The US Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network identified about $9 billion in potential Iranian shadow banking activity that flowed through US correspondent accounts in 2024, the department said on Thursday.
Hardliners in Tehran have grown more vocal in their opposition to renewed diplomacy with Washington following Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s defiant speech this week.
Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s former national security chief, responded to the viral outrage over his daughter’s extravagant wedding with a cryptic but telling line.
The US ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday urged Iran to abandon its revolutionary ambitions and end what he called destructive interference in neighboring Mideast states.
Iran's security chief Ali Larijani on Thursday launched into a withering critique of Donald Trump, likening the US President to Hitler and tarring him as a "mere businessman" whose Gaza peace summit Tehran gladly missed.
A US court will hold a sentencing hearing next week for two men convicted over an alleged Tehran-backed plot to kill Iranian dissident and journalist Masih Alinejad, she said on X on Thursday.
Iran’s Central Bank revoked Ayandeh Bank’s operating license on Thursday, dissolving one of the country’s largest lenders due to massive losses and chronic inefficiency in another sign of gathering economic storm clouds as sanctions bite.
A blunt acknowledgment by Iran’s former state broadcasting chief that the country’s satellites ban and the so-called morality police had become “obsolete” has underscored how the state's strict social codes are eroding in practice.
Iran’s foreign minister said on Thursday that his ministry aims to soften and counter the effects of UN sanctions reinstated on Iran last month which are expected to deepen economic pain.
Iran’s defense minister on Thursday told a senior visiting military-industrial official from Belarus that Tehran seeks to deepen military cooperation with Minsk as both countries grapple with deep Western sanctions.
US President Donald Trump said US attacks in June on three nuclear sites had left Tehran weakened to the point that it is no longer respected, adding in an interview with TIME magazine that his actions knocked out a "big bully" in the region.
On paper, Iran’s law still mandates the compulsory hijab. But the streets tell a more complicated truth.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday there is no doubt that gasoline prices must rise, signaling that long-anticipated fuel reforms are moving closer despite fears of renewed public unrest.
Iran has sentenced a former researcher of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), identified as Amirreza Jalilian, to 10 years in prison after convicting him of spying for the UK, his wife told Iran International.
Iran’s city of Isfahan could face a drinking water emergency within 45 days unless immediate action is taken to halt non-potable water extraction and speed up long-delayed transfer projects, the city’s council head warned, as drought deepens a nationwide water crisis.
Iran has carried out at least 88 public executions between 2011 and 2023, according to a review published by the daily Shargh, which said the practice -- often witnessed by crowds including children -- has failed to reduce violent crime despite declining in recent years.
An Iranian nuclear engineer employed at the Natanz nuclear facilities was executed in Qom last week after being convicted of spying for Israel, according to the Hengaw Organization for Human Rights.
Hooshmand Ramezanipour spoke softly from a refugee camp in Serbia, his voice low and cautious. “There are smugglers here,” he said. “To be honest, I have died and been resurrected many times — both inside Iran and here.”
A hardline commentator on Iranian state television alleged that the Baha'i minority in Iran holds secret allegiance to Israel, in comments which appear to reinforce official enmity toward the group as state persecution continues.
Calls are growing across Iran’s film industry to end state censorship, with thirteen trade unions joining directors and screenwriters in demanding the abolition of film production permits and pre-production controls imposed by government bodies.
Prominent Iranian American academic Mehrzad Boroujerdi has accused ex-security chief Ali Shamkhani of involvement in his father’s killing while a member of a militia group during the 1979 revolution.