Iran’s ultra-hardliners have launched a new political party this month amid intensified factional rivalry following the June war with Israel and the return of UN sanctions. Here’s what we know so far about the New Islamic Civilization Party.
President Donald Trump on Monday said US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities in June “lifted a dark cloud” over the Middle East and paved the way for Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
Iran is the last obstacle to a new Middle East, US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said on Monday, calling for Syria’s reintegration and Lebanon’s break from Tehran-backed Hezbollah to secure what he called “a generation of cooperation.”
Tehran's establishment is defending former security chief Ali Shamkhani on privacy grounds after a video of his daughter’s wedding leaked online, angering many Iranians who say the elite shields itself while invading the privacy of ordinary citizens.
About 120,000 Iranians die each year from nutrition-related causes, an Iranian official said on Monday, as soaring food prices and declining consumption of key staples such as dairy, meat, fruits, and vegetables deepen the country’s public health crisis.
At least 1,500 engineering and technical faculty members have left Iran’s leading universities over the past five years, according to Karan Abri-Nia, secretary of the Iranian University Professors’ Trade Union.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dismissed US President Donald Trump’s claim that Washington had destroyed Iran’s nuclear program, adding that the United States has no authority over Tehran’s nuclear activities.
Israeli diplomats have been added to WhatsApp groups allegedly operated from Iran as the cyber war between the two countries continues, Israeli media reported on Monday.
Prices of Iranian-made and assembled cars have surged as the rial weakened against the dollar, with major manufacturers raising official rates to offset mounting costs, Iranian media reported on Monday.
The commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Mohammad Pakpour, offered condolences over the killing of Yemeni Houthi military chief Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Ghamari in an Israeli strike and pledged to deepen ties with the Iran-aligned group.
The provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 2231 have officially expired, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei said on Monday, adding that the framework that endorsed the 2015 nuclear agreement came to an end.
A lawmaker warned on Sunday that Iran’s new energy plan could raise gasoline prices by up to 266%, even as officials deny any plan to hike fuel costs — a move widely seen as a potential trigger for protests amid rising poverty.
The UN nuclear watchdog's inspectors do not believe that Iran has hidden large quantities of its highly enriched uranium at different locations, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief told the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung.
Western officials from Poland and Britain hit back at Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi after he posted a tweet in Polish condemning a drone display in the UK parliament that linked Iran to Russia’s war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump said the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani in 2020 and US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June paved the way for the Gaza peace deal between Israel and Hamas.
A video showing the wedding of the daughter of Ali Shamkhani, a top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader, has reignited public anger in the country, with social media users accusing officials of hypocrisy amid worsening poverty and revived hijab patrols.
A prominent Sunni tribal elder in Iran’s restive Sistan-Baluchestan province was shot dead on Sunday, the latest in a series of targeted killings that authorities blame on foreign-backed terrorist groups.
Jon Snow, the longtime British broadcaster, once spoke at a London roundtable about his trips to Tehran. Asked how Channel 4 gained such easy access to Iranian officials, he paused and replied, “They whistle, and we go.”
Iran executed a man on Saturday convicted of spying for Israel’s Mossad intelligence service, the judiciary said on Sunday, the second such execution reported in less than a month.
Iranian Vice Speaker of Parliament Hamidreza Hajibabaei called on Muslim countries’ parliaments to pass binding laws imposing a complete economic, trade, and political boycott of Israel during a speech at the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting in Geneva.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has denounced the display of a drone in the British Parliament allegedly linked to Tehran, calling it “a pathetic show” staged by the Israeli lobby and its backers.