The clerical government in Iran is currently grappling with at least seven significant domestic and international crises, creating what can be described as a "mega-crisis" for the whole political system and its leadership.
The stunning advances by Syrian rebel forces, which could ultimately unseat Bashar al-Assad, threaten to dismantle two decades of costly Iranian efforts to create dominance in the region.
The United States assesses that Iran could rapidly build a nuclear weapon should it decide to do so, according to a November 2024 intelligence report released Thursday which said there were no indications yet it was building a bomb.
Some Iranian politicians and state-controlled media appear to be promoting a parallel narrative about huge Syrian military losses seemingly aimed at reassuring the Tehran's ideological supporters that the so-called axis of resistance it leads remains intact.
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Syrian Kurdish fighters, seized the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor and a nearby Iraqi-Syrian border crossing used by Iran to arm Lebanon's Hezbollah, Reuters reported on Friday.
Iran plans to send weapons and personnel to Syria, a senior Iranian official said on Friday, as rebel forces advanced rapidly toward Homs, potentially threatening the capital Damascus and Bashar al-Assad’s rule.
Iran’s new chastity and hijab law has drawn criticism from journalists and activists who warn it represents a new weapon in the state's arsenal against women which could authorize extreme punishments including the death penalty and flogging.
Iran's capacity to produce uranium enriched to up to 60% purity, near weapons-grade, has seen a "dramatic increase," chief of the United Nations' nuclear watchdog the IAEA Rafael Grossi told Reuters on Friday.
The hardline daily Kayhan in Tehran has criticized Iranian officials for presenting conflicting positions on talks with the West, particularly the United States, over the past four months since Masoud Pezeshkian assumed the presidency.
The Israeli military struck weapons transfer hubs and infrastructure near the Syrian-Lebanese border overnight, used by Iran-backed Hezbollah to transport arms, the military said Friday.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi traveled to Baghdad on Friday for talks with his Iraqi and Syrian counterparts about the rapid advance of rebel forces in Syria.
The United States on Thursday demanded Iran release Nobel Peace laureate Narges Mohammadi with no conditions, a day after her release for three weeks of medical leave.
A new report from a US-based rights group drawing on hundreds of interviews over more than two years has documented Iran's systematic denial of accountability and legal redress for killings and other grave human rights abuses.
Iran has funded the bulk of aid distributed to Lebanese families affected by a 14-month war between Israel and the country's Tehran-backed militia Hezbollah, the group's leader said, even as an economic crisis festers inside Iran.
Romania arrested and charged two nationals over the stabbing of prominent Iran International presenter Pouria Zeraati in London earlier this year, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service said on Thursday, but authorities stopped short of linking Tehran to the attack.
Syrian army forces quit Hama as rebels entered the northern city, dealing another heavy blow to the embattled government which has been propped with aid from Iran and its regional allies for over a decade.
Several dissident figures linked to Iran's Green Movement from fifteen years ago have called on the Iranian elite to support women's civil disobedience against the hijab mandate rather than merely criticizing the new hijab law.
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, with ultimate authority over Tehran’s nuclear policy, combined strict oversight with cautious deniability in the lead-up to the 2015 nuclear deal—using a dual strategy to safeguard domestic credibility while retaining international leverage.
Hezbollah, Iran’s largest armed ally acting as its proxy force, continues to pose a long-term threat despite the significant damage inflicted on the group by Israel, according to US intelligence sources.
The UK's Chief of Defence Staff says Israel's October attack has incapacitated Iran’s ability to produce ballistic missiles for a year, leaving Tehran facing a strategic dilemma in its response.
Critics of Iran's new hijab law say President Masoud Pezeshkian should not only refuse to take responsibility for its implementation but also try to find a way to shelve or abolish it.