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More than 200 cases have been filed against Iranians amid the continued crackdown on celebrations of the death of President Ebrahim Raisi last month.

Iranian presidential candidate Mostafa Pourmohammadi has vowed to end the practice of internet bans, likening the internet to "the water for life" and acknowledging the disruption caused by current censorship.

As the state-controlled presidential election gets underway, Iran’s six handpicked candidates begin a mud slinging war on televised debates with accusations from corruption to human rights abuses.

Iran's Minister of Interior praised the brutal enforcement of the radical hijab regulation under the recent 'Noor' plan as one of the police's "greatest honors."

The reformist newspaper Ham-Mihan has called out the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament for his presidential election campaign rhetoric concerning Afghan migrants.

Fatemeh Sepehri, a prominent Iranian political prisoner and vocal critic of the Islamic Republic who suffers from a heart ailment, has been sentenced to an additional 18 and a half years in prison.

Iran's Acting Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani claimed that Iran and Iraq are "two main pillars in the region" while Iran continues to destabilize Iraq through its Shia proxies.

Josep Borrell, the European Union's Foreign Policy Chief, has demanded Iran release its European hostages, including an EU representative.

Mahmoud Vaezi, the former Chief of Staff to ex-President Hassan Rouhani, has openly critiqued Masoud Pezeshkian's stance on reform ahead of the presidential elections scheduled for June 28.

Iran’s proreform presidential candidate Massoud Pezeshkian held a meeting with former foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, after reports that he might choose the former diplomat as his foreign minister in case of victory in the June 28 vote.

Iran’s economy minister says the government budget’s tax revenues reached 8,000 trillion rials ($13.5 billion), achieving 108% of the projected target during the last fiscal year, which ended on March 21.

The husband of imprisoned journalist Saba Azarpeik disclosed on X that his wife was hospitalized on Tuesday due to severe bleeding, resulting in the termination of her pregnancy.

Iran has released French citizen Louis Arnaud who had been jailed since September 2022 and sentenced to five years in prison, President Emmanuel Macron announced Wednesday.

Controversy continues around Massoud Pezeshkian, the only proreform candidate running for president in Iran, as some claim that his chances for the June 28 vote are high, while others dismiss him as another regime pawn.

Denying claims of a halt in the recent Iran-Russia cooperation agreement, Ali Bagheri Kani, the acting head of Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has attempted to dismiss reports.

Former Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has stated that the most crucial task for the upcoming president will be to help lift sanctions.

Yahya Rahim Safavi, a senior military advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, praised Iran’s April aerial bombardment of Israel in spite of the majority being intercepted.

The Swedish Journalists' Association has voiced concern over the safety of Mehran Abbasian, a journalist with Iran International TV, highlighting the threats against him as a blatant attempt to suppress journalistic freedom.

Dissident director and screenwriter Bahare Lelahi was allegedly killed by Iran’s security forces and buried in secret.

After relatively strong GDP growth in 2023, Iran's economic growth would decelerate in the current and next two years, World Bank reported Wednesday.

Iran-backed Lebanese Hezbollah fired big barrages of rockets at Israel on Wednesday in retaliation for an Israeli strike which killed a senior Hezbollah field commander, sharply escalating tensions across the Lebanese-Israeli border.