Iran executed Mohammad Aref Shahbakhsh on Saturday over an armed attack on a police post in Khash, in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, the judiciary said, the latest hanging as fighting between Baluch militants and security forces spreads across the province.
Israel’s prime minister and his Mossad chief planned an operation against Iran on the eve of Israel's October 27 election, over the objections of other security chiefs, and dropped it after a mistake by an Israeli operative tipped off Washington, Channel 12 reported on Friday.
While Tehran celebrates Donald Trump's midterm defeat and the economic pain the Iran war has inflicted on Americans, soaring prices and stagnant wages are pushing ordinary Iranians deeper into a cost-of-living crisis at home.
New satellite imagery suggests Iran is undertaking major construction near missile bases and repairing military installations damaged by months of US and Israeli airstrikes, according to an investigation by BBC Verify.
Iranian commentators are divided over JD Vance's remarks on the political costs of the war with Iran, with some seeing evidence of tensions within the Trump administration and others warning that he may be trying to lure Tehran into a disadvantageous deal.
A US military official urged Iranian civilians to remain indoors and stay away from Revolutionary Guards positions if military tensions escalate, telling Iran International that the IRGC was placing weapons and command centers in residential areas.
Iran sent security chief Mohsen Rezaei to Moscow to request S-400 air defense systems in a personal letter from Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei to President Vladimir Putin, The Telegraph reported Friday, citing a senior Iranian official.
Iran, home to the world's second-largest natural gas reserves, is turning to Russia for supplies as war damage and years of underinvestment threaten to deepen an energy crisis ahead of winter.
Ships linked to Iran looped, loitered and went dark over undersea internet cables in the Gulf of Oman in the weeks after Tehran threatened the region’s digital infrastructure, the Financial Times reported on Friday. One of them had been boarded by US Marines in May.
Belgium’s defense minister said on Friday that Tehran had warned his country of dire consequences if it allowed Reza Pahlavi, Iran’s exiled prince, to speak in Brussels, and that the event had gone ahead anyway.
An Israeli strike on Iran remains possible, but Israeli defense officials have detected no major US military buildup in the region, Ynet reported on Friday, citing unnamed defense officials.
The wife of imprisoned Swedish-Iranian researcher Ahmadreza Jalali has challenged Tehran's calls for expatriates to return home, urging authorities to first release those jailed after visiting Iran.
Turkey's approval of a defense pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan has paved the way for military support to Riyadh amid attacks by Iran-backed Houthis, though deploying Turkish troops would still require separate parliamentary approval.
President Donald Trump's sweeping midterm defeat has sparked a debate in Tehran over whether Iran should seize the opportunity to negotiate a deal with Washington or maintain pressure through its control of the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranian hardliners are calling for continued pressure on Washington following the US midterm elections, arguing that the war has exacted a political price on Republicans but that Democratic gains offer little prospect of a change in US policy toward Tehran.
Iran stepped up diplomatic efforts on Thursday, submitting a new nuclear proposal to Washington, seeking Russian support and reaching out to regional powers a day after President Donald Trump's party suffered a sweeping defeat in the US midterm elections.
An Iranian court has sentenced two men arrested during January's anti-government protests to death, a rights group reported Thursday, adding to a growing number of protesters facing execution in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
The US State Department on Thursday condemned Iran’s execution of three young men detained over January protests, highlighting their families’ suffering amid a broader campaign of executions that rights monitors say extends far beyond political cases.
Even as Iran grapples with war, economic crisis and the threat of renewed US and Israeli attacks, its security forces are breaking up Halloween celebrations, closing cafes and detaining people for gathering in public.
Unpaid insurance reimbursements and rising medicine and equipment prices are draining private hospitals' finances, threatening their ability to maintain services and increasing costs for patients, hospital executives said in accounts published on Thursday.
Iranian state television broadcast live a mock hanging of US President Donald Trump as part of a pro-establishment campaign featuring public displays calling for his killing, following Republican losses in Tuesday's US midterm elections.