Tehran has condemned US plans to develop Armenia’s Zangezur corridor as part of a peace deal with Azerbaijan, branding it a challenge to regional security, a senior Iranian diplomat said.
Tanker tracking data obtained by Iran International shows sharp fluctuations in Iranian oil discharges at Chinese ports this year, alongside a steep rise in floating oil stocks.
The head of Iran’s parliamentary National Security and Foreign Policy Committee said on Sunday that no time or place has been set for new talks with the US as an ongoing review looks set to conclude that negotiations with the US are unjustified.
The Islamic Republic has relocated its surviving nuclear scientists to safe houses in Tehran and northern Iran after Israeli airstrikes killed several of them during the June conflict, The Telegraph reported on Saturday citing Iranian and Israeli sources.
The closure of several foreign embassies in Tehran during and after the 12-day war with Israel has left between 3,000 and 4,000 Iranian passports stuck in diplomatic missions, stranding visa applicants, Iranian officials said on Sunday.
Cyber operations between Israel and Iran have intensified since June’s brief war despite a ceasefire, the Financial Times reported, citing Israeli officials and cybersecurity experts.
Three suspected militants and a police officer were killed in an armed clash in the southeastern Iranian city of Saravan, police in Sistan and Baluchestan province said on Sunday, in the latest violence to hit the restive region.
Iranian authorities have threatened dozens of journalists at London-based broadcaster Iran International, along with hundreds of their relatives, in a bid to force them to resign, Forbes reported.
Several Iranian officials have bristled at Donald Trump’s mocking remarks about the slain commander Qasem Soleimani, calling his assassination in a 2020 US drone strike an act of terrorism that should have been avenged by killing American leaders.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities in June in a way that limited the scope of the conflict and avoided a broader war.
Iran’s president said on Saturday that Israel’s attack on the country during the June 12-day war was carried out under US direction and in pursuit of Washington’s objectives.
Lebanon on Saturday strongly condemned the remarks made by a top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader about Beirut's decision to disarm Tehran-backed Hezbollah, warning the Islamic Republic against interfering in its internal affairs.
Former Iranian nuclear negotiator and senior diplomat turned Princeton academic Hossein Mousavian has left the university in what is described by Princeton as retirement, while activists call it a dismissal following sustained campaign pressures.
The Financial Action Task Force has invited Islamic Republic representatives to attend talks in Spain aimed at ending a seven-year impasse over the country’s blacklisting, Iran’s economy minister said.
The Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel was the result of years of planning by Iran, Mohsen Mahdian, managing editor of the state-run Hamshahri daily, said on Friday in remarks published on Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s official website.
More than one million migrants were returned from Iran to Afghanistan over the past 100 days, including 450,000 from Tehran province, Tehran’s governor said on Saturday.
Iran’s revamp of a top national security body signals a ruling system in decline, former US State Department official Len Khodorkovsky told Eye for Iran, calling it “pure theater” and likening it to “rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.”
The United States on Friday called the reappointment of veteran powerbroker Ali Larijani to lead Iran's Supreme National Security Council a step back to failed strategies, saying the Iranian people deserve forward-looking leadership.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed Ali Larijani as his personal representative to the Supreme National Security Council, two days after President Masoud Pezeshkian named Larijani as the council’s secretary.
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.
More than 600 political prisoners were transferred back to Tehran’s Evin Prison early Friday, jailed activist Mehdi Mahmoudian said, after being held in Greater Tehran Penitentiary since the June 23 Israeli missile strike that damaged the facility.
Steep increases in the price of dairy products are putting unprecedented pressure on Iranian households, with many consumers saying they have stopped buying milk, yogurt and cheese altogether, according to accounts gathered by Iran International from across the country.
Iranian officials say Tehran could run out of water within weeks, but climatologist Dr. Nasser Karami tells Eye for Iran the crisis transcends drought and is a product of government mismanagement, militarized agriculture and deliberate manipulation.
Buying, selling, and drinking alcohol in Iran is illegal and still risky. But over the years, something has shifted. Whispers spread: some restaurants let customers bring their own drinks. Then, a few began serving alcohol under code names.
As Tehran insists in nuclear talks on its right to enrich uranium, many Iranians wonder why this right that has cost us so much in terms of sanctions and squeezed livelihoods has been elevated over the lost ones we actually care about.
