A prominent Sunni tribal elder in Iran’s restive Sistan-Baluchestan province was shot dead on Sunday, the latest in a series of targeted killings that authorities blame on foreign-backed terrorist groups.
Jon Snow, the longtime British broadcaster, once spoke at a London roundtable about his trips to Tehran. Asked how Channel 4 gained such easy access to Iranian officials, he paused and replied, “They whistle, and we go.”
Iran executed a man on Saturday convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the judiciary said on Sunday, the second such execution reported in less than a month.
Iranian Vice Speaker of Parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei called on Muslim countries’ parliaments to pass binding laws imposing a complete economic, trade, and political boycott of Israel during a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denounced the display of a drone in the British Parliament allegedly linked to Tehran, calling it “a pathetic show” staged by the Israeli lobby and its backers.
Iran’s Health Ministry says milk consumption in the country has dropped to less than half the recommended level, warning of rising nutritional risks amid falling purchasing power and food insecurity.
Iran’s Quds Force has been directly involved in reorganizing Hezbollah’s military network in Lebanon following the killing of Hassan Nasrallah and the group’s heavy losses in its conflict with Israel, according to an investigation by the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Russia and China agree with Tehran that UN sanctions on Iran have not been automatically reimposed and that the Security Council resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal has now expired on October 18, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Saturday.
An LPG tanker struck by an unknown projectile in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday was carrying an Iranian cargo, TankerTrackers reported, while Iranian state media denied the vessel had links to Iran.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Saturday condemned what it called Israel’s violation of the Gaza ceasefire, after the Israeli military said it struck a car in the enclave that had entered a restricted area, killing 11 members of a Palestinian family.
An international human rights conference opened Saturday in Oslo, bringing together Iranian and non-Iranian activists, legal scholars, and political figures to debate the shape of a rights-based future for Iran after the Islamic Republic.
Despite millions of dollars in state funding and tight clerical oversight, most of Iran’s mosques sit half-empty, and Friday prayers have dwindled as a platform for religious and political messaging.
Iran will be held responsible for the actions of armed groups it supports, including Hamas, and should be kept out of ceasefire negotiations between Israel and Hamas, a senior US senator told Iran International on Friday.
Two Iranian lawmakers — one sitting and one former — have been handed suspended jail sentences and bans on media activity over separate cases involving public remarks deemed damaging to national security and public order, the judiciary’s official news outlet reported on Saturday.
Iran parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has sent to President Masoud Pezeshkian the law approving the country’s accession to the UN anti-terror finance convention, with conditions that limit implementation to Iran’s constitution and domestic laws.
Iran will no longer implement any of its commitments under the 2015 nuclear deal, which expired on Saturday, the country’s foreign minister told the United Nations, once again refusing to acknowledge the reimposition of UN sanctions triggered by European powers last month.
Iran has denied involvement in what Britain’s domestic intelligence service described as Iran-linked plots on UK soil, saying the accusations are unfounded and damage diplomatic relations.
A fresh debate has erupted in Tehran over Russia’s role in Iran’s foreign policy amid diplomatic moves that may suggest an intermediary role for President Vladimir Putin between the Islamic Republic and its arch-foes Israel and the United States.
The United Nations World Tourism Organization on Friday named three villages in Iran among the world’s 52 best tourism villages for 2025, citing their rich cultural heritage and historical significance.
While relations between Moscow and Tehran have generally been good, ties between former Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif and the seemingly perpetual Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are decidedly not.
Iran’s former ambassador to Caracas said on Friday that US President Donald Trump is exaggerating the threat of drugs from Venezuela to justify an attack on the country, while ignoring the role of Washington’s traditional ally, Colombia.