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Abbas Tabrizian, a controversial Iranian Shia cleric known for his advocacy of Islamic Medicine, has made headlines again calling NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope a sham.

Iraj Fazel, the president of the Iranian Society of Surgeons and former Minister of Health, warned that if the exodus of doctors continues, Iran will be forced to import specialists and send patients abroad.

Iranian media and soccer fans suspect that verbal and physical violence against female football fans is deliberately staged by authorities at stadiums to justify re-imposition of the ban on their presence.

A top Iranian official said on Wednesday that Tehran has no blocked funds in Iraq, after the Biden administration issued sanction waivers in 2023 and this year to allow Baghdad to release the Iranian funds.

The US Central Command (CENTCOM) reported that on Monday Iranian-backed Houthi forces launched three uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) from Yemen over the Gulf of Aden.

Chinese President Xi Jinping and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, have reiterated their commitment to a political resolution of the ongoing Iranian nuclear issue as Iran continues to exceed enrichment limits.

The French government on Tuesday accused Iran of adopting a policy of "state hostage-taking" and "blackmail," intensifying calls for the release of a French couple detained for the past two years.

Former US Iran envoy Robert Malley lost his security clearance, two influential congressmen have suggested, because he had transferred classified documents to his personal email and cell phone, and the documents were then stolen by a hostile cyber actor.

On November 8, 2024, the world may expect a re-enactment of Donald Trump’s temperamental mono in foreign affairs after a four-year interval upon his possible re-election.

The United States sees Iran's capacity to move its oil as reliant on service providers based in Malaysia, with oil being transferred near Singapore, the US Treasury Department's top sanctions official said on Tuesday.

Just back to Austria from Iran, the head of UN’s nuclear watchdog, Rafael Grossi, said he did not seal any deal but discussed possible steps to implement measures Tehran had committed to in a joint statement last year.

Iranian traders are smuggling more than $1 billion worth of fuel into neighboring Pakistan annually.

An Iranian court has urged France to repatriate members of the exiled opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK) amid a new wave of trials against 104 members of the group in Tehran.

Nasser Kanaani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson, condemned the Israeli military's taking control of the Rafah crossing and blocking a critical aid route into the besieged strip.

Nasser Kanani, spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry, hailed Hamas's response to the terms of the Gaza ceasefire as "the political intelligence of the resistance".

In a move to regulate the employment of foreign nationals, Iran has introduced a daily fine of 12 million rials (approximately 20 USD) for employers hiring unauthorized foreign workers.

Iran International was named the winner of the 2024 Geneva Summit Courage Award on Tuesday for "fearlessly” uncovering the daily “abuses of the Islamic Republic of Iran."

The Tehran prosecutor's office has initiated legal proceedings against two journalists over their reporting on the death of 16-year-old protester Nika Shakarami.

At least five doctors in Iran have reportedly committed suicide in the last 50 days, according to a state-run media outlet in Tehran.

The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has called for intensified sanctions against Iranian authorities for the brutal enforcement of hijab.

The UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi traveled to Iran Monday, hoping to achieve what his agency has been pursuing in vain for more than two decades: transparency and assurances that Tehran’s nuclear program is peaceful.