At least 400 people in Iran's Gilan province were poisoned on June 28, the first round of the presidential elections in Iran, with allegations the news was censored by the government.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed hopes for a positive development in Turkey-Iran relations under the new president-elect, leveraging Masoud Pezeshkian's ethnic background as a potential diplomatic bridge.
Yahya Hosseini Panjaki, alias Yahya Hamidi, the deputy intelligence minister for internal security affairs, has been identified as the mastermind behind Iran's overseas assassination operations.
The Islamic Republic has intensified its pressures on nurses protesting in various parts of Iran for improved working conditions and better wages.
A popular campaign to unseat Tehran's mayor, Alireza Zakani, is gaining momentum, with reports on Sunday indicating that over 71,000 people have signed a petition against the hardliner.
In a meeting with the outgoing government, Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, lavished praise on the late president Ebrahim Raisi, stating that "he was an exemplary model of management," for all officials.
UN Special Rapporteur Javaid Rehman says due to systemic issues within Iran's judicial system, a change in presidency is unlikely to improve the country's human rights situation.
During both the presidential election and the runoff, diaspora Iranians gathered outside polling stations abroad to voice their disapproval, arguing that voting would lend legitimacy to the Islamic Republic.
Saeed Laylaz, a supporter of president-elect, Masoud Pezeshkian, said it would not be in his interest to act without the lead of the Supreme Leader on foreign policy.
Iran's Former Science Minister, Mostafa Moeen, revealed that students at Tehran University during the protests of July 1999 were “attacked at night” and had their “arms and legs broken” after being “thrown off from the roof".
The Iranian Navy’s "Sahand" destroyer was involved in an accident during repairs at a port on the coast of Bandar Abbas on Sunday, with unconfirmed reports of casualties.
The official results of Iran’s presidential election runoff have been announced, yet doubts have emerged regarding the veracity of the figures.
Iranian lawyer and rights activist Mohsen Borhani has been imprisoned for speaking out against the government.
Iran’s defeated presidential candidate Saeed Jalili visited president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian’s office on Saturday night, less than one day after the election results were announced, where the two held a meeting.
The Iranian elections will not have a major impact on the Biden administration's approach to Iran, a US State Department spokesperson told Iran International on Saturday, a day after moderate Masoud Pezeshkian won the country's run-off presidential vote.
The European Union offered an olive branch to Iran's president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian amid warnings by Iranian opposition figures and dissidents against any "appeasement" with the Islamic Republic's new government.
Iran's President-Elect Massoud Pezeshkian began his challenging journey to the presidency just one day after his comfortable victory in the July 5 runoff election.
As Masoud Pezeshkian was named Iran's next president, his presidential rivals sent messages of congratulations as the Supreme Leader called for government unity.
In Episode 5 of 'Eye for Iran', we discuss the Arab League’s decision to remove Hezbollah from its terror list and also the record-low voter turnout in the first round of Iran's presidential election.
Iran's top Sunni cleric Mowlavi Abdolhamid has warned president-elect Masoud Pezeshkian that Iranians are "exhausted" and are losing patience with the country's ongoing issues.
Iran’s exiled prince has warned Western powers against appeasing the Islamic Republic's new president, saying the Iranian people would view it as a betrayal of their struggle for freedom.