The US Treasury on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 38 individuals and companies from Iran and China it accused of advancing Iran’s military procurement including surface-to-air missiles and US-manufactured helicopter parts.
Iran’s Expediency Council has agreed to conditionally join a United Nations convention aimed at preventing and criminalizing the financing of terrorism, the body’s spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Tehran is facing an escalating water crisis as dammed reservoirs drop to critical lows, a senior sanitation official said, with rainfall and dam inflows reduced by nearly half leaving most of the capital’s reservoirs nearly depleted.
Iran’s Guardian Council on Wednesday approved a bill imposing harsher penalties for espionage and collaboration with Israel, the United States and other “hostile states,” clearing the way for the law to be enacted once signed by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Jailed Georgian opposition leaders have accused the ruling Georgian Dream party of forging closer ties with Iran and urged Britain to expand sanctions on its allies, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.
At least 26 students have died in 13 accidents involving university buses across Iran over the past decade, the daily Ham-Mihan reported on Wednesday, reviving concerns about road safety and vehicle standards.
Iran’s deepening water emergency is straining both cities and rural communities, with one of Tehran’s key reservoirs taken offline and the once-vast Lake Urmia reduced to a salt desert, forcing migration and sparking deadly disputes over dwindling supplies.
Boeing is set to receive a contract worth up to $123 million to replace the 14 massive bunker-buster bombs expended during June’s US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday,citing a Pentagon budget document and three people familiar with the matter.
Iran’s pharmaceutical sector is facing delays of four to six months in the allocation of foreign currency for importing raw materials, industry officials said, warning the hold-ups risk disrupting the drug supply chain.
The United States on Wednesday accused Iran of gross human rights violations following the deaths of three women in prison, the deteriorating condition of an imprisoned activist on hunger strike, and the looming execution of a Kurdish political prisoner.
An Iranian remake of Love Island has exploded online, sparking fierce debate about taboos, personal freedom and the responsibilities of new media.
A new investigation has revealed how Iranian security forces relied on global supply chains and intermediary companies to obtain weapons later turned on protesters during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising.
Four Iranian directors are competing in the Academy Awards Best International Feature Film category this year, each representing a different country, with a shortlist of finalists due to be announced on March 2.
Once relegated to the world of academic social science, the term "paradigm shift" has gained traction in Iran's political discourse after a punishing 12-day war with Israel and the United States exposed the country's weakness.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned restrictions imposed by Iran’s judiciary on media coverage of European-triggered international sanctions imposed on Iran over the weekend.
US members of Congress on Tuesday tabled the bipartisan Seized Iranian Arms Transfer Authorization (SEIZE Act), a measure designed to fast-track the transfer of confiscated Iranian weapons to unspecified US partners.
Armored and military vehicles were deployed across Zahedan and other cities in Iran’s Sistan-Baluchistan province on Tuesday as authorities tightened security for the third anniversary of the September 30, 2022 Bloody Friday killings, local outlet Haalvsh and residents said.
Curbs to prenatal screenings and abortions in Iran’s 2021 Youth Population law have contributed to the doubling of Down syndrome births, according to a report by Shargh newspaper.
One thing unchanged by the return of UN sanctions is Tehran’s internal discord, with hardliners and moderates battling it out over decisions ultimately taken elsewhere.
The United States deported a planeload of over 100 Iranians to Tehran in one of the Trump administration’s starkest migrant returns to a country with severe rights concerns, marking a rare act of cooperation with Iran after months of talks, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.
Iranian operatives posing as the manager of an Israeli rapper attempted to lure the 17-year-old daughter of firebrand National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir into an online meeting, Israel's security agency said.