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Political prisoners across nine Iranian prisons have joined the "No to Execution Tuesdays" campaign, condemning the death sentence of labor activist Sharifeh Mohammadi as "shameless and disgraceful."

Human rights organizations have documented an increase in deadly shootings by Iran’s security forces targeting Kurdish border couriers transporting goods into Iraq, who are trying to make money to survive.

The Biden administration is not ready to resume nuclear talks with Iran under the new president, the White House national security council spokesman said Monday.

With Masoud Pezeshkian announced as the winner of Iran’s snap election, which followed the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi, uncertainties remain about when he will assume office and form the new government.

Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulated Masoud Pezeshkian on his election as the president-elect of Iran during a phone call on Monday.

Iran’s president-elect Massoud Pezeshkian has responded to a congratulatory message from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, pledging continued support to “resistance force” aligned with Tehran in the region.

Immediately following Masoud Pezeshkian's victory over Saeed Jalili in Iran’s heavily manipulated presidential election, most Western media outlets and news agencies labeled him as a “reformist” and “moderate.”

Recent satellite imagery shows major expansions at two key Iranian ballistic missile facilities that two American researchers assessed are for boosting missile production, a conclusion confirmed by three senior Iranian officials.

Iran has accused the United States of "interfering" with its political affairs during a weekly briefing on Monday after a US spokesman said the recent presidential elections were "not free or fair".

Workers gathered in at least ten cities across Iran on Sunday to demand better working conditions and unpaid wages as presidential elections ended amid the country's economic crisis.

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.