An Iranian lawmaker on Wednesday accused senior officials of nepotism and corruption after a 20-year-old student set himself on fire when municipal workers moved to demolish his family’s food kiosk.
The intelligence wing of Iran's Revolutionary Guards launched a security operation targeting 400 people linked to Iran Academia, an online platform offering free Farsi courses in social sciences and humanities, state media reported on Wednesday.
As Iran’s capital Tehran endures its worst water crisis in living memory, few recent global cases offer clearer lessons than Cape Town in South Africa in 2018.
Iranian state TV is facing backlash for criticizing a footballer and his wife as immoral even after it was mute about a scandal over the daughter of a top official's revealing wedding dress last month.
The United States on Tuesday announced sweeping sanctions on 32 individuals and companies across eight countries it accused of helping Iran rebuild its ballistic missile and drone programs after setbacks sustained during a June conflict with Israel.
Iran’s political establishment is once again flirting changing laws to allow women to ride motorcycles even as women and girls have already spent years doing it without waiting for an official green light.
Iran has yet to allow UN inspectors to visit nuclear sites hit by Israeli and US airstrikes in June, the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a confidential report on Wednesday, saying verification of Tehran’s enriched uranium “long overdue.”
A confidential survey has found that more than nine in ten Iranians are unhappy with the country’s direction, the Tehran-based news site Rouydad24 reported on Wednesday citing an unnamed polling organization.
A Guards-linked outlet has criticized an Iranian standards official for sitting at the same roundtable as an Israeli representative at last month’s ISO meeting in Rwanda, warning that such contact could carry legal penalties.
The son of a British couple jailed in Iran on spying charges has implored the UK government to secure their release before Christmas, the BBC reported on Tuesday.
A water shortage in Iran is becoming more widespread with people reporting pressure drops and low-quality water even as Tehran officials deny reports of rationing.
Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told the Washington Post his government has expelled Iranian and Hezbollah forces from Syria and is ready for a new phase of ties with the United States.
Iran’s nuclear negotiations have long served to buy time for building atomic weapons, prominent Tehran-based political commentator Sadegh Zibakalam said in a debate published on Tuesday.
Israel's Defense Ministry is seeking a record high $45 billion allocation in the 2026 budget, Israeli financial daily Calcalist reported on Tuesday, including a large sum to counter Iranian drones and missiles.
Conflicting narratives from Iranian officialdom on negotiations with the United States may indicate a sort of organized chaos aimed at prolonging diplomatic theater without any real intention of reaching a resolution.
Two Iranians deported in an unprecedented deportation flight from the United States to Tehran in September were quoted by the New York Times on Tuesday as saying they were abused during their ordeal and feared for their lives.
More than 270 Iranian and non-Iranian scholars and civil society activists on Tuesday signed an open letter that denounces the recent arrests and summons of prominent leftist intellectuals in Iran, calling the detentions arbitrary and unlawful.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement said they would pause their attacks against Israel and maritime shipping in the Red Sea but warned they will resume combat if the fragile Gaza ceasefire collapses.
The Islamic Republic’s embassy in Lebanon on Tuesday fired back at remarks made by a top US sanctions official who urged Beirut to cut Tehran's funding to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Iraq’s parliamentary election on Tuesday unfolded under the shadow of foreign influence from the United States and Iran which have for two decades vied over the future of the war-battered Arab nation.
Homayoun Ershadi, one of Iran’s most internationally recognized actors who rose from a career in architecture to global movie fame through Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry and later The Kite Runner, has died at the age of 78.
The intelligence division of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Tuesday it had dismantled what it described as a spy network directed by US and Israeli spy agencies inside Iran.
A 20-year-old man in Ahvaz in southwest Iran who set himself on fire as municipal workers moved to demolish his family’s food kiosk last week died on Tuesday, Iranian media reported.
Thousands of contract workers at the South Pars gas complex in southern Iran held a large protest on Tuesday demanding better working conditions, fair pay, and the removal of private labor contractors, Iranian labor outlets reported.
President Masoud Pezeshkian told parliament on Tuesday that Iran’s cohesion and stability hinge on the Supreme Leader’s security, warning that an attack on him during the June war could have provoked internal clashes posing a greater threat than any external enemy.
The efficiency and affordability of Iran’s combat drones have reshaped the regional military balance and challenged Western air superiority, a senior adviser to the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Aerospace Force said on Tuesday.
Iran has joined two technical treaties under the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to align its patent and trademark classification systems with global standards, a move that still does not place the country within the international copyright protection system.
The US is trying to set up military bases near Iran’s southern port on the Gulf of Oman to tighten control over regional energy and trade routes, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday.
It’s eleven o’clock at night in Tehran when I open the phone lines for my live call-in show, The Program. Friday night is when I ask Iranians to do something that has become almost subversive: not just to talk, but to listen.
Iran accused the United States of sending mixed signals on reviving nuclear talks, saying the June strikes on its nuclear facilities war undermined ongoing diplomacy and efforts toward a peaceful agreement.