
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said Western powers, led by the United States, exert pressure on nations — including in Latin America — to expand influence and control resources, adding that the “central goal” of such pressure on Iran is to force an identity shift.
The head of Iran's state broadcaster conceded the network hurt its credibility with a falsely report on the downing of an Israeli F-35 fighter jet which cited an official source during a June war.
Iranian authorities are stepping up the use of courts and security agencies to target members of the Baha’i community through prison sentences, arbitrary detention and property seizures, the Baha’i International Community and Human Rights Watch said.
Attorney General Pam Bondi announced on Wednesday that US forces had seized a tanker for shipping oil from Venezuela and Iran, publishing footage of troops rappelling onto the vessel by helicopter.
A Baluch armed group said it carried out an attack on Iran's Revolutionary Guards personnel near Zahedan, a day after Iranian state media reported that several members had been killed during a border security mission in the restive southeast.

Ordinary Iranians are buckling under the physical and psychological strain of surging prices, toxic air and deepening food and medicine insecurity, officials and experts in Tehran have warned.

Employees of Iran’s welfare organization and contract workers from the oil, gas and power sectors gathered outside parliament in Tehran on Wednesday to protest low wages and insecure employment, local labor groups said.

At least five thousand contract workers at the South Pars energy hub in Asaluyeh staged one of the largest labor protests in Iran in years on Tuesday, defying heavy security pressure and warnings from authorities.

Authorities in Iran have blocked the Instagram pages of two female singers as part of an intensifying crackdown on women’s public performances and online presence.

A dramatic cultural opening is sweeping across Iran, not as a government reform but as a bottom-up movement driven by a young generation that is less willing to be intimidated by the state, Iran analyst Omid Memarian told Eye for Iran.

US Senator John Fetterman advocated attacking Iran again if it resumes uranium enrichment, aligning himself with President Donald Trump and cementing his status as a leading foreign policy hawk among Democrats.

A senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blessed an elaborate plot to overthrow the Islamic Republic during a June war.

The mood in Tehran appears to be shifting from a sense of imminent danger that followed the June war to a more resigned belief that diplomacy with Washington is stuck in a strategic stalemate rather than a temporary lull.
Three Iranian satellites will be launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome on December 28, Iran’s Nour news agency reported, marking another step in Tehran’s expanding space program.
Iran’s presidential chief of staff said the government has begun revoking all forms of unfiltered internet access granted to select users – including senior officials – as scrutiny intensifies over privileged connections unavailable to the general public.
A fast-spreading wave of H3N2 influenza has left hospitals across Iran under pressure, with more than 100 deaths reported since mid-November – most involving unvaccinated patients, health authorities said on Thursday.

The Iran projected on social media these days—brunch parties, rooftop concerts, fashion shows—is real, but only as a tiny fragment of the country’s reality, where most ordinary people struggle to make ends meet.

This week marked the anniversary of a vast Berlin rally in October 2022 gathering tens of thousands filled in solidarity with Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement—a day that now feels almost impossibly distant.
Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence is intensifying efforts to recruit dissidents in Germany as informants by blackmailing their relatives back home, according to an investigation by the Die Welt newspaper.
A draft US defense budget for 2026 set to be mulled by Congress will for the first time condition aid for the Iraqi military on verifiable steps to rein in militias backed by Washington's Mideast arch-nemesis Tehran.
Mixmag, a leading electronic music magazine, has named Iranian DJ, producer and composer Nesa Azadikhah among its top DJs for 2025, noting her expanding role in electronic music and her support for Iranian artists.
Iran’s existing nuclear safeguards agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) does not account for wartime conditions and must be revised to protect national security, Behrouz Kamalvandi, spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said on Tuesday.