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Iran is supplying Shi’ite militias in Iraq with more advanced weapons in preparation for a possible new round of fighting with Israel, Israeli media reported on Tuesday.

Iran’s armed forces said on Tuesday that any public remarks about the country’s military or defense cooperation with other nations are invalid unless confirmed by its headquarters, state media reported.

Iran’s presidential office said a government-affiliated body is reviewing requests from expatriates described as members of the country’s “benign opposition” who have expressed interest in returning to Iran.

Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Monday the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran was a defining moment of national pride that marked the beginning of a long-standing confrontation between Iran and the United States based on conflicting interests rather than temporary disputes.

Iran on Tuesday marked the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran with state-organized rallies across the country, the first such commemorations since the United States and Israel carried out air strikes on Iranian targets earlier this year.

Iranian lawmakers chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” in parliament on Tuesday as they marked the anniversary of the 1979 seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran, state media reported.

US Senator Chris Van Hollen urged Iran to engage in nuclear negotiations, saying it must resolve the issue diplomatically as President Trump signals openness to talks to resolve the lingering impasse.

A US federal judge has found Iran liable and awarded $841 million in damages to 36 plaintiffs whose family members had been wounded or killed in attacks by militant groups in Iraq’s Anbar province, their co-counsel said on Monday.

A US-based rights group condemned Tehran for shutting down one of its oldest child welfare organizations and detaining its founder, calling it an assault on civil society as Iran faces worsening child labor and poverty.

The United States has revoked the permanent residency of Alireza Dabir, the president of Iran’s Wrestling Federation and a staunch loyalist of Iran's Supreme Leader, a US government official told Iran International.

Former Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif said on Monday that the United States failed to humiliate Iran in a June war and that only earnest negotiations could resolve the impasse between the two adversaries.

Pensioners, nurses and oil sector workers held protests in at least five major Iranian cities on Monday demanding fair wages and unpaid benefits.

Israeli-Russian academic Elizabeth Tsurkov who was freed by an Iran-backed Iraqi militia in September offered some of her first insights yet on her captors on Monday, decrying Iran and its regional allies as "brutal ignoramuses".

Charities benefiting the Iran-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah are relying on digital banking apps to circumvent US anti-terrorism sanctions, the Financial Times reported on Monday citing documents.

Iranian security agents detained four and summoned two leftist intellectuals critical of state policies including two economists on Monday, according to local media reports.

As Iran demands strict new "France-style" concessions from Telegram, officials continue to use the banned app freely, fueling public anger and accusations that President Pezeshkian has failed to deliver on a campaign pledge to unfetter internet access.

Ali Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, said on Monday that the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran was pivotal to shaping Iran’s current political and defense standing, arguing that without it “the Islamic Republic might not exist."

The Gulf of Gorgan on the Caspian Sea’s southeastern coast is “taking its last breaths” amid mounting environmental degradation, with lawmakers and oversight bodies accusing national agencies of failing to act on recovery plans, Iran’s Tasnim news agency reported.

Mourners in the western Iranian city of Aligoudarz chanted slogans against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Monday during the funeral of Omid Sarlak, a young man found dead hours after posting a video of himself burning the leader’s photo.

The United States would have to end its support for Israel and withdraw its military presence from the region before any request for cooperation with Tehran could even be considered in the distant future, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Monday.

The spokesman for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said the country’s adversaries are not in a position to launch another war, arguing that their initial objectives of regime change and territorial disintegration have already failed.