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The Islamic Republic’s health minister says a “mild poison” has been causing the widespread poisoning of female students in Iranian schools.

Iran’s march toward nuclear weapons and its deepening alliance with Russia is driving the Middle East closer to war, a scholar has argued in the Wall Street Journal.

US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price says Tehran lies about receiving messages from Washington about resuming negotiations over the nuclear deal.

PEN International and 35 other centers in the PEN literary and free expression network have condemned the detention and suppression of writers, poets and members of the Iranian Writers' Association.

A lawmaker has denied involvement of religious fundamentalists in a spate of mysterious poisonings in all-female schools in Iran but demanded classes be held online.

Criticism of President Ebrahim Raisi and his government in Iran reached a new level during the weekend as the US dollar exceeded 600,000 rials at one point on Sunday.

Amnesty International says Iranian authorities are subjecting Belgian aid worker Olivier Vandecasteele to enforced disappearance, torture and other ill-treatment.

Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened European countries that the Islamic Republic can target them by increasing the range of its weapons.

Two Iranian warships docked in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday the government granted permission despite pressure from the United States to bar them.

Tens of participants at the UN Human Rights Council walked out when the Islamic Republic’s foreign minister spoke at the 52nd session of the body on Monday.

Canada says it has imposed sanctions on 12 senior officials from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Law Enforcement Forces for their role in "gross and systematic human rights violations."

As the strikes and protest gatherings of various guilds as well as retirees continue in Iran, teachers’ main union has issued a statement calling on retirees and others to hold gatherings on Tuesday.

Trading in Tehran markets has largely come to a halt as the currency rial is near its all-time low, Iran International has learned from merchants and traders.

The Islamic Republic police chief has appointed a new commander for Sistan-Baluchestan, the second in recent months for a province where protests have not eased since September.

Russia employed a new tactic in its use of Iranian drones to kill more people in Ukraine on Monday by planning a double-attack, killing two rescue workers.

Sources close to Iranian opposition figure Mirhossein Mousavi say the regime has imposed more restrictions on him after he issued a statement in support of popular protests.

The National Resistance Front of Afghanistan has slammed Iran’s move in ceding the Afghan embassy in Tehran to the Taliban.

The Commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Hossein Salami says the IRGC is ready to expand its ties with the Iraqi military and train its armed forces.

Over 40 percent of candidates running for chambers of commerce in Iran who are somewhat independent of the government were disqualified by a supervisory body.

Canada's immigration minister has told Iran International Ottawa is seeking new measures to support Iranians in the face of systematic human rights violations by the Islamic Republic.

Russia is proposing to help Iran on its missile program, CIA Director William Burns told CBS Sunday, while Tehran’s uranium enrichment program is far advanced.