Iran’s judiciary executed seven political prisoners, including one Kurdish man in Sanandaj, western Iran, and six ethnic Arab inmates in Ahvaz, Khuzestan Province in the south, on Saturday, according to the judiciary’s official news agency.
Erfan Qaneifard, an Iranian political activist and author, has been in a Texas immigration detention center for six months and faces possible deportation to Iran, his attorney told Iran International on Friday.
A measure now before Iran’s parliament promoted as curbing infiltration by foreign intelligence services in practice expands state control over journalists, students, academics and artists.
The United States deported two Iranian asylum seekers to Tehran against their will — shackling them on the flight and delivering them into the hands of the very authorities they fled, their attorney told Iran International.
Canada’s Federal Court has upheld a government decision to block a former Iranian oil executive from entering the country, dismissing his appeal as baseless, Global News reported on Friday.
International sanctions renewed on Tehran over the weekend are already making life harder for ordinary Iranians and may signal an impasse that could lead to renewed war, experts told Iran International’s podcast Eye for Iran.
A top commander in Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel came as a surprise to them, its Hezbollah allies and even the Palestinian group's political leaders.
A Tehran appeals court upheld prison terms totaling 41 years and 10 months for five Christian converts convicted on formal charges of violating Islamic law and spreading deviant propaganda.
An Iranian activist was among the travelers onboard a Gaza aid flotilla detained by Israel in recent days, ending a journey she chronicled in social media postings.
An Israeli court on Friday indicted an Israeli army reserve soldier on charges of spying for Tehran, in the latest case of alleged espionage attributed to arch-foe Iran, which authorities say tasked him with killing his commanding officer.
As Iran’s factions bicker over whether returning UN sanctions are calamitous or mere “psychological” warfare, ordinary people stare into an economic abyss.
Germany wants a negotiated solution to limit Iran’s nuclear program after the reimposition of United Nations sanctions, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said, according to Funke media group.
At least four people were killed and about 20 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a valley on the Damavand–Firouzkouh road in the Alborz mountains northeast of Tehran, Red Crescent chief Shahin Fathi said on Friday, according to Iranian media.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that international law was at risk of being undermined by the United States, he wrote in letters to his counterparts in Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Iran’s ambassador in Colombo said on Friday.
Threats by Iranian hardliners to leave the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) after a June war are likely headed nowhere because of Tehran's keenness not to irritate Russia and China, Middle East expert Kenneth Pollack told Iran International.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday that Tehran can no longer serve as the country’s capital, citing a worsening water crisis that has depleted key reservoirs serving the metropolis.
With Iran's rial hitting fresh depths daily amid new international sanctions, it's helpful to remember how the Islamic Republic's founder viewed the economy. The late theocrat famously said it's for the donkeys.
A verdict looms for a British tourist couple tried in Iran over the weekend on espionage charges just as Tehran's relations with London plumb new lows over a European move to impose new international sanctions.
Iranian officials are downplaying talk of another war with Israel and the United States but US carrier and tanker movements have sparked anxiety as weary citizens weigh readiness for a possible re-run of a punishing summer war.
Washington is seeking stiff concessions from Iran for any peace deal, the Washington Post reported on Thursday citing a US official, including curbs to its missile program and support for armed allies in the region.
Iran’s rial weakened on Thursday to about 1,180,000 per US dollar on Tehran’s unofficial market, roughly a week after the United Nations reimposed snapback sanctions, as President Masoud Pezeshkian urged cost-cutting and efficiency to shield households.