Many malnourished children in Iran’s rural and nomadic schools set out on long morning walks without breakfast, leaving some to collapse from weakness during school line-ups and unable to learn during long school days, Shargh newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The US State Department has dismissed an Iranian-American press officer after internal disputes over how to characterize Israeli policies in Gaza, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing US officials and documents it reviewed.
Authorities in the central Iranian city of Isfahan have begun seizing homes and assets from members of the Bahá’í religious minority by text message—an unprecedented move a community spokesperson called “economic strangulation” that has mostly targeted women.
Tehran on Wednesday accused Washington of seeking through diplomacy what it failed to achieve with military strikes, suggesting that talks with the United States have not yet reached a “mature stage.”
Moderates’ call for an overhaul of Iran’s political order has drawn fierce conservative backlash, with some critics invoking reformist appeals of 2003 that ended in bans, prison, and exile.
The G7 Non-Proliferation Directors Group on Wednesday called on Iran to avoid escalatory action and to cooperate with the UN nuclear watchdog.
A reformist-leaning Iranian Telegram channel on Wednesday published the names of 64 women it said are jailed for political reasons, challenging Iran's judiciary chief who said no more than five such detainees exist.
The extent of damage from recent US strikes on Iran’s Fordow centrifuges remains uncertain, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, with experts questioning President Donald Trump’s assertion that the site was completely obliterated.
Iran’s communications minister confirmed on Wednesday that widespread disruptions to GPS and internet services were linked to “security considerations” and said raising tariffs for mobile operators had become unavoidable to sustain services.
An Iranian lawmaker warned that Tehran would resume war with Israel and withdraw from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) if European powers trigger the so-called “snapback” mechanism that would reinstate UN sanctions on Iran.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday that US and European unilateralism was unbearable as he met Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, where the two allies signed 12 cooperation documents and a joint statement.
An Iranian-linked network used naval mortgages to disguise billions of dollars in oil shipments to China from Iran, Venezuela and Russia between 2019 and 2023, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.
Iran’s former intelligence minister Mahmoud Alavi warned that domestic injustices and political exclusion risk eroding national cohesion, saying Iranians should not be treated as if unity is only demanded in wartime.
A warehouse disguised as an industrial facility in Shahin Shahr, Isfahan, is being used as a secret prison where hundreds of Iranian inmates are held in inhuman conditions under the management of a Revolutionary Guards cooperative, the Iran Human Rights Society said on Tuesday.
Iran’s state-affiliated Farhikhtegan newspaper warned on Wednesday that Tehran should prepare for “potential threats from its northern borders” following the US-brokered Armenia-Azerbaijan deal to develop the Zangezur corridor.
US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that both he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be considered “war heroes” for their roles in the attacks on Iran that he said destroyed its nuclear program.
Iran’s defense minister said on Wednesday that the country has developed a new generation of missiles with greater capabilities than those used in the recent 12-day conflict with Israel, and would deploy them in the event of further hostilities.
A reformist call to suspend uranium enrichment, release political prisoners, and curb the Revolutionary Guards’ power has intensified debate over Iran’s future at a moment of heightened pressure.
A section of Tehran’s largest cemetery holding executed dissidents from the early 1980s has been turned into a parking lot, Iranian officials have confirmed.
Even without open war, Israel and Iran are locked in a psychological battle—one marked by devastating Israeli intelligence strikes and more modest but highly publicized Iranian attempts to recruit and infiltrate the Jewish state.
Iran’s economy is reeling from an acute labor shortage following the mass deportation of undocumented Afghan migrants, with key industries such as construction and agriculture struggling to function.