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Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday said that reducing tensions with the United States through negotiations was a matter of national interest.

The United States will ensure that foreign visitors pose no threat to its national security, the State Department told Iran International when asked whether the Iranian delegation would be issued visas to attend this year's UN General Assembly in New York.

Europe’s move to trigger the so-called snapback mechanism has sparked an online storm in Iran, ranging from despair and anger to calls for war, regime change, and nuclear weapons.

Hamas armed wing spokesperson Abu Ubaida was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Sunday.

Iran said the Israeli airstrike that killed Houthi Prime Minister Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi and several cabinet members in Sanaa would draw a response from its regional allies, calling the attack a war crime aimed at silencing Yemen’s support for Gaza.

More than 100 prisoners accused of spying for Israel are facing imminent execution in Iran after the bombing of Tehran’s Evin prison in June, lawyers and survivors told The Sunday Times.

Iran expelled more than 1.8 million undocumented migrants who are mainly Afghans over the past year, an interior ministry official said on Sunday, adding that at least 800,000 more must leave under the government’s removal plan.

President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June without alerting US diplomats, leaving them unable to answer questions from foreign governments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

Senior Iranian officials have admitted in private meetings that Washington ignored at least 15 messages from Iran seeking renewed negotiations, Iran International has learned, as Tehran scrambles to head off the reimposition of UN sanctions.

Israel must prepare for another round of confrontation with Iran and ensure that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be killed in the next campaign, former defense minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday, over two months after the archenemies' 12-day war.

Israel managed to pinpoint the location of Iran’s top authorities during June’s 12-day war by hacking the mobile phones carried by their bodyguards, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing Iranian and Israeli officials.

Yemen’s Houthi rebels confirmed on Saturday that their prime minister, Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi, and several ministers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the capital, Sanaa.

An attack by Israeli-linked hackers on Iran's top cryptocurrency exchange amid a 12-day war in June focused their targeting on accounts held by officials and their so-called hot and cold wallets, a source told Iran International on Friday.

Eight people were arrested on suspicion of attempting to pass sensitive information about military officials and strategic sites to Israel’s Mossad, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced on Saturday.

A Yale University course on US-Iran relations features former US diplomat Robert Malley as instructor and lists guest speakers with ties to the Islamic Republic, according to an op-ed published by the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).

A day after three European states triggered a UN mechanism that reimposes international sanctions on Iran, the move appeared to wrongfoot Tehran's establishment despite months of warnings.

The sands of time fall swiftly through the glass, and with each passing day the Islamic Republic of Iran is borne closer to the fateful hour: 18 October 2025, when a 2015 nuclear deal finally expires.

Below is a transcript of Iranian lawyer, activist and Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi's remarks in a wide-ranging conversation with Iran International's Eye for Iran podcast.

Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi told Eye for Iran that the Islamic Republic was not long for this world and that the Iranian people must rally together to uproot what she called a corrupt and violent system to win a brighter future.

Iranian authorities denied reports that Saeed Toosi, a Qur’an reciter accused of sexually abusing underage boys, was shot in the city of Mashhad on Friday.

A British couple detained in Iran since January were “suddenly whisked” into a courtroom in Tehran on Wednesday without prior notice or a lawyer of their choosing, according to a report by Sky News citing their family.