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Chaos at the hands of Iran’s allies and proxies rippled across the region this weekend, with its effects felt from Israel to the US with Israel blaming Tehran.

Three prominent actresses defiantly appeared ‘bare headed’ at the funeral of a colleague Friday despite authorities’ warnings of serious consequences for ‘hijabless’ women.

Hardliner lawmakers dominating Iran’s parliament amid multiple crises are looking for ways to ensure their re-election, including tampering with electoral law.

An Iranian lawyer says some protest detainees, who were earlier pardoned by Supreme Leader’s amnesty, have been summoned to face trials.

Saudi news media say officials have arrived in Iran to discuss procedures for reopening Riyadh's embassy in Tehran and consulate in Mashhad.

Iranian media report that the special assistant of the Russian president will hold talks with Iran's national security chief Ali Shamkhani on Sunday.

The UN special rapporteur on Iran has expressed solidarity with the Iranian hunger striker who has camped outside the British Foreign Office for 44 days.

Reports say a street sign in Iran’s religious city of Mashhad that was named in honor of a Shia cleric executed in Saudi Arabia has been removed.

Iran’s government-controlled media is speculating about the direct economic benefits of restoring relations with Saudi Arabia, amid a deep economic crisis.

Human Right organizations report that suspected gas poisoning in Iran’s schools continued on Saturday with with 12 schools targeted and several schoolgirls hospitalized.

An economic daily says housing prices and rents in Tehran have jumped in the past three months by at least "40% compared to the previous quarter.

A federal court in New York has sentenced Niloufar Bahadorifar, an Iranian-American woman, who had pleaded guilty in a plot to kidnap opposition figure Masih Alinejad, to four years in prison.

A former Iranian lawmaker says "the Islamic Republic expected regional countries to recognize it as the gendarme of the region just like before the 1979 revolution."

Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has expressed solidarity with dozens of Iranians who lost their eyes to police gunfire during recent antigovernment protests.

Iran's acting education minister Reza-Morad Sahraei, a life-long Basij operator, has threatened protesting university students and professors with expulsion.

Rights groups fear the Iranian rapper, Toomaj Salehi, jailed for his anti-regime lyrics, will be given the death sentence.

Iran has sentenced a protester turned rebel to death for the killing of a nine-year-old during unrest in November, although the victim’s family insists he is innocent.

The Islamic Republic has condemned the latest Israeli strikes in Lebanon and Gaza, carried out in retaliation for rocket attacks presumed to be linked to Iran-backed militias.

French and Iranian foreign ministers held a face-to-face meeting in Beijing Friday, with varying accounts emerging from the discussion.

The past year was a year full of tensions and Iran faced complex behaviors by Western powers, nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami said at the Friday Prayers in Tehran.

Zahedan has been a scene of regular protests for the past several months with its Sunni cleric Mowlavi Abdolhamid delivering Friday prayer sermons decrying regime atrocities.