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A top official of Iran’s tax administration says that tax collection this year has increased by 55 percent, as the government resorts to domestic revenue sources.

While many Iranian hardliners deny the damaging impact of protests for the regime, others now claim that the unrest has strengthened the Islamic Republic.

Brazil postponed the request of two Iranian warships to dock in Rio de Janeiro in January, under pressure from Washington, Reuters has said in an exclusive report.

Reactions are still pouring in to the proposal by Iran’s former premier-cum-opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi for constitutional change through a referendum that could end in regime change.

Media affiliated with hardliners in Iran have been outraged by Iran International's report on Wednesday about security agents raping two detained young women.

Dozens of US lawmakers have written to President Joe Biden to express concerns about reports that Iranian-made drones recovered in Ukraine contain parts manufactured in the United States.

Released documents show that Iran, along with Russia, China and some other authoritarian governments had access to the private data of Fabcebook users.

Iran’s foreign minister says no journalist was arrested during the past five months of protests, claiming that "We cannot confirm the detention of journalists in Iran.”

The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on companies it said that play a critical role in the production, sale and export of Iranian oil and petrochemicals.

The government’s plans to demolish tens of historic houses in the ancient city of Shiraz to expand Shia shrines has outraged many Iranians.

A group of female political prisoners, who were released on Wednesday, chanted the Iran protests slogan, "Woman, life, freedom" outside the notorious Evin prison in Tehran.

The public prosecutor of Sirjan in southern Iran has announced that a lawyer, who died two months after release from prison, committed "suicide by using medicinal products".

The Islamic Republic of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has for the first time admitted that there are disagreements between the people and the regime.

The adviser to Iran’s minister of intelligence has claimed that 90 countries are "customers" of Iranian drones, and China is in the "queue" to receive 15,000 of these drones.

A prominent Iranian reformist figure says the Iranian regime should be worried as even ex-President Mohammad Khatami says that reformism in Iran has reached a deadlock.

Iran's representative to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has predicted that the oil price may soar to around $100 per barrel as demand in China rises and supply remains limited.

A large group of US Congresspeople have expressed support for a democratic, secular, and non-nuclear “Republic of Iran,” in a draft resolution that comes after five months of antigovernment protests.

Amid pressures over its human rights violations and crackdown on dissent, the Islamic Republic faces isolation and a serious economic crisis without a nuclear deal with the West.

A group of German parliamentarians gathered outside Iran’s embassy in Berlin to express support for the Iranian protesters calling on the regime to release detained demonstrators.

The Munich Security Conference (MSC) has invited Iranian and Russian opposition members instead of the governments to participate in its 59th annual meeting.

A letter leaked by a hacktivist group to Iran International reveals details about the rape of two female protesters, aged 18 and 23, by IRGC agents.