against Iranian presidential candidates Saeed Jalili and Alireza Zakani for “slandering and insulting” him on state TV during the fourth presidential debate on June 24.

Mona Bakhtiari, whose brother Pouya Bakhtiari was killed during the 2019 protests, says her mother has been physically assaulted in prison.