President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that excessive government spending and an overgrown bureaucracy are major drivers of the country’s persistent inflation, arguing that only by shrinking the state can Iran restore financial balance and ease pressure on households.
Iran’s Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization has urged Saudi Arabia to increase the number of Iranians permitted to perform the Hajj pilgrimage next year, saying its current quota does not reflect the country’s population size.
A spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met US President Donald Trump two months before the recent 12-day conflict, adding that they discussed plans to topple Iran’s Islamic Republic within three days.
Iran’s foreign minister on Thursday said the country should not fear war and faulted the United States for withdrawing from a past nuclear deal and failing to achieve diplomatic progress in talks.
An Iranian lawmaker said policymakers lack the resolve to take long-delayed decisions on subsidized petrol, bread and exchange rates, urging the government to settle the issues and adopt a single foreign-exchange rate.
Australia’s Parliament has passed a law allowing the government to list foreign state entities such as Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as sponsors of terrorism, after intelligence linked the group to antisemitic attacks in Sydney and Melbourne.
Iranians affected by Germany’s visa delays, including students and families seeking reunification, remain stuck in limbo months after the 12-day war with Israel ended in June according to accounts gathered by Iran International.
An Iranian economist detained this week had suggested that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei helped empower the country's ultra-hardliners, in remarks that quickly drew Tehran's ire and underscored a widening clampdown on critical voices.
The US Justice Department is investigating whether a son of Iran’s former security chief breached sanctions while using a global network of banks, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.
A survey conducted by a Netherlands-based polling institute found that most Iranian respondents believe Israel bested the Islamic Republic in a June war and support direct talks between Washington and Tehran.
Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Wednesday that Tehran's current missile power exceeds levels before a 12-day war with Israel in June and that its arch-foe was defeated in the conflict.
British activist Tommy Robinson vowed to burn an image of Iran's Supreme Leader as anti-government activists plan to perform the protest on Friday in solidarity with a man found dead in Iran after filming himself doing so.
Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov, who was freed by an Iran-backed Iraqi militia in September, told the New York Times she was tortured by her captors in her first media interview.
It begins with a sound. A hiss, then silence. A man in Tehran holds his phone to a dry faucet at midnight; you can hear the air whistling through the pipes. “It’s 11:40 p.m. and there’s a smell of fire,” he says.
UN human rights experts have urged Iran to halt the imminent executions of six political prisoners, citing allegations of torture, prolonged solitary confinement and unfair trials — claims Tehran denies.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told French President Emmanuel Macron that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and that Tehran is not seeking to obtain nuclear weapons, Iranian state media said on Wednesday.
An Iranian man who twice crossed the English Channel in a small boat has been returned to France again under the UK-France returns pact, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said on Wednesday.
An Iranian lawmaker said economic interests tied to the sale of virtual private networks are working to keep internet filtering in place and that lawmakers are pursuing an inquiry into the pressure campaign, according to an interview published by Rouydad24.
Danish police have arrested a 42-year-old Afghan man in Aarhus who is wanted in Germany over suspected Iranian espionage and an alleged plan to attack Jewish targets, Danish media reported.
Iran’s water authority said on Tuesday that two-thirds of the country’s dam capacity is empty and rainfall has reached historic lows, with 20 of Iran’s 31 provinces recording no precipitation since the start of the new water year in late September.
Seventy-six Iranian lawmakers urged the justice minister on Wednesday to file international complaints against US President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Rafael Grossi, head of the UN atomic watchdog.