Iranian businessman Babak Zanjani, a tycoon once sentenced to death for corruption before receiving clemency, said that $2.3 billion from a Malaysian bank account tied to him was seized to help pay an international arbitration award against Iran’s National Oil Company (NIOC).
Two members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards were killed and three others wounded in clashes with armed militants in the western city of Sarvabad in Kordestan province, the Guards said on Tuesday.
Iran acquitted dual German-French national Lennart Monterlos of espionage charges linked to the recent 12-day conflict, the head of Hormozgan Province’s judiciary said on Monday.
Tehran University has formed two committees to investigate a deadly hydrogen cylinder blast at its engineering faculty laboratory that killed graduate student Mohammad Amin Kalateh, President Mohammad Hossein Omid said on Saturday.
Erfan Qaneifard, an Iranian political activist and author, has been in a Texas immigration detention center for six months and faces possible deportation to Iran, his attorney told Iran International on Friday.
A top commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel came as a surprise to them, its Hezbollah allies and even the Palestinian group's political leaders.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that Tehran can no longer serve as the country’s capital, citing a worsening water crisis that has depleted key reservoirs serving the metropolis.
Protests against university authorities and gripped several campuses across Iran, according to videos sent to Iran International, pointing to widespread anxiety among students which stopped short of overtly political grievances.
Iran’s Expediency Council has agreed to conditionally join a United Nations convention aimed at preventing and criminalizing the financing of terrorism, the body’s spokesperson said on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly address to take a “victory lap” on Iran, but an analyst warns Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic ambitions remain unresolved.
The death of a female Iranian political prisoner in hospital following a series of seizures has sparked outrage from Iran's two Nobel laureates and right groups who have labeled her death a state-sponsored murder.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a message marking the anniversary of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war that martyrdom is the reward of struggle, whether in that conflict or in more recent battles.
Seven years after Donald Trump quit the nuclear deal, his duel with Ali Khamenei looks lopsided: the US president spoke from New York with renewed leverage, while Iran’s leader replied in taped defiance that evinced more strain than authority.
Senior Iranian officials highlighted what they called intelligence successes and the urgency of backing armed groups against their arch-foe Israel on Wednesday, a day after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered a defiant speech.
Dozens of Iranian lawmakers have called for a fundamental shift in the country’s defense policy, urging authorities to consider building a nuclear weapon as a deterrent, Iranian media reported on Monday.
Viral videos of women dancing unveiled in Iranian concerts have reignited debate over whether the apparent social opening is genuine or contrived by a ruling system facing external military pressure and domestic discontent.
The Israeli military's Persian spokesperson hit back at Iran's assertion that the world was beginning to understand Israel's crimes, countering that the Islamic Republic has carried out crimes daily since its inception.
Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on Thursday to stop sanctioned Iranian officials from entering the United States for next week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York.
Former president Hassan Rouhani could face the death penalty if charges against him are proven in court, an Iranian lawmaker said on Wednesday, reviving threats against an architect of a 2015 nuclear deal loathed by hardliners.
Three years after the killing of Mahsa "Jina" Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police, and in the shadow of the Islamic Republic’s recent 12-day war with Israel, the outlines of a durable social transformation are clear.
An association of independent Iranian filmmakers has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to overhaul how it accepts films from countries under authoritarian rule, warning that the current system legitimizes state-controlled cinema bodies.
The Islamic Republic’s mass expulsions of Afghan migrants have not eased Iran’s economic strain nor slowed soaring bread prices, the hardline Kayhan newspaper, overseen by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote on Wednesday.