The United States on Friday called the reappointment of veteran powerbroker Ali Larijani to lead Iran's Supreme National Security Council a step back to failed strategies, saying the Iranian people deserve forward-looking leadership.
Iran’s revamp of a top national security body signals a ruling system in decline, former US State Department official Len Khodorkovsky told Eye for Iran, calling it “pure theater” and likening it to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
When Iran's armed forces chief of staff declared this week that all Iranians are together in one battle trench, the rallying cry rang hollow with many Iranians bewildered by a punishing war last month and worsening standards of living.
Iran's foreign ministry on Friday condemned Israel’s planned military takeover of Gaza as part of a broader strategy to forcibly displace Palestinians, accusing the Jewish state of pursuing a deliberate campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Israel established a network of Iranian dissidents and non-Iranian recruits over the course of years for its assassinations of senior officials in a June war and total destruction of Iran’s anti-aircraft defenses, according to a ProPublica investigation.
Iran is awash in voices claiming to speak for its people: state loyalists, opposition figures and self-styled experts of every stripe drowning out the non-extreme yet critical voices with their din.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) denied on Friday that its affiliate, the exiled opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), played any role in the assassinations of two figures involved in Iran’s nuclear program, in a statement sent to Iran International.
More than 600 political prisoners were transferred back to Tehran’s Evin Prison early Friday, jailed activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said, after being held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the June 23 Israeli missile strike that damaged the facility.
US President Donald Trump will host Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at the White House on Friday to sign a US-brokered peace agreement creating a transit corridor at Iran’s doorstep, Axios reported.
A US-based advocacy group on Thursday called on Washington and its European allies to confront Iran’s transnational repression by issuing a credible military threat, a week after they accused Tehran of plotting to kill individuals in Europe and the US.
A future uprising in Iran could lead to peace with Israel and would be thanks to Israel's attacks on the country in a 12-day war in June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Fox News in an interview on Thursday.
Tehran views the ceasefire with Israel as a new phase of an ongoing war, the intelligence chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday, as Iran's security establishment doubles down on confrontational rhetoric toward its arch-nemesis.
The United States on Thursday sanctioned seven people and 11 entities allegedly tied to Iran’s financial and technology networks in what the Treasury Department described as a crackdown on sanctions evasion, repression and hijab law enforcement.
An Iranian official's assertion that Russia had prior knowledge of Israel’s plans to topple the Islamic Republic has sparked a renewed debate in Iran over the relative silence of Tehran's superpower ally during a punishing war in June.
Iran's repaired air defenses and stock of unused missiles mean it can fend off Israeli attack and wreak more damage in another war, a media outlet affiliated with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said on Thursday.
Efforts to disarm Hezbollah will fail, a senior Iranian military official said Thursday, two days after Lebanon's cabinet tasked the army with ensuring it has a monopoly on weapons in the country.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said Iran’s nuclear arsenal had been “totally obliterated” and called on Middle Eastern nations to join the Abraham Accords, framing the strikes as a pathway to regional peace.
The Iranian government has allocated at least $67.6 million in foreign exchange subsidies for pilgrims attending the upcoming Arbaeen religious procession while the country faces its worst economic crisis since the founding of the Islamic Republic.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed Ali Larijani as his personal representative to the Supreme National Security Council, two days after President Masoud Pezeshkian named Larijani as the council’s secretary.
A group of leading Iranian tech entrepreneurs has warned President Masoud Pezeshkian that mounting state interference has left emigration the only remaining option for technology firms trying to survive.
A document obtained by the Daily Mail lists more than 10,000 individuals from Iran, Syria and Lebanon who were allegedly granted Venezuelan passports, raising concerns over potential infiltration into the United States.