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German foreign ministry says the authorities of the Islamic Republic have denied the arrest of a German citizen in Iran reported earlier this week.

Following a large protest rally in Iran’s southeastern city Zahedan on Friday, security and intelligence agents launched a new wave of arrests aimed at young people.

Iran’s foreign minister claims the Islamic Republic does not recognize Russia's annexation of occupied Ukrainian territories.

Iran’s sports minister has ordered an investigation into alleged sexual abuse of minors at a football school in the northeast of the country.

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the parliament speaker threatened Europe on Saturday that listing the IRGC a terror group will bring consequence.

The commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened European states that they will “suffer the consequences” if they designate the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

A top US national security official says Iran did not take the nuclear negotiations seriously and, instead, decided to brutalize its people and support Russia’s war in Ukraine.

At the start of the work week in Iran on Saturday, the national currency reached new lows against the US dollar, as economic and political uncertainty continued.

Jalil Rahimi Jahanabadi, a lawmaker from northeast Iran, has said that “our policies anger the young generation,” and our economy has a mafia-like structure.

A stonemason who was hired to make a gravestone for executed protester Mohammad Hosseini has been arrested by Iran’s security agents.

Mowlavi Abdolhamid delivered yet another fiery sermon in southeastern Zahedan Friday while another Sunni imam, Mowlavi Gorgij, was put under house arrest in northern Iran.

As Tehran intensified threats against Europe over prospects of designating the IRGC as a terrorist group, hardliner daily Kayhan threatened military attack on EU forces.

As the European Council is set to decide about European Parliament’s call to list Iran’s Revolutionary Guard as a terror group, the Netherlands has already expressed its support.

An Iranian hardliner, Mohammad-Javad Larijani from an influential family has said that the nuclear deal, JCPOA, “is dead but unfortunately not buried, and it smells.”

While many Iranians welcomed the European Parliament’s resolution that calls on EU to list the Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist group, regime officials have threatened to respond.

Panama’s shipping registry says it has withdrawn its flag from 136 vessels linked to Islamic Republic in the last four years, denying claims it is knowingly helping Iran violate sanctions.

The German foreign ministry confirmed Friday that a plan to sanction more members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard will be on the agenda at EU foreign ministers meeting on Monday.

Some Iranian ‘moderate conservative’ politicians suggest that Iran should act to compensate for the damage and isolation caused by a problematic foreign policy.

Speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has criticized the motion passed by the European Parliament to list the IRGC as a terrorist organization.

Ali Khamenei’s representative in Sistan-Baluchestan Province has strongly blamed the Raisi government for the shortcomings in the impoverished and restive region.

Imprisoned civil and human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has released a harrowing account of what is happening inside the women's ward of Tehran’s notorious Evin prison.