Iran’s new agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog contains no clause preventing the reimposition of UN sanctions on Tehran under the snapback mechanism, an ultraconservative lawmaker said Sunday, citing the text of the deal he said he had reviewed.
Proposals to end uranium enrichment and halt the country’s missile program were misguided and unrealistic, said a senior member of the office of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei amid intensified internal debate over the country's policies.
Israel’s Mossad has sufficient knowledge of the location of Iran’s highly enriched uranium stockpiles and could intervene if Tehran attempts to use them, The Jerusalem Post reported on Sunday citing unnamed sources.
Iranian authorities have shut down a cafe-restaurant in northern Tehran for allegedly serving alcohol and permitting dancing, state media reported, the latest in a string of closures targeting businesses accused of violating public morality rules.
Iranian dissident filmmaker Jafar Panahi says the death in custody of Mahsa Amini in 2022 spurred a generation in Iran that no longer remains silent in the face of repression.
Senior Iranian officials are using the recent Israeli attacks on Doha to justify calls for the formation of a unified military front among Muslim nations as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) gathers for an emergency summit in Qatar on Monday.
More than any other act in the post-October 7, 2023 world, the Israeli airstrike on a busy residential neighborhood of Doha on Tuesday has the potential to upend prevailing assumptions on Persian Gulf security.
An Iranian lawmaker suggested on Thursday that Qatar expel US forces and allow Iran’s Revolutionary Guards to deploy missiles on its territory to counter Israel.
Iran’s widening electricity shortage is the root cause of disruptions in mobile phone services, adding to a cascade of crises hitting the country’s infrastructure, a lawmaker said on Sunday.
Tehran on Sunday rejected a joint statement by G7 members and partners accusing Iran of assassination plots, kidnappings, and harassment of dissidents overseas.
Iranian authorities are investigating fresh details in two of 173 cases of disputed land allocations in Damavand and Shemiranat, Tehran province, judicial and semi-official news agencies reported on Sunday.
Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentences of six men accused of involvement in the killing of a Basij militia member during the 2022 protests in Tehran’s Ekbatan neighborhood, their lawyer said ahead of the uprising's third anniversary.
Thousands of people in Iran face the risk of execution amid what Amnesty International on Wednesday called a deepening execution crisis, with death sentences handed down after unfair trials and on vaguely worded charges such as enmity against God and corruption on earth.
Young middle-class Iranians are getting increasingly anxious about slipping into poverty, despite salaries that once signaled stability but now fail to cover even routine expenses, Iran’s reformist Shargh daily warned in a weekend report.
Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had privately pressed President Donald Trump in the Oval Office not to launch a war against Iran, even while donors aligned with him opposed that stance, US right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson said.
Iranian athletes competing abroad face conflicting pressures: the state demands public displays of loyalty, while opponents expect defiance.
A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader warned on Saturday that Azerbaijan would damage the image of Shiites if it proceeds with plans to host a major rabbinical meeting.
The uptake of Iranian oil at Chinese ports hit highs last seen before Donald Trump reentered the White House in early 2025 and revived his so-called maximum pressure campaign, tanker-tracking data obtained by Iran International reveals.
Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said on Friday they had seized $584,741 in cryptocurrency from an Iranian national tied to the Revolutionary Guards’ drone manufacturing program.
Talks on a prisoner swap between Iran and France were in their final stage, state media reported late Thursday, and potentially involve French detainees in Iran and an Iranian woman jailed in Paris.
A onetime Iranian security chief whom a lawsuit accuses of torturing anti-Shah dissidents transferred more than $20 million abroad before fleeing to the United States in 1978, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing leaked diplomatic documents.
Families in Iran are voicing growing concerns over government policies that impose mandatory tuition fees even for public schools, making it increasingly difficult for parents to afford education for their children.
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.
