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Reports circulating on social media indicate that some sectors within Iran's oil and gas industry began engaging in strikes on Saturday in protest to low pay and dismal work conditions.

The Coordination Council of Teachers Associations in Iran expressed concern over the deaths of over 20 school students in a deadly bomb attack in the city of Kerman this week.

Being married will give Iranian academics an advantage in securing a teaching position, in line with the clerical government’s ideology, an Iranian official disclosed.

Former football star, Ali Karimi, is now a social heavyweight in Iran, with 15 million Instagram followers - no longer as a soccer hero but as a political influencer.

The already critical precipitation situation in Iran has significantly deteriorated, especially in Tehran Province, according to a report from the Ministry of Energy.

Mideast tensions remained high as Iranian-backed Hezbollah group said on Saturday it had fired rockets at Israel, which responded by striking a "terrorist cell."

A 60-year-old Iranian Christian convert will begin serving a six-year prison sentence for purportedly "acting against national security by promoting 'Zionist' Christianity".

President Joe Biden, in a letter to Congress, has defended the recent air strike carried out by the US military on a headquarters of Iran-backed militias in Iraq.

Iran's government uses public resources to repress dissidents and to enforce hijab rather than ensuring the safety of borders and citizens, critical voices say.

In a radical statement amounting to ethnic cleansing, Iran's Defense Minister, Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani, has asserted that "Israelis must vacate the region."

Amnesty International has appealed to Iran's judiciary, urging an immediate halt to the execution plans for Mojahed Kourkour and the revocation of his death sentence.

Iran and the United States ironically concurred with ISIS Friday that the group's Afghan branch was behind the deadly twin bombings in Iran on Wednesday.

The Islamic Republic of Iran has launched a targeted campaign on X (formerly Twitter), with cyber agents revealing the identities of anonymous dissident users.

Iran's Ministry of Intelligence released a statement on the Kerman twin blasts, claiming that one of the alleged suicide bombers held Tajikistani nationality.

The Lebanese Hezbollah is conducting fierce attacks against Israeli targets to help Hamas in Gaza, the group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech on Friday.

Iran's Statistical Center recently announced a decline in the country's unemployment rate to 7.6 percent this fall from 10.6 in the same period in 2019.

An Iranian woman received 74 lashes for defying the Islamic Republic’s mandatory hijab, while another hijab refuser was given a two-year prison sentence.

Iran’s Interior Minister Ahmad Vahidi said Friday that a number of suspects have been arrested over the Kerman attacks claimed by Islamic State.

The Istanbul-based correspondent for the German public TV station ARD sparked anger over his report that claimed all Iranians worship IRGC’s late Qasem Soleimani.

Iraq is forming a committee to prepare the closing down of the US-led international coalition's mission in the country, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani's office said on Friday.

Iran’s prosecutor-general has threatened legal action against individuals publishing norm-breaking content about the twin bombing in Kerman this week.