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An Israeli citizen of Iranian origin has been charged with espionage, accused of passing sensitive details about Israeli war plans to an Iranian intelligence operative.

Last month's US air strikes targeting Iran's nuclear infrastructure dampened foreign support for Tehran, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Saturday in an interview with Fox News.

Iran has banned the use of mobile phones inside parliamentary chambers and committee meetings due to rising security concerns, state media reported on Sunday.

Iran has executed two men accused of belonging to the outlawed Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK) opposition group and targeting civilian sites with improvised weapons, the judiciary-affiliated news agency Mizan reported on Sunday.

The Islamic Republic's downfall would lead to sustainable peace and prosperity in the Middle East, Iranian exiled prince Reza Pahlavi said on Saturday, calling for unity among dissidents during a major opposition gathering in Munich.

US Navy veteran Michael White's pursuit of love in Iran instead landed him in a Mashhad jail, where he looked destined to languish as a political bargaining chip.

Iran will face the return of UN sanctions unless it resumes cooperation with nuclear inspectors and returns to talks, the leaders of Britain, France and Germany agreed on Saturday during a phone conversation.

A small fire is lit at dawn and quenched at dusk at the Zoroastrian center in Orange County, California in imitation of sacred fires in worshippers' home temples of Yazd and Tehran which have burned uninterrupted for centuries.

Israel was preparing a final wave of attacks aimed at toppling Iran’s ruling system when US President Donald Trump announced a ceasefire, The Washington Post reported, citing Israeli and American officials involved in the operation.

Tehran has begun installing loudspeakers in major city squares to help inform the public during emergencies when authorities cut internet access, a city council member said on Saturday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Saturday called for the return of Iranians living abroad and urged coordination between the judiciary and intelligence services to ease concerns, despite past detentions of returnees.

Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran’s last shah, told Politico that at least 50,000 government and military insiders have registered with his defection platform to help topple the Islamic Republic.

Nine people, including three assailants, were killed and 20 others wounded in an armed attack on a courthouse in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan on Saturday, Iranian state media reported.

The defense and foreign ministers of Australia and Britain hit out on Friday at what they called Iran's rising use of the death penalty and ongoing repression of women, girls and human rights defenders.

A 25-year-old transgender woman, Sogand Pakdel, was shot in the head by her own uncle in an alleged honor killing at a family wedding near Shiraz in southern Iran last month.

The legacy of a 12-day war with Israel which ended last month will likely be yet more economic hardship, deteriorating living standards and intensifying public distrust.

Israel’s attack on Damascus may unintentionally clear a path for its arch-foe Iran to regain influence in war-torn Syria, warns Thomas Juneau, a professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Relations.

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian is facing an intense backlash over his government’s endorsement of a fast-tracked bill that critics say threatens freedom of expression and targets dissent.

Iran’s Supreme Leader on Friday described Israel's killing of top military commanders and scientists in a war last month as a heavy blow but insisted Tehran's arch-enemy failed in its goal to weaken Tehran.

Iran challenged European powers over their threat to renew UN sanctions during nuclear talks in Istanbul on Friday, Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said, in the first negotiations since Israeli and US attacks last month.

The triggering of international sanctions on Iran threatened by Europe could unleash a cascade of new challenges on the country's energy sector, from shrinking oil exports, blocked payments, halted infrastructure upgrades and deeper isolation from global markets.