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Heavy rainfalls have led to significant flooding across 21 regions in Iran, affecting residential areas and agricultural lands.

Iran will have no mercy for drug traffickers, warned Attorney General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad amid rising concerns about the country’s alarming rate of drug-related executions.

The Islamic Republic’s Education Minister is criticizing UNESCO’s 2030 Education Agenda for promoting “gender equality,” labeling it as contradictory to Iranian culture.

The appointment of Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of President Ebrahim Raisi, to the executive board for faculty recruitment at Tehran University has stirred controversy.

Eight students from the Anwar al-Haramain religious school in Sistan-Baluchestan have been arrested by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accused of supporting insurgent Sunni Baluch group Jaish al-Adl.

While Iran's efforts to become a regional transit hub over the last two decades have failed, talks are reportedly underway with 21 countries to launch free economic zones aimed at boosting the sector.

An Iranian lawmaker has implied that a secret and controversial contract by Tehran's city administration with a Chinese firm is in fact an attempt to circumvent sanctions.

Amid an Iran-backed blockade of the Red Sea, an Iranian warship has crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time, media in Tehran reported on Saturday.

Iran retained its position as the second highest country to imprison writers amid the country's nationwide uprising, second only to China, according to the 2023 Freedom to Write Index.

The ancient archeological site of Naqsh-e Rostam, located in Iran's Fars Province, risks collapse after severe damage inflicted due to ground subsidence recent heavy rainfall.

Almost two weeks after a death sentence handed out to Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, the Iranian diaspora took to the streets in Australia on Saturday to protest his death penalty.

On World Press Freedom Day, the United States paid tribute to Iranian journalists who continue to face severe pressure from the government as Iran is branded the world's second worst country for jailing writers.

The chasm between the Iranian populace and the government has widened to such an extent that it has become a defining feature of the Islamic Republic, serving as a primary driver behind the myriad challenges it currently confronts.

Canada has voiced its concern over a BBC World report detailing the alleged assault and murder of 16-year-old Nika Shakarami by Iran's security forces amid hijab crackdowns.

Just over two weeks have passed since Israel conducted its surgical strike against the regime in Iran in retaliation for its unprecedented direct attack on Israeli territory.

A 17-year-old cross-border porter was shot on Friday by Iran's border guards on the Iraqi border, suffering severe injuries to his face and eyes.

UK Defense Secretary Grant Shapps has branded recent sanctions imposed on him by Iran as a misguided attempt at intimidation.

High-ranking officials from the US treasury will travel to Singapore and Malaysia next week to urge the two Asian commerce hubs to do more to stop flow of funds to Iran and its affiliated armed groups.

Hundreds of the Iran-Iraq war veterans and their families have launched an appeal to the leaders of the Islamic Republic, urging them not to execute Toomaj Salehi, a protest song rapper.

US Central Command forces destroyed three unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in an area of Yemen controlled by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

Mostafa Tajzadeh, a political prisoner at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, has voiced criticism against the Iranian regime's heightened enforcement of hijab laws targeting women.