On the eve of the anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in police custody, families and victims of Iranians killed, tortured or injured by authorities have issued an open letter to world leaders calling for urgent international action to confront Tehran.
The United States marked the third anniversary of Mahsa "Jina" Amini’s death in Iran's police custody on Monday with a statement condemning the Islamic Republic leadership and pledging continued pressure on Tehran.
The Iran-backed armed Houthi group in Yemen is holding back on missile attacks on Israel and are instead launching more drones as smuggling of vital parts from Tehran dwindles amid seizures at sea, security analysts told Iran International.
Ali Larijani, Iran’s newly appointed security chief, courted controversy on Monday by suggesting Americans could be driven to suicide when hearing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describe Israel as a bulwark of American civilization.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday told reporters in Jerusalem that their surprise attacks on Iranian nuclear sites in June helped save the West from attack.
A concert by famed Iranian artist Sirvan Khosravi held on the grounds of what were once the Shah’s palace in Tehran has become an emblem of the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom movement's legacy.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Israel’s September 9 strike on Hamas leaders in Doha amounted to terrorism and warned that no Arab or Muslim capital is safe from future attacks.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi on Monday urged Iran to immediately implement the agreement it signed with the UN watchdog last week to resume inspections at the country’s bombed nuclear sites.
Iran’s nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami told the International Atomic Energy Agency’s annual general conference in Vienna on Monday that Tehran’s atomic program will not be destroyed by military operations, accusing Israel and the United States of illegal strikes on its facilities.
One person was killed and three others wounded in an armed clash at a gold mine in Saqqez, a Kurdish-majority city in northwestern Iran, local authorities said Monday, while a human rights group blamed government forces for the shooting.
Iran’s Supreme Court has annulled the death sentences of six men accused of involvement in the killing of a Basij militia member during the 2022 protests in Tehran’s Ekbatan neighborhood, their lawyer said ahead of the uprising's third anniversary.
Iranian authorities have summoned 10 citizens in the northeastern city of Sabzevar to face charges linked to protests over repeated power and water cuts, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Monday.
Iran’s Sistan-Baluchestan province is grappling with a worsening environmental crisis as drought and intensifying dust storms devastate the Hamoun wetlands, with experts warning of farmland collapse, forced migration and irreversible ecological damage, local media reported.
Tehran on Sunday rejected a joint statement by G7 members and partners accusing Iran of assassination plots, kidnappings, and harassment of dissidents overseas.
Iranian authorities are investigating fresh details in two of 173 cases of disputed land allocations in Damavand and Shemiranat, Tehran province, judicial and semi-official news agencies reported on Sunday.
Young middle-class Iranians are getting increasingly anxious about slipping into poverty, despite salaries that once signaled stability but now fail to cover even routine expenses, Iran’s reformist Shargh daily warned in a weekend report.
Slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk had privately pressed President Donald Trump in the Oval Office not to launch a war against Iran, even while donors aligned with him opposed that stance, US right-wing commentator Tucker Carlson said.
A onetime Iranian security chief whom a lawsuit accuses of torturing anti-Shah dissidents transferred more than $20 million abroad before fleeing to the United States in 1978, the Guardian reported on Thursday citing leaked diplomatic documents.
Time is running out to avert a nuclear crisis, Nicole Grajewski of the Carnegie Endowment said, describing Iran's nuclear program as a complex file where diplomacy is limited, military strikes are insufficient, and Europe’s snapback of UN sanctions risks sparking fresh conflict.
Life in Iran feels suspended, with many convinced war will return and unable to plan for the future beyond how to endure it when it comes.
Iran is awash in voices claiming to speak for its people: state loyalists, opposition figures and self-styled experts of every stripe drowning out the non-extreme yet critical voices with their din.
