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Iran has amputated the fingers of a prisoner on alleged theft charges despite the plaintiff’s pardon, Norway-based human rights group Hengaw reported on Friday.

A troika of European powers which triggered the reimposition of international sanctions on Iran last month called on Friday for Tehran to resume nuclear talks with Washington.

Tehran is shifting its sanctions-busting strategy away from crude oil toward more lucrative and less scrutinized petroleum products to boost revenues even as restrictions tighten.

The appointment of Iranian and Chinese diplomats to the UN Human Rights Council's advisory committee has stoked backlash from critics of the global body and Iran citing the two countries' harsh rights record.

Democratic Senator Cory Booker told Iran International in an interview that Tehran and its armed allies in the region posed an enduring threat to the newly clinched Gaza ceasefire and that Washington must remain vigilant.

An Iranian presidential aide on Friday ridiculed US President Donald Trump’s failed bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying his record of militarism and complicity in Israeli "genocide" in Gaza belied any claim to peace.

Iranian Nobel laureates Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi praised the selection of 2025 winner, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, saying her courage and leadership serve as an inspiration for Iran’s pro-democracy movement.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned what it called the United States’ interventionist military activities in the Caribbean and Latin America, warning that recent strikes against Venezuela could endanger regional peace and stability.

More than $95 billion in foreign currency from Iran’s non-oil exports since 2018 has not been repatriated to the country, the Guards-linked Tasnim news agency reported on Friday, citing official trade data.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday he resisted international pressure to halt the war in Gaza because Israel’s security depended on removing the threat from Iran and its armed allies.

At least 1,537 people were executed by hanging in Iran between October 2024 and October 2025, the highest figure in a decade, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday in its annual report marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty.

Hydropower generation at the Amir Kabir Dam in Karaj, west of Tehran, has stopped after storage fell to 25 million cubic meters, while lawmakers warned that several provinces could soon face acute drinking water shortages.

The United Nations said on Thursday it could not confirm Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref’s statement that Secretary-General António Guterres told him the June war with Israel had ended efforts to topple the Islamic Republic.

Leaked documents and media investigations indicate a Berlin businesswoman allegedly ran oil sales for Iran from her apartment, with the proceeds apparently reaching Iran’s Ministry of Defense through a web of front companies operating in Asia.

A conservative Iranian lawmaker said parliament is reviewing an emergency motion to stop the implementation of Iran’s conditional approval to join a United Nations convention against terror financing, arguing it would expose the country’s sanction-busting networks.

An outlet close to Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani has republished a 50-year-old interview with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in an apparent bid to draw historical legitimacy to Tehran’s current hardline stances.

While top officials in Tehran remain silent on the Gaza–Israel peace deal, Iranians across the political spectrum have flooded social media, some hailing Hamas’s “victory” while others condemned Iran’s costly involvement.

The newly published text of a draft Iranian anti-espionage law increases punishments for the use of Elon Musk's Starlink internet technology, including the death penalty if used for spying.

Iran is poised to implement a new anti-espionage law expanding government control over social media and online activity which could expand the death penalty for internet speech.

A 22-year-old student was shot dead by Iran’s paramilitary forces in the central Iranian city of Isfahan during the country’s war with Israel in June, a student-run newsletter reported on Thursday, citing the victim’s family.

Iran executed 72 people in the first nine days of October, bringing the total number of executions this year to at least 1,172, according to US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.