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German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser warned on Tuesday about the increasing espionage and cyber threats from foreign adversaries, particularly Russia, China, and Iran.

Iranian and Taliban officials have discussed potential "joint action" against Israel amid the war in Gaza and chances of a war between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel escalating.

Ahmadreza Jalali, an Iranian-Swedish scientist currently sentenced to death in Iran, has reproached the Swedish Prime Minister for abandoning him in the recent prisoner exchange with Tehran.

Human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi has been handed another year in prison on charges of "propaganda against the system" as she continues to fight the government from behind bars.

Rights group Amnesty International has joined an Afghan and Iranian women's gender apartheid campaign amid continued nationwide oppression in the two Islamic regimes.

For the first time in more than a year, US and Israeli officials will reportedly meet on Thursday to discuss the state of Iran’s nuclear program, according to a report by Axios.

Several Iranian government and private organizations as well as the campaigns of some presidential candidates in Iran are known to be conducting surveys and opinion polls before the June 28 election.

A bipartisan group of over 40 US House lawmakers has called on the Biden administration to “expeditiously implement” stringent new Iran sanctions targeting the country’s oil exports to China.

Former Foreign Minister Mohammad-Javad Zarif’s fiery speech at the end of a televised roundtable discussion of the pro-reform candidate Masoud Pezeshkian has sparked a lot of pro and con reactions.

The cargo ship that was struck on June 12 by Yemen's Houthis, identified by the Iran-backed rebels as M/V Tutor, "is believed to have sunk" in the Red Sea, the British maritime authority said.

The Biden administration's acting special envoy for Iran says he has discussed Tehran's "destabilizing" activities in South America during a visit to Brazil.

The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency reportedly paid hard cash to a US sanctioned Iranian regime atomic weapons scientist in Vienna in early 2022 and sent Tehran-controlled nuclear researchers to Russia for training.

Experiencing tightly controlled and unfree elections for five decades, most voters in Iran have realized since 2020 that they do not have a meaningful role in electing their president or members of parliament.

US and Israeli intelligence agencies are investigating new computer modeling by Iranian scientists which could potentially be used for the research and development of nuclear weapons.

Four deaths were reported after a 5.0 magnitude earthquake hit Kashmar in northeastern Iran's Razavi Khorasan province around noon on Tuesday.

The death toll among Iranian pilgrims participating in this year's Hajj in Saudi Arabia has risen to 11 as extreme heat and crowding see fatalities mounting.

Iran's ex-foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, announced plans to support Masoud Pezeshkian, a so-called "reformist" presidential candidate, in an upcoming political roundtable on state television.

In the first debate among Iran’s presidential candidates, hardliners denied the impact of nuclear-related sanctions, while two candidates said improving international ties is crucial for fixing the economy.

A US court has extended a temporary restraining order against Ramezan Soltan-Mohammadi, an employee of Iran's Interests Section in Washington, after he was seen threatening an Iranian protester last month.

In a rebuke of state-run media practices, the office of Iran’s former President Hassan Rouhani has issued a letter of complaint to the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB).

In the absence of independent election polling in Iran, multiple social media channels have launched their own ad-hoc polls, which reveal totally contradictory results depending on who the followers of each channel are.