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Political observers in Tehran have been predicting changes at the Supreme Council of National Security (SCNS), the government body that makes key security and foreign policy decisions.

The explosion of thousands of Hezbollah pager devices on Tuesday has sent shockwaves through governments, political groups, and ordinary citizens across the Middle East, eliciting a mix of admiration, outrage, and disbelief.

Amid the two countries' shadow war, Iran’s Supreme Leader has once again reaffirmed his ban on competing against Israeli athletes, but offered incentives through compensation to ensure compliance.

Israel emphasized securing its frontier with Lebanon as a key war goal and equipped border forces with thousands of advanced new rifles on Monday, a day before an apparent Israeli attack detonated pagers carried by Hezbollah members across Lebanon.

Nine people were killed in Lebanon on Tuesday and 2,750 were wounded, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced, after pagers used by Hezbollah members detonated throughout the country in a likely Israeli attack.

Israel says it has foiled an Iran-backed Hezbollah plot to assassinate a former security chief on Israeli soil as the terror group gets ever more emboldened in its operations.

Iran's National Civil Registration Organization’s website has removed statistics which revealed around 1,500 children were born to mothers under the age of 15 in Iran last year as numbers surged from 364 in 2020.

On the second anniversary of Mahsa Amini's death in Iranian police custody, the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand issued a joint statement reaffirming their support for Iranian women and human rights defenders.

Iranian authorities have released Austrian citizen Christian Weber, jailed in Iran amid the 2022 protests, and handed over to Austria's ambassador in Tehran.

The Indian government criticized Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei over his remarks about the maltreatment of Muslims in India on Monday, reminding him of his government’s treatment of minorities in Iran.

The Canadian government has expanded its ban on senior Iranian officials from entering the country, expanding a measure that now blocks tens of thousands of individuals tied to the Islamic Republic.

At least 1,425 people have been executed in Iran since Mahsa Amini’s death in custody sparked a nationwide protest movement in September 2022, a new report by Norway-based Iran Human Rights Organization said.

An American man arrested for a suspected assassination attempt on Donald Trump on Sunday wrote in a self-published book last year that Iran had a right to kill the former US president after he pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal.

The immediate reaction on social media to President Masoud Pezeshkian’s belated press conference on Monday was mixed, highlighting the deep divide within Iranian society.

The United Kingdom introduced fresh trade sanctions against Iran targeting its defense industry on Monday, a week after accusing Iran of delivering ballistic missiles to Russia.

In his first press conference since his election, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian denied on Monday that Tehran has supplied hypersonic missiles to Yemen's Houthi rebels or short-range ballistic missiles to Russia.

Iran’s new Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told state television that Tehran will fully back its ‘Resistance Front’ in the region by providing “unlimited support,” as Israel tries to fully defeat the Palestinian Hamas.

A member of Tehran’s City Council has revealed that 30 priceless paintings loaned from Imam Ali Religious Arts Museum have disappeared.

A senior member of the Saudi royal family has accused Iran of breaching the terms of the 2023 agreement to resume ties as it continues to arm and fund armed militant groups in the region.

Touted as a diplomatic breakthrough, Iranian President's first trip to Iraq last week aimed high on economics and security but seemed to hit more roadblocks than milestones.

Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi on Sunday urged the United Nations to criminalize gender apartheid, in a message from prison on the second anniversary of Iran's 'Woman, Life Freedom' movement.