The reimposition of UN sanctions on Iran, atop the US sanctions President Masoud Pezeshkian had pledged to lift during his election campaign, has disillusioned many of his moderate supporters and prompted hardliners to call for his resignation.
Finnish Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen called Iranian state television’s decision to blur her legs during a broadcast of her UN meeting with Iran’s foreign minister a “sad” reflection of women’s treatment in the country.
A senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader said Tehran should consider joining a new Saudi-Pakistani defense pact while vowing to strengthen its offensive military power after the recent 12-day war with Israel and the United States.
Iran’s central bank said it will inject $500 million into the currency market from Monday to ease pressure on the rial after weeks of sharp volatility, state media reported.
Iran’s clerical leaders are facing one of their deepest crises since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, caught between a worsening economic squeeze and renewed international pressure after the United Nations reimposed sanctions, Reuters reported.
France, Germany and the United Kingdom said on Sunday that the reimposition of United Nations sanctions on Iran was unavoidable after what they described as Tehran’s persistent breaches of the 2015 nuclear deal.
Israel is on heightened alert after the United Nations reinstated sanctions on Iran under the snapback mechanism, amid fears in Jerusalem that Tehran could accelerate its nuclear activities, Ynet reported on Sunday.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Sunday rejected US and European efforts to restore UN sanctions, saying that “no obligation” rests on Tehran or other member states to abide by resolutions that were terminated in 2015.
All UN sanctions suspended under the 2015 deal with Iran snapped back into force at 8 pm Eastern Time on September 27, one month after European powers triggered the so-called "snapback" mechanism. What are they, and what impact will they have?
Western countries demanded Iran surrender its stocks of highly enriched uranium in exchange for only a few months of relief from UN sanctions, Iranian authorities said on Saturday, calling the offer humiliating.
Iran has imposed new limits on stablecoin transactions, capping annual purchases at $5,000 per person and total holdings at $10,000, authorities announced on Saturday, as the rial plunged to a record low on the eve of the return of UN sanctions.
A documentary released by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry claiming infiltration into Israel has drawn ridicule from both opposition groups and hardline loyalists of the Islamic Republic who criticized it for relying on public images and exaggerating its claims.
Iran’s top security official, Ali Larijani, traveled to Beirut on Saturday to attend memorial ceremonies for the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, announcing his support for Lebanon’s role as a frontline of resistance against Israel.
The human rights situation in Iran has worsened sharply since the June attacks by the United States and Israel and the Islamic Republic’s response, according to a new United Nations report to be formally presented in New York on October 30.
The Islamic Republic does not seek conflict but would respond forcefully to aggression, said Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian in an interview with NBC on Friday.
Iran is sliding into stagflation that could spark unrest, economists warn, as official data reveal the first economic contraction in four years on the eve of the UN sanctions returning.
US President Donald Trump used his UN General Assembly address to take a “victory lap” on Iran, but an analyst warns Tehran’s nuclear and ballistic ambitions remain unresolved.
Three Iranian men accused of working with Tehran’s intelligence services to target UK-based journalists pleaded not guilty during a preparatory hearing at the Central Criminal Court in London on Friday.
On the eve of the return of UN sanctions against Iran, all sides insist the doors of diplomacy remain open, but the table beyond those doors looks less like one for negotiation than for autopsy—an exercise in assigning blame for a failure long deemed inevitable.
In a 4–9 vote with two abstentions, the UN Security Council on Friday rejected a Russian-Chinese proposal to delay the snapback of UN sanctions on Iran, which are set to be reinstated Saturday night, 30 days after being triggered by the Europeans.
Iran’s nuclear program can never be destroyed and the United States will face consequences if it launches new attacks, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani said.