US President Donald Trump says the Iran war is effectively over militarily, but his plan to maintain a naval blockade raises questions about how long the standoff can last and whether it serves the interests of the Arab neighbors he says support it.
Nearly 47 years after Iran's 1979 revolution, a former football chief has asked what Iranians got for its promises, pointing to officials’ children living abroad, oil wealth that never reached wages and a state that answered protests with bullets.
Iranian authorities have arrested several people accused of encouraging women to defy mandatory hijab rules on a popular cultural street following a series of security operations and business closures in the area, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
Iraq’s government announced shortly before Iran’s national football team was due to fly to Basra on Tuesday that the flight could not go ahead.
Canada on Tuesday reimposed sanctions on 11 Iranian entities, including the national oil and tanker companies and four major banks, that it had taken off its list in 2016 under the nuclear deal, citing their support for Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
President Donald Trump’s talks with Qatar’s prime minister come amid a renewed diplomatic push to end the Iran war, but securing terms both Washington and Tehran can present as a victory remains a central obstacle, analysts told Iran International.
Iranian human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi suffered a heart attack in detention and was hospitalized in Isfahan before being returned to prison a day later following a court appearance, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Monday, citing an informed source.
UN human rights experts called on Iran to end what they described as escalating persecution of independent lawyers, warning that restrictions on legal representation were leaving defendants vulnerable to arbitrary detention, coerced confessions and unfair trials.
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Iran signaled a willingness to negotiate an end to its confrontation with the United States on Monday, but insisted Washington must first lift measures imposed since the Islamabad understanding, as disputes over nuclear activities and control of the Strait of Hormuz continued.
Severe weather and flooding across Iran have killed four people, injured 11 and cut off access to 190 villages, with emergency teams responding to widespread damage, officials said on Sunday.
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned ships against cooperating with US forces after reporting three tankers on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, while Houthis targeted Saudi Arabia and Israel warned of unfinished operations against Iran on Sunday.
Iranians expressed anger and grief over the execution of three protesters and new death sentences against others, criticizing the United States and the international community for their response in messages sent to Iran International.
More than 78,500 people have died in road accidents in Iran over four years, yet the government is seeking to delay new vehicle safety standards despite repeated warnings about the quality of domestically manufactured cars.
Belgium’s defense minister said on Friday that Tehran had warned his country of dire consequences if it allowed Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled prince, to speak in Brussels, and that the event had gone ahead anyway.
An Israeli strike on Iran remains possible, but Israeli defense officials have detected no major US military buildup in the region, Ynet reported on Friday, citing unnamed defense officials.
An Iranian court has sentenced two men arrested during January's anti-government protests to death, a rights group reported Thursday, adding to a growing number of protesters facing execution in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
Even as Iran grapples with war, economic crisis and the threat of renewed US and Israeli attacks, its security forces are breaking up Halloween celebrations, closing cafes and detaining people for gathering in public.
Unpaid insurance reimbursements and rising medicine and equipment prices are draining private hospitals' finances, threatening their ability to maintain services and increasing costs for patients, hospital executives said in accounts published on Thursday.
Iranian state television broadcast live a mock hanging of US President Donald Trump as part of a pro-establishment campaign featuring public displays calling for his killing, following Republican losses in Tuesday's US midterm elections.
Russia agreed to supply Iran with 90 helicopter-mounted launchers for precision-guided missiles widely used by Russian forces in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, revealing another dimension of Moscow's military cooperation with Tehran.
US Vice President JD Vance blamed the war with Iran for Republicans' sweeping midterm election defeats, including the loss of both chambers of Congress, as President Donald Trump weighed renewed military strikes against Tehran or a negotiated settlement to end the conflict.