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Mahsa Amini was given the 2023 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought posthumously at a ceremony in Strasbourg on Tuesday.

Iranian security forces have raided two Sunni schools in Zahedan and arrested tens of students from the religious minority.

The Islamic Republic in Iran and the Erdogan regime in Turkey act with remarkable similarity in using religion to gain loyal followers in the West.

An Iranian education official has called for the enforcement of hijab among students to go far beyond school uniform rules.

The Head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), Mohammad Eslami, says the sanctions against the country must be lifted before Tehran fulfills its nuclear commitments.

Russia and Iran will speed up work on a "major new interstate agreement", the Russian foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Amirsalar Davoudi has been incarcerated since 2019 and has now been granted temporary release from Evin Prison on bail of 50 billion rial, equivalent to $100,000, a substantial sum in Iran.

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis said on Tuesday they attacked the Norwegian commercial tanker STRINDA in their latest operation against commercial shipping in the Red Sea.

A legal complaint filed on Monday asked Swiss authorities to arrest Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi if he travels to Geneva to attend a UN event.

Iran’s president has said talk will not be enough to resolve the $3.5billion tea scandal in which ministers and officials are implicated.

Iran, despite having the world's second-largest natural gas reserves, has not yet become an LNG producer, and faces a critical shortage for essential domestic needs.

An Austrian man carried out "hostile reconnaissance" against Iran International, which could have been used in an attack on the channel, prosecutors told a London court on Monday.

The EU has brought sanctions against Iranians involved in the manufacture of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used by Russia in Ukraine.

Yemen's Houthi rebels claim to have stopped a ship heading to Israel in the group’s latest response to the Gaza conflict.

Iran has dismissed global concern over its "peaceful nuclear program, claiming it poses “no threat” and does not require a new treaty deal.

Reports about a money-losing foreign currency trading scheme at the central bank of Iran has surfaced as the media is abuzz with another large corruption case.

Iran canot afford to give employees sizable pay hikes despite runaway inflation, the official in charge of economic planning has warned.

The Australian government has condemned Iran’s ambassador after he called for “an end” to Israel as the world’s “most notorious killing machine”.

Sweden has demanded the immediate release from jail in Iran of an EU diplomat who has been accused of spying.

Iranians are posting dance videos on social media in support of a man who is being prosecuted for singing and dancing in the street and posting the videos on Instagram.

A former hijab watchdog official is being detained facing a possible death sentence for homosexuality after a video showed him having sex with another man.