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A hijab enforcer at a metro station in Shiraz, southern Iran, sexually assaulted a nine-year-old girl to "test maturity", according to human rights sources.

Alireza Zakani, the Mayor of Tehran, formally withdrew from the presidential race just a day before the election in support of the other hardline candidates, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and Saeed Jalili.

Prominent politicians in Iran weighed in on the issue of election Wednesday, with two former presidents endorsing the "moderate" candidate and several opposition figures calling on people to boycott Friday’s election.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited acclaimed Iranian filmmaker, playwright, and screenwriter Bahram Beyzai, and award-winning Iranian director Maryam Keshavarz to become members of the Academy.

The UK’s Labour Party intends to proscribe Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist entity, if it wins the general election next month, according to a report by the British newspaper The Telegraph.

Several student organizations, women's and youth groups are adding their voices to the growing collective effort to boycott the upcoming presidential election in Iran.

Iranian-Swedish academic Ahmadreza Djalali, who is on death row in Iran’s Evin prison, has started a hunger strike to protest being left out of a recent Tehran-Stockholm prisoner exchange, his wife said.

Iranian presidential candidate Amir-Hossein Ghazizadeh Hashemi has withdrawn from the race two days before the election day in support for the three other hardline candidates.

The US does not expect Iran's June 28 presidential election to result in any "fundamental change" in the Islamic Republic's direction, the Biden administration's acting special envoy for Iran said.

Former US State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus took aim at the Biden administration's strategy on Iran, urging for more robust and assertive US policy to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.

Mothers of slain Iranian protesters and dissidents have denounced the upcoming June 28 snap presidential election in Iran, calling it a "circus."

An Iranian dissident escaped an assassination attempt in the Netherlands earlier this month, according to the French daily Le Monde, in what seems to be yet another sign of Iran’s resolve to silence voices of dissent outside the country.

As the only pro-reform individual among six handpicked candidates in Iran’s presidential race apparently enjoys a lead, Masoud Pezeshkian has come under attack by the others, who mostly prescribe the same old policies.

A former Iranian official who has been under "administrative detention" in France since June 3, was detained for links to the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force, among other reasons, Iran International has learned.

Iranian presidential candidate and cleric Mostafa Pourmohammadi has downplayed his role in the mass executions of dissidents carried out by the Islamic Republic during the 1980s.

A flood has hit northern Iran on Tuesday evening, leaving five people missing and 24 injured.

Observers note that amid otherwise uneventful presidential debates, a contentious issue emerged, dividing conservatives and so-called reformists: the unfulfilled promise of a COVID-19 vaccine.

During the final presidential election debate on Tuesday, candidates in Iran's presidential election focused their talking points on the country's internet shutdowns amid past popular protests.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister claims the country has followed the right path in nuclear negotiations and is in an excellent position, in spite of it being under global sanctions for its nuclear program.

Iran says the Saudi government has rejected Tehran’s request to run remote ballots for Friday's presidential polls from the roughly 47,000 Iranian pilgrims currently in Mecca and Medina.

Israel’s National Cyber Directorate says Iran poses a significant cyber threat worldwide, escalating attacks at three times the rate since Hamas’s October 7 massacre.