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Britain's foreign ministry on Monday said it had summoned the Iranian charge d’affaires, Iran’s most senior diplomat in Britain, over the crackdown on protests.

Canada has slapped sanctions on 34 Iranian officials and entities, including the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and morality police, over the crackdown on current protests.

As Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei was delivering a speech Monday dismissing nationwide protests, students in a dozen universities began rallying against his regime.

Iran said Monday advances had been made in talks with South Korea over the release of funds frozen by banks due to United States third-party sanctions.

Switzerland’s Foreign Ministry told Iran International on Monday that the country is working bilaterally and multilaterally to protect human rights in Iran.

Iranian teachers have issued a statement announcing a nationwide strike by teachers and students to "show their solidarity and support with all the protesters.”

Germany, France, Denmark, Spain, Italy and the Czech Republic have submitted 16 proposals for new measures by the European Union against Iran over its violent clampdown on current protests.

Iran’s rial has dropped to its lowest point since June when it registered an all-time low against other currencies. The rial is close to breaking that record.

Iran's exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi has called US President Joe Biden not to enter an agreement with Tehran that would financially benefit the Islamic Republic’s repression machine.

State media quoted Iran’s ruler Ali Khamenei as saying that protests were planned and not staged by "ordinary Iranians", in his first reaction to ongoing unrest.

An organized violent government attack on protesting students in Tehran’s Sharif University Sunday has heightened tensions in Iran that can lead to more unrest.

While assessments by Iran’s intelligence and security organs show serious dissatisfaction among young people, they still call for a harsh response to protests.

The United States said Sunday that reports from Iranian sources of a transfer of funds related to the release of Bagher (Baquer) Namazi and to a furlough for his son Siamak Namazi are categorically false.

Protests resumed on Sunday after the busiest day of demonstrations both in Iran and abroad on Saturday, with parliament and IRGC officials trying to have a say.

Leading Iranian Sunni cleric Molavi Abdolhamid said Sunday that plainclothes security agents fired live bullets at the heads and hearts of unarmed people.

Iran’s official government news agency confirmed Sunday that Tehran will receive $7 billion of its frozen funds for a prisoner exchange deal with the United States.

Israel has finally given its green light to a draft US-brokered deal demarcating a maritime border with Lebanon that may lead to cooperation in gas production with Lebanon.

The Canadian premier said Saturday that people around the world are standing in solidarity with Iranians protesting the death of Mahsa Amini and standing up for women’s rights.

The Islamic Republic’s parliament has finally convened to discuss and whitewash Mahsa Amini’s death in custody, and the ensuing protests by blaming “enemies.”

Canada-based activist Hamed Esmaeilion, whose daughter and wife were killed by the IRGC, has called on the international community to downgrade diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic.

A hacking group has shared the alleged identities of the hijab police team that arrested Mahsa Amini, the woman whose death has sparked an uprising in Iran.