Iran's foreign minister on Monday said that there was still time for the West to solve its nuclear impasse with Iran through dialogue while the UN nuclear watchdog's head cited a "difficult" phase of talks with Tehran.
Iran’s natural gas exports to neighboring Iraq have fallen sharply over the past five months after US sanctions which long exempted the trade take hold.
Moderates are pushing for President Masoud Pezeshkian to meet Donald Trump at the United Nations in hopes of easing mounting pressure on Iran, but entrenched hardline opposition makes such a breakthrough highly unlikely.
Iran’s goal of achieving 8% economic growth, a key target of its seventh five-year development plan, faces steep hurdles, with economists warning that key drivers such as investment, productivity, and financing are faltering, the daily Samt reported on Monday.
Dozens of Iranian lawmakers have called for a fundamental shift in the country’s defense policy, urging authorities to consider building a nuclear weapon as a deterrent, Iranian media reported on Monday.
Mounting education costs in Iran are forcing growing numbers of children from low-income families out of school and into the workforce, a labor activist warned, as families say even public schools are demanding fees despite constitutional guarantees of free education.
Iran’s armed forces warned on Monday they are prepared to respond to any threat with overwhelming force, saying recent clashes showed the country could turn aggression into an opportunity to display regional and international power.
One hundred Mossad operatives were deployed inside Iran to install and operate smuggled heavy missile systems, which were used to disable missile launchers and air-defense batteries at the start of June’s 12-day war, according to a documentary by Israel’s Channel 13.
An investigative report by a Tehran daily documented dozens of cases of Iranian boys abused in schools, sports and transport, shedding light on a mostly underreported pattern compared to widespread accounts of girls’ abuse.
Iran's Shi'ite establishment promotes temporary marriage as a way to prevent illicit relationships. Yet even devout families often disapprove, associating the practice with prostitution and social shame.
The value of the US dollar surged to an unprecedented 1,060,000 rials in Iran’s free market on Sunday, setting a new all-time record as fears of renewed UN sanctions deepened.
Iran’s Ministry of Education introduced the recent 12-day war with Israel into school lessons with special content on the conflict to be included across all school levels in the new academic year, Education Minister Alireza Kazemi announced Sunday.
Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff accused Ecuador of supporting the United States and Israel after Quito designated the Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
US president Donald Trump on Saturday night boasted of ordering the bombing run that he said destroyed Iran’s enriched uranium stockpiles, praising American pilots for carrying out the long-planned mission.
Cooperation with the UN nuclear watchdog will be suspended if European states push ahead with reinstating United Nations sanctions, Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said on Saturday.
Two prisoners died in Iranian jails this week after being denied medical treatment, while a third inmate — a political prisoner recently transferred to a hospital — remains in critical condition.
Tehran conducted a successful test of an intercontinental missile late Thursday, an Iranian parliamentarian said, after videos shared online appeared to show trails of smoke from the launches arcing upward in the sky.
The UN Security Council’s decision not to lift sanctions on Iran has heightened the stakes for Tehran, with hardliners pushing for nuclear escalation, reformists urging engagement, and a public already strained by inflation.
Iran’s gas deficit will double in the next 15 years, reaching “terrifying” heights, a senior advisor to the president has warned.
Hossein Shariatmadari, the representative of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in the hardline daily Kayhan, has called for Iran to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) following the UN Security Council’s decision not to permanently lift sanctions.
Iran proposed retrieving its stockpile of near-bomb-grade uranium and diluting it to a lower purity in exchange for sanctions relief, according to media reports, in an offer European powers rejected earlier this week.