Anthropic said Thursday that Iranian state-aligned and Iran-linked accounts used Claude in separate operations involving propaganda, targeting US naval forces, domestic surveillance and profiling people in Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
The United States on Thursday sanctioned networks it said were helping Iran finance and support allied armed groups across Iraq, Lebanon, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey.
Hardliners in Tehran are pressing for further military and nuclear escalation despite mounting economic pressure and a widening confrontation with the United States. Is it a reckless gamble, or a realistic response to Iran’s dwindling options?
Iranian missiles damaged several American military aircraft at a base in Jordan this week, a US official told Reuters, underscoring the continuing ability of Iranian strikes to penetrate US defenses after more than six months of war.
Soaring food prices in Iran are increasingly reflected in reports of theft, with groceries appearing in cases ranging from first-time shoplifting to warehouse raids and armed robbery.
A dispute over Iran’s proposed measures to combat foreign infiltration escalated Thursday, with a senior lawmaker accusing President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government of acting illegally after the cabinet opposed a parliamentary committee report on the controversial legislation.
British counter-terrorism police arrested two people in London on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service in a case linked to Iran, police said on Thursday.
A senior Iranian lawmaker on Thursday called the cabinet's opposition to a parliamentary committee report on a controversial foreign infiltration bill illegal, saying the government had exceeded its authority.
Tehran’s governor has called for schools used by other state bodies to be returned before students begin the new academic year, months after military and security forces deployed at schools during the US-Israeli war.
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis seized the Red Sea port city of Mocha on Thursday as the US-Iran conflict widened across the region, while senior White House advisers reportedly warned President Donald Trump that the war could continue beyond the end of his term in January 2029.
An Iraqi commander of an Iran-backed militia who allegedly plotted attacks against Jewish targets in Europe and North America applied three times to visit Singapore, the city-state’s Internal Security Department said.
Iran's cabinet has opposed a report by parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Committee concerning a controversial bill aimed at countering infiltration by foreign intelligence services, governments and organizations, state news agency IRNA reported on Thursday.
An Iranian protester shot in the leg during January’s demonstrations remains unable to walk after 23 operations, with further treatment ahead, medical bills mounting and concerns for his safety persisting months after the shooting.
Maryam Azimi, who has written of being driven blindfolded to court in Mashhad in an intelligence vehicle, thinking those were the last minutes of her life, introduced the new iPhone's camera technology at Apple's global launch on Tuesday.
Iran routed an estimated $2 billion to $2.5 billion through a China-based trade mechanism over the past year, using proceeds from oil sales to pay for Chinese goods and, at least once, contracts for military equipment, Reuters reported on Thursday.
Iran is putting two faces of its justice system on display: highly publicized acts of compassion for thousands of prisoners, alongside an execution campaign that has killed hundreds and continues to put protesters on death row.
Iran is seeking to turn the US maritime blockade back on Washington by expanding its retaliation beyond the Strait of Hormuz, threatening shipping across a wider area after US attacks on Iranian tankers.
Moderate and reformist figures in Tehran are increasingly warning that the country cannot sustain a prolonged war, challenging hardline calls for Iranians to accept further economic hardship as the price of resistance.
The UN nuclear watchdog’s 35-nation Board of Governors voted Wednesday to report Iran to the Security Council over breaches of its nuclear non-proliferation obligations, escalating a two-decade nuclear dispute amid an ongoing war and renewed Western pressure on Tehran.
Calls by former presidents Hassan Rouhani and Mohammad Khatami to end Iran’s war with the United States have triggered a fiercer political confrontation after they invoked public opinion in support of diplomacy rather than continued fighting.
Iranian authorities are holding back from enforcing mandatory hijab as extensively as they would like because of “war conditions,” a senior official said Wednesday, even as pressure grows for tougher enforcement.