Iran's Shi'ite establishment promotes temporary marriage as a way to prevent illicit relationships. Yet even devout families often disapprove, associating the practice with prostitution and social shame.
The value of the US dollar surged to an unprecedented 1,060,000 rials in Iran’s free market on Sunday, setting a new all-time record as fears of renewed UN sanctions deepened.
Iran’s Ministry of Education introduced the recent 12-day war with Israel into school lessons with special content on the conflict to be included across all school levels in the new academic year, Education Minister Alireza Kazemi announced Sunday.
Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff accused Ecuador of supporting the United States and Israel after Quito designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
US president Donald Trump on Saturday night boasted of ordering the bombing run that he said destroyed Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles, praising American pilots for carrying out the long-planned mission.
Cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog will be suspended if European states push ahead with reinstating United Nations sanctions, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Saturday.
Two prisoners died in Iranian jails this week after being denied medical treatment, while a third inmate — a political prisoner recently transferred to a hospital — remains in critical condition.
Tehran conducted a successful test of an intercontinental missile late Thursday, an Iranian parliamentarian said, after videos shared online appeared to show trails of smoke from the launches arcing upward in the sky.
The UN Security Council’s decision not to lift sanctions on Iran has heightened the stakes for Tehran, with hardliners pushing for nuclear escalation, reformists urging engagement, and a public already strained by inflation.
Iran’s gas deficit will double in the next 15 years, reaching “terrifying” heights, a senior advisor to the president has warned.
Hossein Shariatmadari, the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the hardline daily Kayhan, has called for Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) following the UN Security Council’s decision not to permanently lift sanctions.
Iran proposed retrieving its stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium and diluting it to a lower purity in exchange for sanctions relief, according to media reports, in an offer European powers rejected earlier this week.
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.
A decisive UN Security Council vote setting Iran on course for the automatic return of pre-2015 sanctions has heightened tensions inside Tehran, as rival factions clash over strategy while officials strive to project a unified message abroad.
A UN Security Council resolution on whether to permanently lift UN sanctions on Iran was voted down on Friday, dealing a win for a European-led bid to reimpose them on September 28 over Iran's alleged nuclear non-compliance.
The US State Department on Friday condemned the Islamic Republic's execution of political prisoner Babak Shahbazi this week as proof of what it called Tehran's use of the death penalty to scotch opposition.
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.
Moderates in Tehran—often accused by rivals of weakening the system—are now accusing the hardliners of undermining the supreme leader's authority through escalating factional battles.
A video circulating on social media shows security guards clashing with visitors at the Marble Palace in Ramsar, after a hijab warning escalated into physical confrontation and police intervention.
The Foreign Policy Committee of the Flemish Parliament in Belgium has called on Iran’s ambassador to clarify the fate of Ahmadreza Djalali, the jailed Iranian-Swedish academic whose whereabouts have been unknown since June.
Almost 29 percent of registered general practitioners in Iran are not practicing medicine, according to figures cited by local media, which said the trend highlights waste in training costs and ongoing shortages of medical specialists.
Iran pulled a resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog’s annual conference that sought to prohibit attacks on nuclear facilities.
The UN Security Council will vote Friday morning on a draft resolution concerning the snapback of sanctions on Iran, a process initiated after European governments declared the country in significant non-performance of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Sea attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen closed the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat but enriched the Israeli state by diverting trade to a government-owned Mediterranean entrepot, the port's CEO told Iran International.
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally gave the green light for Israeli airstrikes in Syria against Iranian arms transfers to Lebanon's Hezbollah during Bashar al-Assad’s rule, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen reveals in his new memoir Sword of Freedom.
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.
Iran carried out missile tests around the capital Tehran on Thursday evening local time, a local official confirmed. A Revolutionary Guards-linked outlet and eyewitnesses reported images and video of the test on social media.
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.
Authorities in Tehran have shut down two cafe-restaurants over alleged violations including “serving alcohol, nudity, and mixed-gender dancing,” Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Fars news agency reported on Thursday.