A senior Iranian cleric whose family is at the center of a high-profile corruption investigation has stepped down from his role as Tehran’s interim Friday prayer leader, Iranian state media reported on Sunday.
As Iran faces a deepening water crisis, a recent report by The Economist shows how the Islamic Republic is quietly flooding Persian Gulf markets with fruit and vegetables through a sprawling export scheme.
An Israeli air force commander involved in the June war with Iran said the country has no choice but to prepare for another round of fighting, in an interview with Israel Hayom.
Tehran does not believe the threat from its enemies has ended following the June conflict with Israel, Iran’s top army commander said on Sunday, adding that the Islamic Republic’s missile and drone capabilities remain fully operational and intact.
The Islamic Republic is holding at least four Iranian American citizens including two individuals arrested after last month's US and Israeli airstrikes, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing rights groups and lawyers.
A new national plan for civil defense training and shelter preparedness has been approved, Iran’s top military official said Saturday, just days after Israeli media warned of another potential war with Tehran.
Iran’s president will head a newly revived Defense Council, a body composed of top military and security officials that played a key role in Iran's military decisions during the 1980s, a Revolutionary Guards-affiliated outlet reported on Saturday.
Capital flight from Iran’s stock market has intensified since the June war with Israel, with retail investors pulling half a billion dollars—much of it appearing to shift into gold or exit the country altogether.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on Saturday slammed efforts to promote a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a few days after a UN conference co-chaired by Saudi Arabia pushed for the solution.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has warned that regime change in Iran could produce outcomes “as bad or worse,” saying there is no guarantee that any successor to the Revolutionary Guards would be an improvement.
Iran is holding talks with European powers on its nuclear program, but no negotiations aimed at reaching a new agreement are currently underway, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said in an interview published on Saturday.
Reuters provided close to $4 million in news content to Iran’s state-controlled broadcaster over more than a decade, the Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday, citing leaked documents and internal communications.
Iran plans to launch the second model of its Nahid-2 telecommunications satellite using the domestically developed Simorgh rocket after last week’s liftoff aboard a Russian Soyuz vehicle, the head of Iran’s Space Agency said on Saturday.
Tehran authorities closed public restroom services amid a deepening drought and water shortage, local media reported on Friday, depriving the capital's homeless and needy of badly needed facilities.
Calls for systemic reform and restructuring of Iran’s political and security institutions have intensified after a 12-day war with Israel in June, accompanied by some signs of change but also many signs of continuity.
At least 730 people have been executed in Iranian prisons over the past seven months, including 102 in July alone, the US-based Abdorrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights reported on Friday, citing its investigations.
Iranian officials say Tehran could run out of water within weeks, but climatologist Dr. Nasser Karami tells Eye for Iran the crisis transcends drought and is a product of government mismanagement, militarized agriculture and deliberate manipulation.
A video shared on social media by the supporters of the Islamic Republic purportedly depicts Iranian military forces bundling figures resembling Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu onto the back of a pickup truck labeled Trash Bin of History.
Over 2,000 Iranian clerics including several senior officials called the shedding of Donald Trump’s blood religiously permissible, essentially endorsing his assassination, in a sharp escalation of official rhetoric in the theocracy against the US president.
The United States has advised citizens against traveling to Iran citing what it called escalating paranoia and an unprecedented crackdown on alleged spies and opponents following a 12-day war with Israel.
Iran will reorganize its Supreme National Security Council under a conservative stalwart, state media reported on Friday, as Tehran grapples with fallout from a June war with Israel.