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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.

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.