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.
Snapback sanctions on Iran will be triggered at the end of this month, French President Emmanuel Macron said in an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Thursday.
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.
Pentagon budget documents seeking urgent new funding show that the US has fired around $500 million worth of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missiles to defend Israel, primarily during its June war with Iran.
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.
Three years after the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody and subsequent protests which were quashed with deadly force, the mood among Iranians has only darkened, with many pointing to hardships that increasingly shape daily life.
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.
European states at the center of a sanctions drama with Tehran due for a finale next month deemed an Iranian proposal to gain a reprieve insufficient and overly demanding, a Wall Street Journal reporter said on Thursday.
The country faces conditions similar to wartime following Israeli and US airstrikes on its nuclear facilities, Iran’s nuclear chief said on Wednesday, warning that inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency would not fully resume without new safeguards.
Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi could be on shaky ground, with reformists pressing for his replacement by former Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, according to a prominent conservative commentator in Tehran.
Iran hemorrhages the value of about four out every five barrels of oil it manages to export, a former senior US Treasury official told Iran International, as sanctions forced funds to be lost in corrupt smuggling networks.
Iran-aligned media and online networks joined Russia- and China-linked actors in pushing false or inflammatory narratives after US conservative activist Charlie Kirk was shot dead earlier this month according to US officials and outside researchers.
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.
France has selected Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature category, giving the exiled filmmaker a path to Hollywood that Tehran was unlikely to offer.
Iran has officially selected murky moral drama ‘Cause of Death: Unknown’ as its official submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards due to be announced on March 2.
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.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi praised Iranian civil society on the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, saying victims' families have kept the pursuit of justice alive by turning grief into a force for change.
Iran’s top security official said on Wednesday that Tehran and Riyadh had held discussions on defense cooperation during talks in the Saudi capital, while the United States and Saudi Arabia concluded their largest-ever counter-drone exercise in the region.
Iran executed political prisoner Babak Shahbazi on Wednesday, state-affiliated media reported, saying he had been convicted of spying for Israel.
An Iranian court has sentenced Reza Seghati, the former head of the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan province, to 100 lashes and exile in connection with a widely publicized same-sex scandal that cost him his post.
Time is running out to avert a nuclear crisis, Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment said, describing Iran's nuclear program as a complex file where diplomacy is limited, military strikes are insufficient, and Europe’s snapback of UN sanctions risks sparking fresh conflict.
Life in Iran feels suspended, with many convinced war will return and unable to plan for the future beyond how to endure it when it comes.
Iran is awash in voices claiming to speak for its people: state loyalists, opposition figures and self-styled experts of every stripe drowning out the non-extreme yet critical voices with their din.
