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Amid crackdown on businesses and cultural establishments due to women not adhering to the mandatory hijab, two more bookstores in Tehran faced closure on Saturday.

Iranian authorities have been shutting down cafes around Tehran University campus in the past eighteen months to “protect the wholesome Islamic-Iranian culture.”

Shops in the cities of Zahedan and Chabahar in Iran’s southeast went on strike Saturday to mark the first anniversary of the mass killings by the government.

Former UN inspector David Albright says the efforts to discredit individuals involved in Iran's influence campaign in the United States is a justified action.

Following months of heated disputes between the Islamic Republic and the Taliban concerning water rights, a four-member Taliban delegation has recently travelled to Iran.

A hardliner cleric and a loyalist to Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei has said that the Constitution does not requite the Assembly of Experts to oversee his performance.

Esmail Kowsari, an ultraconservative lawmaker and former IRGC general, has asserted that no protesters were killed during the 2022 anti-regime demonstrations.

Amid rising oil prices, four OPEC+ sources said Friday that the organization is unlikely to tweak its current oil output policy when a panel meets next Wednesday.

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) has unveiled his shortlist for the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize, which includes an Iranian and an Afghan rights activists.

Kurdish parties opposed to the Islamic Republic of Iran have been evacuated from the Iraqi Kurdistan region and northern areas of the country.

The US Department of Defense in its recently published Strategy for Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction characterized Iran and North Korea as "persistent threats."

After revelations of an Iranian influence operation, over 30 US senators have called for the immediate revocation of a Pentagon official's security clearance.

An Iranian lawmaker has joined other politicians and analysts in warning the government that prolonged economic crisis could lead to a fresh wave of protests.

Prisoners at a facility in southwestern Khuzestan province started a fire Friday to protest a death sentence issued against a fellow inmate.

Switzerland has imposed further sanctions in connection with Iran's drone supply for the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the government said in a statement on Friday.

Media in Germany have been discussing a recent report by Iran International on an influence operation by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the US and Europe.

A top military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader has boasted about the attack on US bases in Iraq in January 2020, emphasizing that Ali Khamenei ordered the attack.

Iran’s security forces opened fire injuring at least 23 people in Zahedan, including four children, who were marking the one-year anniversary of a government massacre.

Iran’s industry minister has criticized the “graveyard of grounded airplanes” at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, calling on Iranian firms to do something about it.

Saudi Arabia is seeking binding US security guarantees, primarily against Iran, before it agrees to establish relations with Israel, sources have confirmed to Reuters.

Iranian political prisoner Fatemeh Sepehri has said she would only consent to her much-needed heart surgery if her two detained brothers are released.