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The international financial watchdog FATF has kept Iran and North Korea on its back list during its latest meeting that ended on Friday.

Iran’s ministry of communications has backtracked, possibly temporarily, from a plan to provide unrestricted internet access to foreign visitors to encourage tourism.

Canada has strongly condemned threats by the Iran's regime against journalists inside and outside the country, stressing that it supports the right to freedom of expression.

Sweden's security service has drafted a protective act to intensify recruitment regulations in sensitive jobs for dual nationals or children of immigrants.

Demands for education to be taught not only in Persian but also in the mother tongue of the many communities within Iran, has gone viral on social media.

Iranian state television has offered a defense against an accusation attributed to International Atomic Agency Organization inspectors that it enriched uranium to 84% purity.

Romanian authorities say a Lebanese-Belgian citizen, who is considered a key financier of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah was arrested on Friday in Bucharest.

Iran has developed a cruise missile with a range of 1,650 km a top IRGC commander claimed Friday, as he threatened to kill former US President Donald Trump.

Amnesty International says Ebrahim Rigi, a 24-year Baluch protester in Iran died as a result of beatings and injuries he sustained in police custody this week.

An Iranian reformist cleric says two hardliner factions in Iran control the whole political system and prevent a dialogue to make changes or revise the constitution.

The Islamic Republic is likely to sell surface-to-air missiles to Syria, state television said on Friday, to help reinforce the air defenses of Tehran's close ally in the face of frequent Israeli air strikes.

Iran’s currency rial kept hitting new lows on Friday and broke another resistance point, dropping to 540,000 to the US dollar and 570,000 to the euro.

As February 24 marks one year of Russia's war in Ukraine, it also marks one year since Iran’s nuclear talks ended in Vienna, despite US reluctance to admit it.

Iran is reportedly preparing to close the British embassy in Tehran as tensions simmer over a plot to kill journalists in UK, and London’s rebuke of crackdown on dissent.

The Iranian regime was determined to prevent the Sunni population of Zahedan to hold another round of protests Friday by heavily deploying its security forces.

The UK has sanctioned 92 individuals and entities over the Russian invasion of Ukraine, including export bans on items Kiev has found Moscow is using on the battlefield.

Washington says it has renewed a waiver of sanctions against Iran’s state radio and television establishment, the IRIB, on the basis of US national interests.

After long airing forced televised ‘confessions’ of dissidents, Iran's regime is increasingly coercing individuals to post dictated statements on social media.

The Canadian government has announced it will facilitate the process for Iranian temporary residents in Canada looking to extend their stay.

Residents near Karaj, west of Tehran, published videos of anti- aircraft fire Thursday night, which the government media described as military drills by the IRGC.

The Swiss Foreign Ministry defended the decision by its ambassador in Tehran, Nadine Olivier Lozano to wear the full body veil, the chador, on a visit to Qom yesterday (Wed) following global outrage claiming the undermined five months of protests against the compulsory hijab.