Iran is using diplomats and couriers to smuggle cash to Tehran's ailing ally Hezbollah in Lebanon via flights from Istanbul, Israel's N12 reported, after new authorities in Beirut banned Iran's state carriers.
Tehran seeks to erect walls all around Iran, a senior armed forces official said, as part of a sweeping effort to tighten the country’s border security.
The United States on Wednesday moved to further impede Iranian access to American technology by adding two Iran-linked entities to its export blacklist, citing their alleged role in procuring parts for Tehran’s drone and missile programs.
US defense secretary Pete Hegseth urged public messaging emphasizing Iran's support of the Houthis in texts leaked to an American journalist, saying the public was largely ignorant about the Yemeni militia.
Iran is forging documents to pass off fuel oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) bound for Asian markets as emanating from other countries to skirt US-led sanctions, an analysis by Iran International shows.
The leadership in Baghdad is pressuring Tehran-aligned armed groups not to attack Israeli targets to avoid a punishing military response, The New Arab news outlet reported on Wednesday.
Workplace fatalities claimed the lives of over a thousand Iranian workers between March and September, a notable year-on-year increase that labor activists attribute to authorities' lack of attention to worker safety.
The back-and-forth between Iranian and US leaders over Tehran’s nuclear program and the prospect of negotiations has changed little since at least 2016.
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) unveiled what state media dubbed a new missile city, showcasing a variety of domestically produced missiles, as tensions with the United States escalate.
Reverence for the Shi'ite messiah, or Mahdi, has played a central yet contested role in Iran’s Islamic theocracy—bolstering the legitimacy of its two leaders while also fueling subtle power plays by hardline zealots.
As controversy over leaked attack plans gripped Washington, US President Donald Trump said the strikes had successfully battered the Houthis in Yemen and that their Iranian patrons must soon negotiate a nuclear deal or else.
Iran is not building nuclear weapons but recent discourse in Tehran urging the acquisition a bomb is emboldening advocates for such a move in decision-making circles, US director of national intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said on Tuesday.
The United States on Tuesday sanctioned three senior Iranian intelligence operatives accused of playing a role in the disappearance and presumed death of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished in Iran over 17 years ago.
Iran warned on Tuesday that it would respond strongly to any use of the so-called snapback mechanism by Western countries, a tool within the 2015 nuclear deal that could reimpose international sanctions on Tehran lifted by the deal.
A prominent political commentator in Tehran has suggested that the best way for Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to break the current deadlock is to hold a national referendum on the question of war or peace with the United States.
The UN nuclear watchdog warned that any new agreement with Iran is impossible before Tehran resolves outstanding questions about uranium traces found at undeclared sites.
Iran’s currency hit a record low of 1,039,000 rials to the US dollar on Tuesday, as the absence of nuclear talks with the US continues to fuel economic uncertainty.
The United Nations Human Rights Council is set to vote on extending the mandates of both its fact-finding mission on Iran and its human rights rapporteur, citing ongoing and systemic human rights violations, according to a draft resolution seen by Iran International.
Iran's foreign minister revealed the contents of a letter from US President Trump to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during a call with his Iraqi counterpart, according to Iraq's foreign ministry.
Iran’s health system faces an uphill battle filling vacancies, the country's medical regulatory body warned on Monday, citing shortages of doctors and nurses as the most pressing challenge in the year ahead.
Sanctioning a Chinese refinery for buying Iranian oil is the first real sign of President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure” on Tehran, the Wall Street Journal’s Editorial Board said on Sunday.