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Jimmy Carter, whose presidency lasted only four years due to his inability to resolve the Iran hostage crisis, died at the age of 100 on Sunday.

The anti-hijab protests of Vida Movahed seven years ago have become a legacy that haunts the Islamic Republic today as a nationwide movement against the Islamic headscarf continues to blight Tehran's leadership.

Ansar al-Furqan, a Sunni jihadist and ethnic Baluch militant group deemed a terrorist organization by Tehran, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed a local military intelligence chief in southern Iran.

Jalal Sherafat, a senior Iranian police commander, was killed in a car crash, Iranian media reported on Saturday.

Washington on Sunday urged Iran to release an Italian journalist detained in Tehran in a case likely related to Italy's arrest of an Iranian businessman on terrorism charges at the behest of the United States.

Babak Zanjani, an Iranian oil tycoon convicted of embezzling billions of dollars in oil revenues and sentenced to death, has apparently been released from prison according to social media posts by his lawyer.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed on Sunday during a visit to Dubai.

Iran is struggling with a sharp decline in oil exports to China and seeks to offload reserves stored in Chinese ports ahead of Donald Trump's return to Washington.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) issued a statement on the anniversary of the December 30th pro-government protests, urging citizens to unite in the face of foreign threats while the country edges towards further unrest.

Hamas dismissed an Israeli media report about the details of the assassination of the Iran-backed group's leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.

In an interview with Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya, Syria’s new de-facto leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa, said he had expected a more positive engagement from Iran following the fall of the decades-long Assad government.

Business owners and employees in Tehran’s historic bazaar staged a rare strike on Sunday against runaway inflation and soaring foreign currency rates, spurring protests in other commercial hubs in the capital.

Iran's government has warned the country's ultra-hardliners and their vigilante groups of serious consequences if they continue to sow “discord” with their apparently growing protests against the President's new, more progressive policies.

Just days after Israel admitted it had killed Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran last summer, its intelligence service has revealed that the operation was nearly scuppered after a technical glitch in the site of the killing.

An Iranian lawmaker backed Tehran's plans to target Israel and warned that any Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities would legitimize Tehran advancing toward nuclear weapons development.

Iran's ambassador to Muscat, Mousa Farhang, announced that Oman's Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi will visit Tehran soon, describing the trip as a milestone in Iran-Oman ties in the new year. He did not specify the exact timing of the visit.

Fifty percent of Iran’s industrial parks have ceased operations due to power outages, according to the employers' representative in the Supreme Labor Council, as the electricity cuts further hamper the economy.

A suicide bomber attacked the front of a police headquarters in Bandar Lengeh in southern Iran on Saturday night, killing the head of the port city's military intelligence, the IRGC-affiliated Tasnim News reported.

The spokesman for Yemen's Houthis says the Tehran-backed militants have shot down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone over Al-Bayda governorate.

Iran’s defense minister announced a surprise series of military drills starting Saturday to show the Islamic Republic would not crumble easily like Bashar al-Assad's Syria.

Italy is negotiating for the release of a journalist detained in Iran via a potential exchange for an Iranian citizen arrested in Milan at the request of the United Sates, according to Italian daily La Repubblica.