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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian is coming under growing pressure for what critics call his failure to match tough talk on economic reform with concrete action.

Iran on Thursday rejected the Group of Seven foreign ministers’ final statement, accusing the bloc of lying about Iranian nuclear activities and alleged support for Russia's war in Ukraine.

A Christian convert detained in Tehran’s Evin Prison was denied adequate medical care after suffering a spinal fracture from a fall, London-based rights group Article 18 reported.

An Iranian Grand Ayatollah has urged the faithful to perform traditional Islamic prayers for rainfall as a worsening drought across the country has caused water shortages and threatens to eventually make the capital Tehran uninhabitable.

The debut of Tehran Fashion Week, held as part of Tehran Design Week, has set social media abuzz as the officially sanctioned fashion on show looked nothing like its past editions which extolled Islamic modesty.

A senior member in Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's office said on Thursday that Iran's leader views talks with the United States as acceptable if they mitigate threats to the country and advanced its interests.

Israel’s destruction remains a core aim for the Islamic Republic, Iran’s top armed forces spokesman said on Thursday at a memorial ceremony in Tehran, as senior officials sharpened their rhetoric amid growing talk of another clash with Israel.

Iran will run a drill to test its mobile phone warning system on Friday, Iranian media said, sending test alerts to selected users between 10 and 12 local time as officials speak more often of renewed conflict with Israel.

A British couple held in Iran on spying charges have begun a hunger strike inside Evin prison, their son told the BBC on Thursday, saying his mother described the move as her only means of protest.

Syria will help the US take on Iran’s Guards and Hezbollah as part of a sharp turn in its ties with Washington, US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on Thursday in a post on his X.

Iran's metro police arrested two men dressed in army air defense uniforms on Wednesday after they held up the pre-1979 Iranian flag at a Tehran station, according to Iranian media reports.

In Iran, privilege often dresses itself as virtue, with the best-known example being a former vice president’s son boasting about his “good genes”—a phrase now firmly embedded in the national lexicon.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday urged the United Nations to hold the United States accountable for Israeli strikes on Iran, demanding in a letter to the UN chief and Security Council that Washington pay reparations.

An Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday accused senior officials of nepotism and corruption after a 20-year-old student set himself on fire when municipal workers moved to demolish his family’s food kiosk.

The intelligence wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a security operation targeting 400 people linked to Iran Academia, an online platform offering free Farsi courses in social sciences and humanities, state media reported on Wednesday.

As Iran’s capital Tehran endures its worst water crisis in living memory, few recent global cases offer clearer lessons than Cape Town in South Africa in 2018.

Iranian state TV is facing backlash for criticizing a footballer and his wife as immoral even after it was mute about a scandal over the daughter of a top official's revealing wedding dress last month.

The United States on Tuesday announced sweeping sanctions on 32 individuals and companies across eight countries it accused of helping Iran rebuild its ballistic missile and drone programs after setbacks sustained during a June conflict with Israel.

Iran’s political establishment is once again flirting changing laws to allow women to ride motorcycles even as women and girls have already spent years doing it without waiting for an official green light.

Iran has yet to allow UN inspectors to visit nuclear sites hit by Israeli and US airstrikes in June, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report on Wednesday, saying verification of Tehran’s enriched uranium “long overdue.”

A confidential survey has found that more than nine in ten Iranians are unhappy with the country’s direction, the Tehran-based news site Rouydad24 reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed polling organization.