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Six years after Iran’s blackout and mass killings, two women keep alive the month the Islamic Republic tried to bury.

Iranian families are grappling with a deepening food stress and some have been forced to eliminate core staples like red meat, chicken, fish, eggs and fruits from their baskets due to skyrocketing prices and stagnant wages.

Air pollution reached hazardous levels in large parts of Iran on Saturday, with fourteen cities in southern Khuzestan province hitting red-alert conditions and several others nearing dangerous thresholds, according to the country’s national air-quality monitoring system.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Navy said on Saturday it had seized a Marshall Islands-flagged tanker off the coast of Makran, confirming earlier reports from maritime security firms and ship-tracking agencies.

A senior media adviser in Iran’s government resigned on Friday after mounting disputes over the administration’s communications direction and recent appointments, adding to a growing wave of departures across President Masoud Pezeshkian’s administration.

US President Donald Trump said Iran now wants to negotiate a deal after the US strikes on its nuclear sites in June, arguing that renewed US military strength had changed Tehran’s stance.

Iran Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi said using Persian Gulf water for Tehran could be done in an emergency as a last resort, since the long haul and treatment costs make the plan uneconomic in normal times.

Tehran and other major cities are edging toward water poverty, Dr. Kaveh Madani told Eye for Iran, with millions at risk of relying for their water on tankers trucks as taps begin to run dry.

Iran's UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani said Tehran will never surrender to threats or coercion during a General Assembly speech on Friday addressing a report by the UN nuclear agency urging to restore international inspections.

The arrest of two men waving the pre-1979 Iranian flag at a Tehran subway station on Wednesday led to discussion among Iranians about the prospects of renewed protests and fundamental change in Iran.

Paniz Faryousefi made history as the first woman to lead Iran's Tehran Symphony Orchestra since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conducting sold-out shows Wednesday and Thursday at Vahdat Hall despite long official gender bias in the arts.

Hardline media in Tehran have launched an unusual defence of President Massoud Pezeshkian, accusing the moderates who backed his rise of undermining him and even pushing for his resignation.

Tehran's state-appointed Friday prayer leader said that defiance of the Islamic veil was tantamount to collaboration with Israel and the United States, underscoring tension in the clerical establishment on hijab enforcement.

At dawn on a November morning in Ahvaz, a city in Iran’s oil-rich southwest, municipal enforcers arrived at Zeytun Park to demolish a small food kiosk that had sustained one family for more than two decades.

Iran’s economy is now defined by a widening gulf between rich and poor and the rapid disappearance of the middle class, with a constant stream of corruption scandals adding to the daily hardship millions already face.

Iran’s judiciary chief instructed prosecutors nationwide to work with security and police agencies to identify what he called “organized groups linked to foreigners” involved in “social irregularities,” escalating the state’s campaign to enforce the mandatory hijab.

Iran has lost 12,000 university professors over the past decade, a former deputy science minister said on Friday, highlighting the rapid unraveling of the country’s higher-education workforce.

Diabetes is appearing at far younger ages than before, Iran’s deputy health minister said on Thursday, estimating that about 7.5 million people nationwide now live with the disease.

Iranian families across several regions described a rapid contraction of their diets in recent weeks, portraying kitchens reduced to bread-only meals as prices rose sharply across the country as reflected in multiple messages shared with Iran International.

Europeans may have intended to pressure Tehran when they demanded last month an end to Iran’s “occupation” of the three Persian Gulf islands, but the move instead exposed how badly they misread Iran’s public mood.

Two Democratic members of the United States Congress urged the Secretary of State and CIA Director to investigate a large shipment of missile propellant precursor material from China to Iran.