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A right-wing political party in the UK is demanding an upcoming Shi'ite Islamic camp for children be cancelled over alleged ties to Iran’s government which organizers deny.

We Iranians need a national conversation — an ongoing, daily dialogue to see the dark and bright sides of the challenges our country faces and, hopefully, find practical solutions.

Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence issued secret guidance warning ministries and major companies to prepare for the likely return of punishing United Nations sanctions, documents reviewed by Iran International show.

A procurement network tied to a shadowy Iranian military organization stretches into Europe using front companies to supply sensitive technology to the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, according to an Iran International investigation.

Israel's defense minister on Monday hit back at a list published by media linked to Iran's military which named Israeli officials in an assassination list, appearing to threaten Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's life in response.

The Islamic Republic’s massive investment in this year’s Arbaeen pilgrimage to Iraqi holy cities is stirring fresh outrage at home, where Iranians face spiraling inflation, unpaid wages and hours-long power and water outages.

Iran is ready to accept certain restrictions on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions, but ending uranium enrichment is not negotiable, the country’s deputy foreign minister said.

Iran’s top security chief is set to urge Iraqi Shia factions to expedite approval of legislation reforming the Popular Mobilization Forces and fully integrating them into the state security apparatus, a source told Iran International.

Iranian border guards, in coordination with the navy, have seized a tanker carrying more than 2 million liters of what authorities described as smuggled diesel fuel in the Gulf of Oman, state media reported on Monday.

A senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said Israel could launch another attack on the Islamic Republic if it believed it could succeed, but insisted Tehran’s forces remained fully prepared to respond.

Kayhan newspaper, overseen by Iran's Supreme Leader, on Monday criticized President Masoud Pezeshkian’s recent comments on negotiations with the United States, accusing him of promoting a narrative in which both dialogue and conflict amount to surrender.

High-level consultations with Armenia over the proposed new US-controlled Zangezur corridor are underway, Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday, disputing reports the route had been leased to the United States for 99 years.

Iranian political prisoner Babak Shahbazi faces an imminent risk of execution following a Supreme Court decision to uphold his death sentence, the Norway-based human rights organization Hengaw said on Monday.

Iran’s newly appointed Supreme National Security Council secretary Ali Larijani will travel to Iraq and Lebanon this week in his first foreign trip since taking the post, with a bilateral security deal with Baghdad and high-level talks in Beirut on the agenda.

Iranian authorities resorted to violence against political prisoners who refused physical restraints during their transfer back to Evin Prison 45 days after the Israeli attack, 14 inmates said on Sunday, accusing the judiciary of attempting a cover-up.

Lake Urmia in northwestern Iran, once the Middle East’s largest, will completely dry up by the end of summer if current conditions persist, a senior Iranian environment official warned on Sunday.

Ali Larijani’s return to the heart of Iran’s security establishment has triggered renewed scrutiny of the country’s opaque power structures and sharp questions about the consistency of its political vetting.

A 91-year-old Holocaust survivor who was seriously injured during Iran’s missile attacks on Israel in June died at her home in the central Israeli city of Rehovot on Saturday, raising death toll from Tehran's attacks to 32, Hebrew media reported.

The closure of several foreign embassies in Tehran during and after the 12-day war with Israel has left between 3,000 and 4,000 Iranian passports stuck in diplomatic missions, stranding visa applicants, Iranian officials said on Sunday.

Cyber operations between Israel and Iran have intensified since June’s brief war despite a ceasefire, the Financial Times reported, citing Israeli officials and cybersecurity experts.

The head of Iran’s parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Sunday that no time or place has been set for new talks with the US as an ongoing review looks set to conclude that negotiations with the US are unjustified.