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Iran has decided to prohibit women from attending football matches involving FC Nassaji Mazandaran against popular teams such as Persepolis FC and Esteghlal FC.

Traders in Bandar Abbas gathered in front of the General Department of Taxation of Hormozgan Province to protest against 10 percent hikes in the value-added tax (VAT) rate amid the country's economic disaster.

Late on Saturday, Miri Regev, a member of Israel's security cabinet and Minister of Transportation, officially confirmed that Israel had launched a strike on an Iranian air base in Isfahan.

The President of the Kurdistan region visited Tehran in a bid to calm tensions between the government and the flashpoint area.

Amir Hossein Bankipour, a member of the Iranian Parliament, recently detailed more surveillance measures under the proposed Hijab and Chastity Bill to crack down on hijab defiance.

Critics of Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi are demanding to know why he has not acted upon promises to pursue rampant corruption among top government officials that has led to many recent scandals.

More than 230 Iranian activists have condemned the government's corruption claiming that "a limited ruling class" has "reached astronomical wealth while political obstruction and suppression increase."

The secretary of the union of Iran’s university professors warned that the Interior Ministry and the National Security Council now dominate the country’s universities.

One person was killed, and three others were injured during an armed conflict on Saturday evening in Zahedan with Basij militia forces deployed to the scene.

Heavy rainfalls have led to significant flooding across 21 regions in Iran, affecting residential areas and agricultural lands.

Iran will have no mercy for drug traffickers, warned Attorney General Mohammad Movahedi-Azad amid rising concerns about the country’s alarming rate of drug-related executions.

The Islamic Republic’s Education Minister is criticizing UNESCO’s 2030 Education Agenda for promoting “gender equality,” labeling it as contradictory to Iranian culture.

The appointment of Jamileh Alamolhoda, the wife of President Ebrahim Raisi, to the executive board for faculty recruitment at Tehran University has stirred controversy.

Eight students from the Anwar al-Haramain religious school in Sistan-Baluchestan have been arrested by the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) accused of supporting insurgent Sunni Baluch group Jaish al-Adl.

While Iran's efforts to become a regional transit hub over the last two decades have failed, talks are reportedly underway with 21 countries to launch free economic zones aimed at boosting the sector.

An Iranian lawmaker has implied that a secret and controversial contract by Tehran's city administration with a Chinese firm is in fact an attempt to circumvent sanctions.

Amid an Iran-backed blockade of the Red Sea, an Iranian warship has crossed the equator into the Southern Hemisphere for the first time, media in Tehran reported on Saturday.

Iran retained its position as the second highest country to imprison writers amid the country's nationwide uprising, second only to China, according to the 2023 Freedom to Write Index.

The ancient archeological site of Naqsh-e Rostam, located in Iran's Fars Province, risks collapse after severe damage inflicted due to ground subsidence recent heavy rainfall.

Almost two weeks after a death sentence handed out to Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi, the Iranian diaspora took to the streets in Australia on Saturday to protest his death penalty.

On World Press Freedom Day, the United States paid tribute to Iranian journalists who continue to face severe pressure from the government as Iran is branded the world's second worst country for jailing writers.