Alireza Sepahi, sentenced to death over Iran’s January uprising, faces execution again after being moved to solitary confinement, weeks after a medical emergency halted his first scheduled execution, an informed source told Iran International on Thursday.
Sexual transmission accounted for about 65% of newly identified HIV cases in Iran last year, replacing injecting drug use as the main route of new infections as diagnoses among women increased, a leading HIV researcher said on Thursday.
A rights group has asked German prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity by Iranian authorities, presenting evidence of thousands of killings and mass detentions during nationwide protests that began in late 2025 and early 2026.
The UN’s fact-finding mission on Iran called for the immediate withdrawal of legislation that could expose Iranians to up to 30 years in prison for contact with foreign individuals and organizations, according to a statement released Thursday.
Iran faces shortages of about 800 medicines, including dozens considered vital, as currency constraints and import disruptions threaten to drive some drug costs as much as threefold, Iranian local media reported on Thursday.
Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper urged Iran’s military and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards on Thursday to disrupt or sever international fiber-optic cables running beneath the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to pressure the United States and its allies.
Iran’s economic crisis is deepening, and with few answers for a population becoming poorer, Tehran is signaling how it may respond if economic anger again spills into the streets: repression and lethal force.
US Central Command said Wednesday it was looking into Iranian state media reports that a US strike hit a wedding in southern Iran, while rejecting allegations that American forces target civilians.
Canada awarded more than $2 million in federal and provincial government contracts to the son of a former Iranian vice president despite a long-running investigation into allegations he helped Iran evade sanctions and develop military technology, Global News reported Wednesday.
Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi plans to visit Australia to press the government to close Tehran’s embassy in Canberra and take further action against networks linked to the Revolutionary Guards, The Australian reported on Wednesday.
Growing numbers of middle-aged women are appearing at drug-use sites in Tehran as economic hardship and homelessness push some from previously stable lives into environments rife with addiction and violence, Iran’s Shargh newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Senior White House officials will consider intensifying military action against Iran after the November 3 midterm elections, Reuters reported on Wednesday, citing four people familiar with internal discussions.
Iranian hackers have targeted not only US water systems but also telecommunications, energy and other infrastructure in recent weeks, NBC News reported on Wednesday, citing four people with access to government and industry cyberthreat information.
Russia has secretly helped Iran develop supersonic cruise missile technology that experts say could give Tehran a new way to threaten US Navy vessels in the Middle East, the Financial Times reported, citing leaked Russian correspondence, travel records and military patents.
Iranians are victims of decisions made by their own authorities and of repeated episodes of mass repression, Jérôme Bonnafont, France’s UN ambassador and president of the Security Council for September, said as he outlined the council’s Iran agenda.
Peru severed diplomatic relations with Iran on Tuesday, accusing Tehran of escalating conflicts in the Middle East, restricting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz and obstructing nuclear inspections.
An Iranian court has sentenced Ali Zarei Doozdarresi, a protester shot by security forces and blinded in one eye during the 2022 protests, to death after he returned from Germany and was arrested upon arrival in Iran, US-based rights outlet HRANA reported.
Iran has enough foreign currency to keep paying for essential imports and is ready to put as much as $2 billion into the market to stabilize the rial, Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati said on Tuesday.
Iranians pushed back against a senior government official questioning cheap gasoline, contrasting fuel subsidies with low wages and soaring living costs as the US dollar traded around a historic 2.1 million rials on Monday.
Forty-four percent of respondents to an Iran International Instagram poll said they would not buy a home in Iran even if they could afford one, with comments citing economic insecurity, emigration plans and concerns about keeping their wealth in the country.
A Revolutionary Court in Isfahan has sentenced 10 protesters to death and six others to prison terms of up to 25 years over the nationwide demonstrations in the central Iranian city, according to an activist-run Telegram news channel.
Iranian police arrested a person accused of owing the country’s banking system more than €300 million after receiving foreign currency generated by exports, state media reported on Sunday.