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A veteran Iranian fighter jet pilot says sanctions on the country are the main reason for the high number of military aviation accidents and casualties among air force pilots.

Sporadic protests continued in Iran on Saturday despite a heavy presence of security forces and minimal information available with lack of internet access.

Jailed Iranian-American businessman Siamak Namazi has criticized the presence of Iran's foreign minister at Davos, saying his was convicted on charges of collaborating with the World Economic Forum.

A website in Iran has noted that some remarks by Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian this week in Davos were not statements he would have made in Tehran.

Amid a new wave of popular protests across Iran, the country’s judiciary has hanged at least 26 prisoners in various cities over the past 10 days.

Iranian authorities are putting up high concrete walls around a cemetery near the capital where hundreds of victims of the 1988 prison executions are buried.

Iran said on Saturday the crew of two Greek tankers seized by its Revolutionary Guards on Friday had not been detained and are on board their vessels.

Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff of the Iranian armed force, has unveiled Iran’s first cruise missile than can be fired from a drone, named Heidar-1.

The Biden policy of not enforcing Iran oil sanctions has led to a misperception in Tehran that there is no need for a nuclear agreement, a website in Iran says.

Four police forces were injured in an assault by a gunman in downtown Tehran, Iran’s official news agency IRNA reported on Saturday, adding that the assailant was injured and arrested.

Fars news agency has acknowledged that Iranian security forces used tear gas and fired in the air to disperse protesters in Abadan, Khuzestan, Friday evening.

A senior Israeli official has visited Saudi Arabia ahead of United States President Joe Biden’s scheduled visit to the region, Israel’s Channel 12 said Friday.

Despite the meeting between their foreign ministers in Switzerland Thursday, tensions between Iran and Pakistan appear to be playing out at the border.

A former lawmaker has called on the Iranian parliament to pass strict legislation banning any activity by members that could represent a conflict of interest.

An Afghan cleric sent to Iran as a diplomat cannot find housing for his 15-member family of three wives and 12 children, Afghanistan International TV reported Friday.

Taking the cue from the Supreme Leader, most officials are finally calling for punishment of all those responsible for the deadly crash of a building in Iran.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is revamping a massive ship near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, providing the IRGC navy with a floating base to run its fleet of small fast boats designed to counter the US Navy.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has seized two Greek oil tankers in helicopter-launched raids in the Persian Gulf about a week after the confiscation of Iranian oil from a tanker held off the Greek coast and its transfer to the US.

Suicide drones were used to target an Iranian military research facility on Wednesday, the New York Times reported Friday, citing three Iranian sources and a US official.

An article published Thursday by the Washington Free Beacon continues controversy over meetings in 2018 between former United States officials and Iran.

Iran has summoned chargé d'affaires of Switzerland that represents Washington’s interests in Tehran to protest the US seizure of Iranian oil cargo from a Russian-operated ship in Greece's territorial waters.