Israel was preparing a final wave of attacks aimed at toppling Iran’s ruling system when US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire, The Washington Post reported, citing Israeli and American officials involved in the operation.
Tehran has begun installing loudspeakers in major city squares to help inform the public during emergencies when authorities cut internet access, a city council member said on Saturday.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday called for the return of Iranians living abroad and urged coordination between the judiciary and intelligence services to ease concerns, despite past detentions of returnees.
Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah, told Politico that at least 50,000 government and military insiders have registered with his defection platform to help topple the Islamic Republic.
Nine people, including three assailants, were killed and 20 others wounded in an armed attack on a courthouse in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.
The defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Britain hit out on Friday at what they called Iran's rising use of the death penalty and ongoing repression of women, girls and human rights defenders.
A 25-year-old transgender woman, Sogand Pakdel, was shot in the head by her own uncle in an alleged honor killing at a family wedding near Shiraz in southern Iran last month.
The legacy of a 12-day war with Israel which ended last month will likely be yet more economic hardship, deteriorating living standards and intensifying public distrust.
Israel’s attack on Damascus may unintentionally clear a path for its arch-foe Iran to regain influence in war-torn Syria, warns Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Relations.
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is facing an intense backlash over his government’s endorsement of a fast-tracked bill that critics say threatens freedom of expression and targets dissent.
Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday described Israel's killing of top military commanders and scientists in a war last month as a heavy blow but insisted Tehran's arch-enemy failed in its goal to weaken Tehran.
Iran challenged European powers over their threat to renew UN sanctions during nuclear talks in Istanbul on Friday, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, in the first negotiations since Israeli and US attacks last month.
The triggering of international sanctions on Iran threatened by Europe could unleash a cascade of new challenges on the country's energy sector, from shrinking oil exports, blocked payments, halted infrastructure upgrades and deeper isolation from global markets.
Iran has signaled readiness to resume technical-level discussions with the UN nuclear watchdog, though IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said Friday that any planned visit would not yet involve inspectors.
Iran’s domestically made Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite was successfully launched into orbit on Friday aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket, Iranian media reported, in what marks Tehran’s second space-related operation this week.
Iran pushed back Friday on the prospect of extending a UN resolution tied to the 2015 nuclear deal, as it resumed direct talks with Britain, France and Germany for the first time since Israeli and US strikes on its territory.
Britain, France and Germany are prepared to delay a looming UN deadline to reimpose international sanctions on Iran if Tehran agrees to resume talks with Washington and cooperate with UN nuclear inspectors, Western diplomats told the Financial Times.
Water levels in Tehran’s reservoirs have dropped to the lowest levels in years, research by Iran International based on satellite images from the European Union’s Sentinel program shows.
The Islamic Republic will not easily submit to a challenge and will fight to preserve its rule, Republican Congressman Darrell Issa of California said in an interview with Iran International.
A senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and aide to the IRGC’s chief said the 12-day war with Israel ended with an absolute win for Tehran, adding Iran could have carried on the fight for years if necessary.
Officials in Tehran blame drought and public overuse for Iran’s worst water shortage in living memory, but the crisis stems from decades of mismanagement, short-sighted policy and institutional denial.