Ali Shamkhani, a senior advisor to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, warned on Wednesday that internal divisions could damage Iran’s stability, speaking as a leaked video of his daughter’s wedding stirred anger over Iran’s ruling establishment.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has signed into law the country’s conditional accession to the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism (CFT), approving it only within the limits of Iran’s constitution and domestic legislation.
Iran’s establishment is bracing for renewed public unrest as UN sanctions squeeze an already fragile economy, Reuters reported, citing officials and experts warning that the government’s options to avert crisis are narrowing.
The political storm unleashed over a leaked video depicting the daughter of Iran's ex-security chief in a revealing wedding dress shows no sign of calming, with claims of Israeli cyberwarfare pitted against suspicions of skullduggery within the ruling elite.
Tehran may be preparing for confrontation rather than calm, if the recent remarks of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are any indication, preferring the uncertainties of further conflict over meeting US peace demands seen as humiliating.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio urged Baghdad to swiftly disarm Iran-backed militias in a phone call with Iraq's prime minister on Tuesday, accusing the Shi'ite groups of diverting the Arab nation’s resources to Tehran’s benefit.
The return of UN sanctions has deepened Tehran’s isolation and tested Beijing’s pragmatic balancing act in a region shaken by Donald Trump’s new peace plan and the 12-day war between Iran and Israel.
Many Iranian journalists and activists abroad have begun to treat state intimidation and harassment as part of daily life, UN Special Rapporteur on Iran Mai Sato said on Tuesday, criticizing the persistence of what she called Iran's transnational repression.
US Vice-President JD Vance said on Tuesday that the United States is committed to diplomacy for the foreseeable future as its strategy to deprive Iran of nuclear weapons.
Tehran’s behavior after the June war with Israel reflects a state of suspended decision-making—a fragile equilibrium that may nevertheless endure, sustained by continuing control and the absence of any obvious alternatives.
A six-year-old boy was killed in southwest Iran after police fired on a family car and abandoned the wounded at the scene, local sources told Iran International, suggesting that officers’ failure to take him to hospital and leaving his family by the roadside led to his death.
Iran would unleash a devastating response to any assault on its territory, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Pakpour, said on Tuesday.
Iran’s government spokesperson said on Tuesday that the administration does not believe coercion can restore compliance with Iran’s hijab laws, amid renewed debate over enforcement and the deployment of tens of thousands of volunteers in Tehran.
Passengers on Tehran’s subway shouted anti-government slogans on Tuesday after a major service disruption left commuters stranded between stations, according to videos sent to Iran International.
Iranian national Mahdieh Esfandiari has been put forward in a prisoner exchange arrangement with France, Deputy Foreign Minister Vahid Jalalzadeh said on Tuesday.
An outlet affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) described the mass No Kings demonstrations across the United States as a “prelude to civil war,” portraying the rallies as evidence of deepening political and social divisions.
Tehran’s catalogue of political feuds appears to have grown with the dwindling presence of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei following the June war with Israel—a trend that, Iranian scholars warn, could push a country already rife with discontent to the brink.
The United States will not allow Tehran to possess nuclear weapons, a White House official told Iran International on Monday, hours after Iran's Supreme Leader suggested Washington has no authority to decide what Tehran does with its nuclear capabilities.
Despite years of official rhetoric about a “strategic partnership,” new data show that Russia has slipped from Iran’s list of main trading partners.
New construction has been detected at an Iranian nuclear site once suspected of links to a weapons program and destroyed in an Israeli airstrike last year, a Washington-based think tank said on Monday, citing satellite imagery.
An Iranian protester shot during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising is living in constant pain with more than 80 lead pellets lodged in his body — and now fears deportation from Turkey to Iran, where he could face severe punishment.