Iranians are increasingly buying basic food on credit and lining up for chicken scraps, with shopkeepers and residents describing shrinking purchasing power under rapidly rising prices in a report published Sunday.
Some Iranian schools are charging billions of rials for pools, therapy and small classes as students elsewhere reuse old bags and go without uniforms, shoes and stationery because their families cannot afford them ahead of the new school year.
Anthropic said Iranian paramilitary and security units used Claude to surveil thousands of Iranians and identify opposition and diaspora accounts, while a separate MEK-linked operation used the AI to impersonate an activist and profile people inside Iran.
Iranian actress Laleh Marzban dedicated her best actress award at the Venice Film Festival to the “brave women of Iran,” saying they were enduring immense pressure and paying a heavy price for basic freedoms.
Middle Eastern oil exporters are finding ways around months of war and shipping disruption, with UAE crude exports back at pre-war levels, according to TankerTrackers.com, which says Iranian exports have effectively vanished.
Iran has executed at least 29 people arrested in connection with the widespread protests in January, more than half of whom were not accused of killing anyone, with some put to death in public in what rights groups describe as a campaign to deter further dissent.
Iran-backed Iraqi armed groups denied responsibility on Saturday for the drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, rejecting an accusation that has already prompted Baghdad to dismiss a military commander and close border crossings with Iran.
Marziyeh “Sevda” Ebrahimi Shamsabadi, a 33-year-old blogger from Bandar Abbas who has been detained since March, has been sentenced to death, according to information obtained by Iran International.
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Iran was probably responsible for the aerial attack that shut Saudi Arabia’s East-West oil pipeline, while predicting that the war with Tehran would end “very soon.”
Sepah Bank, a major state-owned bank tied to the Islamic Republic's military has warned staff to pursue pay and workplace grievances only through authorized channels, according to an internal notice obtained by Iran International.
The fall of the Ali al-Taher heights to Israel has turned Iran's hardliners on the negotiators of the June deal with Washington, whose clause on Lebanon was sold at home as a victory and whose defenders now say it has been dead for two months.
US President Donald Trump this week repeated the boldest promise of the Iran war, that when Washington is "finished," Iranians should take over their government. In February the sentence stunned. On Wednesday it barely registered, and the silence is the story.
Heavy fighting between Iranian security forces and unidentified gunmen spread across parts of Saravan in southeastern Iran on Saturday, with reports of attacks on military vehicles and dozens of security personnel killed or wounded, the rights group Haalvsh reported.
Israel will settle for nothing short of the collapse of the Islamic Republic, its ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter told Iran International.
Saudi Arabia faced growing pressure on two fronts Friday as drones launched from Iraq struck its East-West oil pipeline, prompting fresh Iraqi security measures, while Iran-aligned Houthis tightened their grip on Yemen’s Red Sea coast ahead of regional talks in Oman.
Iranian hardliners are demanding that Tehran abandon restraint and restore deterrence through military confrontation following the latest Israeli attack on Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon.
Russia could help sustain Yemen’s Houthis if Iran’s ability to support the group is weakened, providing a lifeline as the group expands its reach around a second crucial Middle Eastern shipping route, according to Anna Borshchevskaya, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute.
A reported attempt by a hardline lawmaker to raise President Masoud Pezeshkian’s removal from office has triggered a fierce confrontation not between Iran’s hardliners and moderates but within the conservative camp, exposing divisions that have deepened during the war.
Iran-backed Houthi forces advanced toward the Bab el-Mandeb Strait on Friday, reaching Dhubab as Yemeni government forces withdrew from nearby Perim Island, raising concerns over another major shipping route amid disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
Israel’s destruction of Hezbollah’s Ali al-Taher complex, despite Iranian warnings, has exposed the limits of Tehran’s deterrence in Lebanon as it increasingly relies on maritime chokepoints for leverage.
Routine screenings and consultations for Iranian women can now cost more than two months of average pay, as healthcare prices rise much faster than wages and force some women to postpone preventive care.