An Iranian container ship was struck by an unidentified projectile, killing one crew member and injuring four, with Iran ruling out reopening the Strait of Hormuz despite plans for a new maritime corridor on Sunday.
Iranians are increasingly buying basic food on credit and lining up for chicken scraps, with shopkeepers and residents describing shrinking purchasing power under rapidly rising prices in a report published Sunday.
Some Iranian schools are charging billions of rials for pools, therapy and small classes as students elsewhere reuse old bags and go without uniforms, shoes and stationery because their families cannot afford them ahead of the new school year.
Iran has executed at least 29 people arrested in connection with the widespread protests in January, more than half of whom were not accused of killing anyone, with some put to death in public in what rights groups describe as a campaign to deter further dissent.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was probably responsible for the aerial attack that shut Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, while predicting that the war with Tehran would end “very soon.”
US President Donald Trump this week repeated the boldest promise of the Iran war, that when Washington is "finished," Iranians should take over their government. In February the sentence stunned. On Wednesday it barely registered, and the silence is the story.
Heavy fighting between Iranian security forces and unidentified gunmen spread across parts of Saravan in southeastern Iran on Saturday, with reports of attacks on military vehicles and dozens of security personnel killed or wounded, the rights group Haalvsh reported.
Russia could help sustain Yemen’s Houthis if Iran’s ability to support the group is weakened, providing a lifeline as the group expands its reach around a second crucial Middle Eastern shipping route, according to Anna Borshchevskaya, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute.
Routine screenings and consultations for Iranian women can now cost more than two months of average pay, as healthcare prices rise much faster than wages and force some women to postpone preventive care.
Anthropic said Thursday that Iranian state-aligned and Iran-linked accounts used Claude in separate operations involving propaganda, targeting US naval forces, domestic surveillance and profiling people in Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
British counter-terrorism police arrested two people in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service in a case linked to Iran, police said on Thursday.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday as the US-Iran conflict widened across the region, while senior White House advisers reportedly warned President Donald Trump that the war could continue beyond the end of his term in January 2029.
An Iraqi commander of an Iran-backed militia who allegedly plotted attacks against Jewish targets in Europe and North America applied three times to visit Singapore, the city-state’s Internal Security Department said.
Iran's cabinet has opposed a report by parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee concerning a controversial bill aimed at countering infiltration by foreign intelligence services, governments and organizations, state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
Maryam Azimi, who has written of being driven blindfolded to court in Mashhad in an intelligence vehicle, thinking those were the last minutes of her life, introduced the new iPhone's camera technology at Apple's global launch on Tuesday.
Iran routed an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion through a China-based trade mechanism over the past year, using proceeds from oil sales to pay for Chinese goods and, at least once, contracts for military equipment, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Construction activity has surged at a deeply buried complex near Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, but satellite evidence suggests the site may not yet be capable of uranium enrichment, according to a new analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Eighteen prisoners held at Dastgerd prison in the central Iranian city of Isfahan could face death sentences over unrest and a fire at the facility, according to a judicial document obtained by Iran International.
Iran's exports to Afghanistan have fallen by at least 25% since the US-Iran war began this year, while competitors have moved quickly to expand their share of the Afghan market, the head of the Iran-Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce said on Wednesday.
Australian Senator Raff Ciccone condemned threats against journalists by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, telling Iran International they were “outrageous” and an attack on press freedom.
The escalating battle between Saudi Arabia and the Iran-backed Houthis may be a test of what remains of Tehran’s Axis of Resistance after months of war and mounting pressure on Iran itself.
Mohsen Namjoo mocked the Quran, ridiculed religious figures and crossed political red lines that have brought severe punishment for others in Iran. Now back in the country, his return contrasts sharply with restrictions still imposed on female singers.