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Tehran on Sunday rejected a joint statement by G7 members and partners accusing Iran of assassination plots, kidnappings, and harassment of dissidents overseas.

Senior Iranian officials are using the recent Israeli attacks on Doha to justify calls for the formation of a unified military front among Muslim nations as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) gathers for an emergency summit in Qatar on Monday.

Iranian people have kept the Woman, Life, Freedom movement alive through creative acts three years after its eruption, shaping society in ways that continue to unfold, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi told Iran International on Saturday.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned on Saturday that Britain, France, and Germany risk “losing everything” if they move ahead with restoring UN sanctions on Tehran through the so-called snapback mechanism.

Young middle-class Iranians are getting increasingly anxious about slipping into poverty, despite salaries that once signaled stability but now fail to cover even routine expenses, Iran’s reformist Shargh daily warned in a weekend report.

Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentences of six men accused of involvement in the killing of a Basij militia member during the 2022 protests in Tehran’s Ekbatan neighborhood, their lawyer said ahead of the uprising's third anniversary.

Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had privately pressed President Donald Trump in the Oval Office not to launch a war against Iran, even while donors aligned with him opposed that stance, US right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson said.

Iranian athletes competing abroad face conflicting pressures: the state demands public displays of loyalty, while opponents expect defiance.

The Iranian parliament on Saturday convened an emergency meeting with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to review the government’s new cooperation agreement with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) signed in Cairo.

Australia and New Zealand marked the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death with statements to Iran International reaffirming their support for Iranian women and condemning human rights violations by the Islamic Republic.

Israeli officials told French authorities that Iran’s nuclear program was not entirely destroyed in June’s US-Israeli airstrikes, Le Monde reported on Friday.

A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader warned on Saturday that Azerbaijan would damage the image of Shiites if it proceeds with plans to host a major rabbinical meeting.

Australia joined G7 Rapid Response Mechanism members on Friday in denouncing what they described as Iran’s systematic targeting of opponents overseas.

Five years after Iran executed champion wrestler Navid Afkari, the Islamic Republic continues to silence athletes and protesters alike—making action against its repressive sports authorities imperative.

The United States Air Force has ordered a batch of cutting-edge new bunker buster bombs, Defense News reported this week, reaching for the successor technology to huge ordnance which pounded Iranian nuclear sites in June.

Federal prosecutors in Massachusetts said on Friday they had seized $584,741 in cryptocurrency from an Iranian national tied to the Revolutionary Guards’ drone manufacturing program.

US attacks on Iranian nuclear sites forestalled their potential push toward a bomb but a deal must be reached to guarantee Tehran will not go nuclear, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Joel Rubin told Iran International.

The uptake of Iranian oil at Chinese ports hit highs last seen before Donald Trump reentered the White House in early 2025 and revived his so-called maximum pressure campaign, tanker-tracking data obtained by Iran International reveals.

The United States, Canada, Australia and their European allies on Friday condemned Iran for escalating a campaign of transnational repression, accusing its intelligence services of seeking to kill, kidnap and harass political opponents overseas.

The United States on Friday expressed solidarity with Iranian people, saying in a message marking the fifth anniversary of Tehran's execution of wrestler Navid Afkari that Washington backed their struggle for freedom.

Two US senators sounded the alarm over the violation of NATO-member Poland's airspace on Tuesday by pilotless aircraft from Russia and Belarus, as Moscow steps up fusillades against Ukraine with Iranian-designed drones.