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Dissident director and screenwriter Bahare Lelahi was allegedly killed by Iran’s security forces and buried in secret.

After relatively strong GDP growth in 2023, Iran's economic growth would decelerate in the current and next two years, World Bank reported Wednesday.

Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah fired big barrages of rockets at Israel on Wednesday in retaliation for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander, sharply escalating tensions across the Lebanese-Israeli border.

General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the top military advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, has declared that Iran's next president must align closely with the Supreme Leader's directives.

The economic landscape for workers in Tehran is marked by severe hardship, with annual inflation hovering above 40% for five years while wages have only risen marginally.

US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the destruction of two anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) launchers operated by Houthi forces in Yemen.

An Israeli strike on the village of Jouya in southern Lebanon late Tuesday killed a senior field commander of Hezbollah and three fighters for the Lebanese armed group, three security sources said.

The first TV interviews with the leading 'reformist' and conservative candidates on state television Monday appear to have disappointed both politicians and ordinary voters.

Iran says Iraq has rejected US request to extradite Mohammadreza Nouri, a Revolutionary Guard officer who has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of an American in Iraq.

Former political prisoner Mehdi Mahmoudian has disclosed he is facing two charges, one regarding his comments about the Baha'i minority in Iran and the other for an infestation of bedbugs in Evin Prison in Tehran.

Conflicting accounts have emerged regarding the status of a new comprehensive cooperation agreement between Iran and Russia.

The generally accepted master narrative about Iran's presidential election describes it as an engineered election with a pre-determined winner.

A recent expose by Tehran's Hamshahri newspaper has revealed that Iran's top officials and politicians such as the former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, are joining Iran's cosmetic surgery boom.

Mehran Abbasian, a reporter for Iran International TV, has been moved to a secure location following threats to his life, after similar threats against the channel’s journalists in the UK beginning in 2022.

After interventions from Sunni clerics, the death sentence for Mohammad Khezrnejad, a dissident Sunni Kurdish cleric has been commuted to life imprisonment.

A court in Ontario has found that Ukraine International Airlines failed in its duty to cancel flight PS752 in 2020 that took off from Tehran amid military activity and was downed by the IRGC killing 176.

Former political prisoner Hossein Ronaghi has alleged that security forces threatened him with sexual assault and confiscated his belongings while he was traveling from Tabriz to Tehran on Sunday.

The Revolutionary Court of Tehran has handed down a six-year prison sentence to Atena Farghadani, a cartoonist targeted for her critique of the government.

Northern Israeli residents who face daily attacks from Iran-backed Hezbollah say their lives have turned into "hell", and view the Islamic Republic of Iran as responsible.

Iranian law enforcement agencies have recently widened their crackdown on cafes secretly serving alcohol to customers, with two cafes in Tehran province sealed by authorities in the last week.

Iran’s state TV began its programs introducing the six handpicked presidential candidates on Monday, airing recorded interviews with each candidate before four-hour TV debates take place starting next week.