Anthropic said Thursday that Iranian state-aligned and Iran-linked accounts used Claude in separate operations involving propaganda, targeting US naval forces, domestic surveillance and profiling people in Israel and the Jewish diaspora.

Lebanon was named in the first clause of the Islamabad memorandum, with Iran presenting itself as a guarantor of its territorial integrity. But repeated Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, especially Ali al-Taher, have exposed the limits of that guarantee.

The United States on Thursday sanctioned networks it said were helping Iran finance and support allied armed groups across Iraq, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.

Hardliners in Tehran are pressing for further military and nuclear escalation despite mounting economic pressure and a widening confrontation with the United States. Is it a reckless gamble, or a realistic response to Iran’s dwindling options?

Routine screenings and consultations for Iranian women can now cost more than two months of average pay, as healthcare prices rise much faster than wages and force some women to postpone preventive care.

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday as the US-Iran conflict widened across the region, while senior White House advisers reportedly warned President Donald Trump that the war could continue beyond the end of his term in January 2029.

British counter-terrorism police arrested two people in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service in a case linked to Iran, police said on Thursday.

A dispute over Iran’s proposed measures to combat foreign infiltration escalated Thursday, with a senior lawmaker accusing President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government of acting illegally after the cabinet opposed a parliamentary committee report on the controversial legislation.

Maryam Azimi, who has written of being driven blindfolded to court in Mashhad in an intelligence vehicle, thinking those were the last minutes of her life, introduced the new iPhone's camera technology at Apple's global launch on Tuesday.

Iran routed an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion through a China-based trade mechanism over the past year, using proceeds from oil sales to pay for Chinese goods and, at least once, contracts for military equipment, Reuters reported on Thursday.

Tehran’s governor has called for schools used by other state bodies to be returned before students begin the new academic year, months after military and security forces deployed at schools during the US-Israeli war.

The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors voted Wednesday to report Iran to the Security Council over breaches of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations, escalating a two-decade nuclear dispute amid an ongoing war and renewed Western pressure on Tehran.

Iran is putting two faces of its justice system on display: highly publicized acts of compassion for thousands of prisoners, alongside an execution campaign that has killed hundreds and continues to put protesters on death row.

Iranian authorities are holding back from enforcing mandatory hijab as extensively as they would like because of “war conditions,” a senior official said Wednesday, even as pressure grows for tougher enforcement.