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Iranian Central Bank officials are denying that the government is considering introducing a large-denomination bill into its circulation.

Amidst global media attention on tensions between Israel and Iran, the Supreme Leader's representative in Gilan province suggests that the state should "seize the opportunity" to enforce the country's Islamic hijab laws.

The head of Revayat-e Fath Foundation, an IRGC-affiliated cultural center, said the foundation is going to produce cinematic works on Iran’s offensive against Israel.

Iran is preparing to sue a sanctioned Turkish businessman and broker over a dispute involving $263 million in debts related to electricity imports.

The fundamental policy of the Islamic Republic has traditionally been to avoid direct confrontation with Israel, instead strategically maneuvering its proxy groups across the Middle East like pieces on a chessboard.

Israeli media cited foreign reports of an strike on Iran on Friday in the absence of official public comment, while Iranian officials and media played down the attack.

Aida Shakarami, the older sister of the slain teen protester Nika Shakarmi, has been transferred to Shahr-e Rey women's prison after her arrest by security forces for refusing to wear the hijab.

Following Israel’s airstrike on Iran, Iranian Parliamentarian Mahmoud Abbaszadeh Meshkini is warning the country for having made “a very dangerous and strategic mistake by playing with the lion's tail".

Several prominent ‘reformist’ figures have lambasted the Iranian government’s new wave of crackdown on women defying mandatory hijab.

British investigators believe that the three suspects sought in connection with the stabbing of Iran International's presenter are from Eastern Europe.

Mashallah Karami, the jailed father of executed protester Mohammad Mehdi Karami, was abruptly transferred from prison to an undisclosed location this week and was returned to prison Thursday.

A senior IRGC commander warned Thursday that Tehran could change its nuclear policies if Israel continues to threaten to attack Iran’s nuclear sites, tacitly suggesting no cooperation with world bodies and building a nuclear bomb.

Iran told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that Israel "must be compelled to stop any further military adventurism against our interests" as the UN secretary-general warned that the Middle East was in a "moment of maximum peril."

The Israeli army on Tuesday pulled out an 11-meter (36-foot) long remnant of one of the Iranian ballistic missiles that had crashed into the Dead Sea following the large-scale Sunday attack and showed it to reporters.

Multiple women arrested by the morality police in the latest crackdown since the weekend have informed Iran International about severe violence including severe physical assault as well as sexual verbal abuse.

Aida Shakarami, the older sister of the slain 16-year-old Iranian protester Nika Shakarmi, was arrested in Tehran yesterday by the Islamic Republic's guidance patrol for not wearing the hijab.

The United States and Britain on Thursday announced new sanctions on Iran targeting its military and unarmed aerial vehicle production after its attack on Israel.

The commander of the Aerospace Force of the IRGC has claimed the aerial attack on Israel was carried out with old weapons and minimal military strength amid backlash over the operation’s ineffectiveness.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) summoned the Swiss ambassador during the attack on Israel, a New York Times report on Wednesday confirmed.

The Mahsa Act looks set to be incorporated into a wide scale aid package in Washington on Saturday, aiming to weaken Iran and its allies.

Heavy rainfalls and flooding of local rivers have so far claimed the lives of at least eight people in Sistan-Baluchestan, dealing a heavy blow to the infrastructure of the southeastern Iranian province.