Israel’s comptroller published a report on Wednesday outlining a series of government shortcomings in responding to civilian needs during the 12-day war with Iran and called for fixing gaps in emergency response.
Iran’s inventory of highly enriched uranium is buried under rubble following US and Israeli strikes on the country's nuclear facilities in June, Iranian foreign minister said on Thursday.
The threat from Iran and its regional allies has sharply increased in recent year, senior officials in Jordan told Iran International, in a setback to decades of stability in the Western-allied kingdom.
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.
Conservative organizer and activist Charlie Kirk, who was killed by an unknown assassin on Wednesday, had praised the Iranian-American community and supported US attacks on the Islamic Republic in June while generally supporting its foe Israel.
As the third anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini’s death in Iranian morality police custody approaches, activist Mercedeh Shahinkar says only a mass uprising, not dialogue nor piecemeal reform, can win genuine change.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Wednesday cast doubt on a potential opening in the nuclear standoff, appearing to undermine the deal he had signed just a day earlier with IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi in Cairo.
The United States offered a reward of up to $15 million for information to disrupt financial networks of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its Qods Force, the State Department said on Wednesday.
The United States on Wednesday urged Iran to take “immediate and concrete action” to meet its nuclear safeguards obligations, warning the IAEA board may need to act if Tehran fails to cooperate.
Elizabeth Tsurkov, an Israeli-Russian academic abducted in Baghdad in March 2023, was freed this week in what Iran’s Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim described as a prisoner exchange.
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi is “a Mossad agent” who should be arrested if he visits Tehran, Iranian lawmaker Javad Hosseini-Kia said on Wednesday, as Grossi and Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi signed a cooperation deal in Cairo.
Israel’s strike in Doha targeting senior Hamas leaders has given Tehran a chance to present itself as the true defender of Arab sovereignty and Palestinian resistance.
An Iranian lawmaker said on Wednesday the country should pursue building a nuclear weapon since it already paid a heavy price for its nuclear activities in a 12-day conflict with Israel and the United States in June.
Iran’s military on Wednesday accused the United States of involvement in an Israeli attack on Hamas in Qatar the previous day despite public denials by its two foes.
France, Britain and the United Kingdom on Wednesday said they were alarmed by the lack of clarity on Iran's stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium and that Tehran must show not claim if it wanted to avoid more sanctions.
Tehran’s optimism about fresh Chinese and Russian investment may be more aspirational than realistic.
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.
Iran said on Wednesday its new agreement with the UN nuclear watchdog does not currently allow inspectors into nuclear sites and will only move to define any access in later talks, adding the accord’s survival depends on Western powers refraining from restoring UN sanctions.
A former senior Iranian traffic police official said there is no legal ban on issuing motorcycle licenses to women, but a regulatory gap has left them unable to ride legally, pointing to debate in parliament where some lawmakers have raised concerns over hijab compliance.
The head of the UN nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday that its new deal with Iran covers inspections at all of the country’s declared nuclear sites, including those hit by Israeli and US strikes in June, in what he called a step in the right direction toward restoring safeguards.
Tuesday’s strike on the leadership of the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas in Doha aims to intimidate Tehran but also sows unease among Arab states, Israeli and American experts told Iran International.