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Mideast tensions remained high as Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said on Saturday it had fired rockets at Israel, which responded by striking a "terrorist cell."

A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert will begin serving a six-year prison sentence for purportedly "acting against national security by promoting 'Zionist' Christianity".

President Joe Biden, in a letter to Congress, has defended the recent air strike carried out by the US military on a headquarters of Iran-backed militias in Iraq.

Iran's government uses public resources to repress dissidents and to enforce hijab rather than ensuring the safety of borders and citizens, critical voices say.

In a radical statement amounting to ethnic cleansing, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani, has asserted that "Israelis must vacate the region."

Amnesty International has appealed to Iran's judiciary, urging an immediate halt to the execution plans for Mojahed Kourkour and the revocation of his death sentence.

Iran and the United States ironically concurred with ISIS Friday that the group's Afghan branch was behind the deadly twin bombings in Iran on Wednesday.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a targeted campaign on X (formerly Twitter), with cyber agents revealing the identities of anonymous dissident users.

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence released a statement on the Kerman twin blasts, claiming that one of the alleged suicide bombers held Tajikistani nationality.

The Lebanese Hezbollah is conducting fierce attacks against Israeli targets to help Hamas in Gaza, the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday.

Iran's Statistical Center recently announced a decline in the country's unemployment rate to 7.6 percent this fall from 10.6 in the same period in 2019.

An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for defying the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab, while another hijab refuser was given a two-year prison sentence.

Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Friday that a number of suspects have been arrested over the Kerman attacks claimed by Islamic State.

The Istanbul-based correspondent for the German public TV station ARD sparked anger over his report that claimed all Iranians worship IRGC’s late Qasem Soleimani.

Iraq is forming a committee to prepare the closing down of the US-led international coalition's mission in the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's office said on Friday.

Iran’s prosecutor-general has threatened legal action against individuals publishing norm-breaking content about the twin bombing in Kerman this week.

China's oil trade with Iran has stalled as Tehran withholds shipments, demanding higher prices from its top client, Reuters quoted refinery and trade sources as saying.

Amnesty International has called for “urgent action” to stop the imminent execution of Reza Rasaei, a detainee linked to last year's nationwide protests in Iran.

Questions are being asked about the veracity of the claim that ISIS was behind the twin bombings in Kerman, Iran, which killed between 84-94 people on Wednesday.

Jordan stepped up its campaign against Iran-linked drug and weapons smuggling networks in Syria by launching air strikes at their warehouses and hideouts.

Each year as Iranian officials extoll IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of his death, they inadvertently affirm the reasons behind the US decision to assassinate him.