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The United Sates is “robustly engaged” with enforcing sanctions on Iran and regularly engages with China to discourage violations, the State Department said Tuesday.

Despite haphazard state measures such as injecting dollars into the currency market and selling gold on the stock market, inflation is soaring and the rial maintains a downward trend.

A member of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce says that the scope of US sanctions has been extended to friendly countries, including China, the UAE, and Iraq.

The Biden Administration will pressure China to stop importing Iranian crude oil, US Special Envoy for Iran Robert Malley told Bloomberg television on Tuesday.

Several young Iranians who lost one or both eyes after security forces fired pellets at their faces, say they do not regret having protested against the regime.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has said that the United States is in no position to even speak about human rights.

Official data show a surge of about 5,000 deaths in the Iranian month of Aban, which corresponds with days the regime intensified its crackdown on nationwide protests.

In a meeting with the Syrian defense minister, Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said the Islamic Republic is ready to help Damascus financially in rebuilding the country.

Despite the efforts of Iran’s sport ministry to downplay the sexual abuse of 15 teenage football students, a copy of the complaint letter of the parents shows the ministry was aware of the incident for 3 weeks.

A regime insider close to Iran's ruling circles says turnout in the next parliamentary election is likely to be as low as 15 percent in the capital Tehran.

The European Union has sanctioned a company and its manager for violating human rights through the sale of Chinese Tiandy video surveillance equipment in Iran.

An Iranian football player has been banned from playing for his team after he refused to celebrate a winning match, saying the people of Iran are in mourning.

Iran slammed new sanctions imposed by the European Union and Britain and said it would retaliate, although the EU stopped short of listing the IRGC as terror group.

An activist group says sixteen young people arrested in Urumieh in November, including several minors, have been tortured and threatened with rape to incriminate each other.

The United States has lauded the punitive measures by European countries against officials of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards.

The Biden administration Monday imposed sanctions on Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) Cooperative Foundation and some senior Iranian officials.

Iran’s foreign minister says EU foreign policy chief’s hints that the body would not list IRGC as a terrorist outfit proves that the bloc is not seeking to take costly measures.

The United States and Israel Monday launched one of their biggest joint military war games, with thousands of forces, a dozen ships, and 142 aircraft, including nuclear-capable bombers.

Amid new sanctions by Western countries on Iran’s Revolutionary Guard for human rights violations and other mischiefs, the multi-role organization is ramping up Syria’s air defense system, despite rampant poverty in Iran.

A group of people have held a gathering in Zaventem airport in Brussels on Monday to stop the expulsion of two Iranian refugees by the Belgian government.

Britain on Monday sanctioned more Iranian figures over human rights violations including the recent execution of British-Iranian dual national Alireza Akbari.