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Iranian authorities have opened judicial cases in recent weeks against Instagram users for liking posts critical of the Islamic Republic, pro bono legal group Dadban said on Wednesday.

The reported detention of two Iranian green card holders marks “a profound erosion of due process,” international human rights lawyer Gissou Nia told Iran International, saying it represents a growing threat to lawful residents.

An Iranian appeals court has upheld prison sentences and social restrictions for six Baha’i citizens in Alborz province on alleged charges of spreading propaganda against the state, Iran International has learned.

Afghans deported from Iran amid a continuing crackdown on undocumented migrants said authorities there tortured them but deprivation back home was so extreme they are determined to return, Sky News reported on Wednesday.

A senior Iranian lawmaker said on Wednesday that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had lifted all limits to the range of Iran’s missiles, signaling a potential major shift to Tehran's defense posture after a punishing June war.

Australia’s planned designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as as a terror group will be “targeted and appropriate," a spokesperson at the Attorney-General's Department told Iran International, meaning conscripts may be spared any punishments.

An 18-year-old French national acquitted by an Iranian court of charges he had spied for Israel has been freed, its foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that efforts continue to secure the release other detainees.

The head of Iran’s Basij domestic militia on Wednesday alleged that the recent renaming of the US Department of Defense to the Department of War signals that Iran and Israel are pursuing new wars.

Israel’s Shin Bet security agency said on Wednesday that it thwarted an Iranian operation to move a large cache of advanced weaponry into the occupied West Bank for planned attacks on Israeli targets.

Iranian health officials have confirmed a renewed outbreak of dengue fever in the southern province of Hormozgan, with more than 1,000 suspected cases and 50 confirmed infections, state media reported on Wednesday.

Iran’s minimum wage has increased each year in local-currency terms, but its dollar value has dropped sharply as the rial weakened, leaving workers effectively poorer despite nominal pay rises, labor reports and activists say.

Iran’s judiciary has indicted 17 foreign nationals accused of smuggling fuel after their tanker was seized in the Gulf of Oman in July, the head of Hormozgan province’s justice department said on Wednesday.

Expanding salt storms from the dried basin of Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran have forced residents to abandon nearby villages, damaged farmland and raised fears of long-term health risks, Iran’s Labor News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Iran summoned European ambassadors in Tehran on Wednesday to protest what it called interventionist and baseless remarks made in a joint statement by the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on its territorial claims and defense policies.

Australia has introduced legislation that would, for the first time, allow its government to designate foreign state entities -- including Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) -- as terrorist organizations.

Turkey’s accelerating move to replace Russian and Iranian pipeline gas with domestic production and US liquefied natural gas (LNG) could shrink Tehran’s last major European export market, Reuters reported on Wednesday.

The ruling to confiscate the National Iranian Oil Company’s last European headquarters is yet another sign of the country’s shrinking global footprint and deepening isolation.

Two years after Hamas-led October 7 attack on Israel, Daniel Lifshitz believes the tragedy that shattered his family was aided by Iran but insists peace, not vengeance, must define the future.

Iran's foreign minister faced criticism this week for accusing Israel of paying social media users to advance its agenda, after his intervention into an online spat on Mideast influence operations led to scrutiny of Iran's own social media maneuvers.

Iranian traders, economists and digital market participants are alarmed by new state curbs on stablecoin holdings, telling Iran International the Central Bank’s decision will choke savings and drive capital offshore amid the historic devaluation of rial.

Iran’s foreign minister on Tuesday said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had lied about Tehran's ambitions to put the United States in range of its missiles to dupe Washington into a new attack.