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A leading scientist has resigned from his post at an Iran university after being interrogated for voicing support for protesting students.

A former Iranian official, implicated in smuggling 2.4 tons of gold, returned from Canada where many individuals linked to the Islamic government have found refuge.

The majority of Iran’s people are unhappy with the regime’s “costly” hostility to the West, according to a former president of the Islamic Republic.

Iran's foreign ministry says there is “sufficient evidence” for the charge of espionage brought against a Swedish EU diplomat whose trial began in Tehran Saturday.

A dental surgeon in Iran who refused to wear hijab at an honorary ceremony has been expelled from her medical university.

The fall in mosque attendance in Iran is now “highly alarming”, according to a senior government minister.

The scale of the latest financial corruption case in Iran has been so huge that officials and media see no harm in revealing and discussing previous cases.

Mahsa Amini was given the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought posthumously at a ceremony in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Iranian security forces have raided two Sunni schools in Zahedan and arrested tens of students from the religious minority.

The Islamic Republic in Iran and the Erdogan regime in Turkey act with remarkable similarity in using religion to gain loyal followers in the West.

An Iranian education official has called for the enforcement of hijab among students to go far beyond school uniform rules.

The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, says the sanctions against the country must be lifted before Tehran fulfills its nuclear commitments.

Russia and Iran will speed up work on a "major new interstate agreement", the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Amirsalar Davoudi has been incarcerated since 2019 and has now been granted temporary release from Evin Prison on bail of 50 billion rial, equivalent to $100,000, a substantial sum in Iran.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Tuesday they attacked the Norwegian commercial tanker STRINDA in their latest operation against commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

A legal complaint filed on Monday asked Swiss authorities to arrest Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi if he travels to Geneva to attend a UN event.

Iran’s president has said talk will not be enough to resolve the $3.5billion tea scandal in which ministers and officials are implicated.

Iran, despite having the world's second-largest natural gas reserves, has not yet become an LNG producer, and faces a critical shortage for essential domestic needs.

An Austrian man carried out "hostile reconnaissance" against Iran International, which could have been used in an attack on the channel, prosecutors told a London court on Monday.

The EU has brought sanctions against Iranians involved in the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by Russia in Ukraine.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim to have stopped a ship heading to Israel in the group’s latest response to the Gaza conflict.