Lebanon on Saturday strongly condemned the remarks made by a top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader about Beirut's decision to disarm Tehran-backed Hezbollah, warning the Islamic Republic against interfering in its internal affairs.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June in a way that limited the scope of the conflict and avoided a broader war.
The Financial Action Task Force has invited Islamic Republic representatives to attend talks in Spain aimed at ending a seven-year impasse over the country’s blacklisting, Iran’s economy minister said.
Iran and the United States could begin Norway-mediated talks in August, Iran’s state-run English-language newspaper Tehran Times reported on Friday, citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter.
Iran will stop the establishment of a US-backed transit corridor in the South Caucasus even without Moscow’s help, as it would endanger regional security and alter the geopolitical map, Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior adviser to Iran’s supreme leader, said on Saturday.
More than one million migrants were returned from Iran to Afghanistan over the past 100 days, including 450,000 from Tehran province, Tehran’s governor said on Saturday.
Over 40 days after a 12-day war with Israel left dozens of senior Revolutionary Guards dead, key command posts in Iran’s military remain unfilled, raising questions over the Islamic Republic’s operational cohesion.
Iran’s president said on Saturday that Israel’s attack on the country during the June 12-day war was carried out under US direction and in pursuit of Washington’s objectives.
Iran cautioned on Saturday that any foreign interference near its borders could undermine security in the South Caucasus after Armenia and Azerbaijan signed a US-brokered peace agreement.
The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel was the result of years of planning by Iran, Mohsen Mahdian, managing editor of the state-run Hamshahri daily, said on Friday in remarks published on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s official website.
A controversial post by hardline figure Saeed Jalili denigrating nuclear talks has triggered a rare public rebuke from within Iran’s security establishment—one that may signal his waning influence in Tehran’s evolving postwar leadership.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) on Friday condemned threats by the Islamic Republic against the families of journalists working for Iran International, BBC Persian and Radio Farda, calling the tactic “emotional hostage-taking”
The United States on Friday called the reappointment of veteran powerbroker Ali Larijani to lead Iran's Supreme National Security Council a step back to failed strategies, saying the Iranian people deserve forward-looking leadership.
Iran’s revamp of a top national security body signals a ruling system in decline, former US State Department official Len Khodorkovsky told Eye for Iran, calling it “pure theater” and likening it to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
When Iran's armed forces chief of staff declared this week that all Iranians are together in one battle trench, the rallying cry rang hollow with many Iranians bewildered by a punishing war last month and worsening standards of living.
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday condemned Israel’s planned military takeover of Gaza as part of a broader strategy to forcibly displace Palestinians, accusing the Jewish state of pursuing a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Israel established a network of Iranian dissidents and non-Iranian recruits over the course of years for its assassinations of senior officials in a June war and total destruction of Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses, according to a ProPublica investigation.
Iran is awash in voices claiming to speak for its people: state loyalists, opposition figures and self-styled experts of every stripe drowning out the non-extreme yet critical voices with their din.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) denied on Friday that its affiliate, the exiled opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), played any role in the assassinations of two figures involved in Iran’s nuclear program, in a statement sent to Iran International.
More than 600 political prisoners were transferred back to Tehran’s Evin Prison early Friday, jailed activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said, after being held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the June 23 Israeli missile strike that damaged the facility.
US President Donald Trump will host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday to sign a US-brokered peace agreement creating a transit corridor at Iran’s doorstep, Axios reported.