Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he resisted international pressure to halt the war in Gaza because Israel’s security depended on removing the threat from Iran and its armed allies.
At least 1,537 people were executed by hanging in Iran between October 2024 and October 2025, the highest figure in a decade, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday in its annual report marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Hydropower generation at the Amir Kabir Dam in Karaj, west of Tehran, has stopped after storage fell to 25 million cubic meters, while lawmakers warned that several provinces could soon face acute drinking water shortages.
The United Nations said on Thursday it could not confirm Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref’s statement that Secretary-General António Guterres told him the June war with Israel had ended efforts to topple the Islamic Republic.
Leaked documents and media investigations indicate a Berlin businesswoman allegedly ran oil sales for Iran from her apartment, with the proceeds apparently reaching Iran’s Ministry of Defense through a web of front companies operating in Asia.
A conservative Iranian lawmaker said parliament is reviewing an emergency motion to stop the implementation of Iran’s conditional approval to join a United Nations convention against terror financing, arguing it would expose the country’s sanction-busting networks.
An outlet close to Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani has republished a 50-year-old interview with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in an apparent bid to draw historical legitimacy to Tehran’s current hardline stances.
While top officials in Tehran remain silent on the Gaza–Israel peace deal, Iranians across the political spectrum have flooded social media, some hailing Hamas’s “victory” while others condemned Iran’s costly involvement.
The newly published text of a draft Iranian anti-espionage law increases punishments for the use of Elon Musk's Starlink internet technology, including the death penalty if used for spying.
Iran is poised to implement a new anti-espionage law expanding government control over social media and online activity which could expand the death penalty for internet speech.
A 22-year-old student was shot dead by Iran’s paramilitary forces in the central Iranian city of Isfahan during the country’s war with Israel in June, a student-run newsletter reported on Thursday, citing the victim’s family.
Iran executed 72 people in the first nine days of October, bringing the total number of executions this year to at least 1,172, according to US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.
The United States on Thursday imposed new sanctions on dozens of companies and individuals it accuses of helping Iranian energy exports and facilitating the acquisition of US chip technology by Iran's military and regional allies.
Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again turned to impeachment, targeting four ministers in President Masoud Pezeshkian’s cabinet, in what critics say is a bid to stall the government rather than to offer alternatives.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iranian authorities had been in contact to express their desire to pursue peace and to strongly back a deal he reached aimed at winding down the war in Gaza.
Iran's intelligence minister on Thursday steered clear of any comment on a US-backed deal aimed at winding down the Gaza war but said Tehran had foiled Israeli designs for regime change.
The US Treasury Department said on Thursday it imposed sanctions on more than 50 individuals, entities and vessels involved in facilitating Iran’s petroleum and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exports, in a move aimed at curbing Tehran’s energy revenues.
Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday appeared to back a preliminary deal to end the two-year-old war in Gaza clinched by US President Donald Trump, saying Tehran has long supported any agreement to end the fighting and secure Palestinian rights.
President Donald Trump said US attacks on Iran nuclear sites in June had paved the way for a deal agreed by Hamas and Israel to wind down the war in Gaza and expressed hope Tehran would join a Mideast peace.
Fresh research and US court filings have traced an expansive international network supplying helicopter parts and even a full American-made aircraft to Iran’s military.
The US government added more than two dozen companies in China, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates to a trade blacklist, accusing them of providing illicit support to Iran’s military or its regional proxies, Bloomberg reported on Thursday.