People in Iran face skyrocketing prices for food and everyday goods, according to text and multimedia submissions sent to Iran International, as the return of UN sanctions slams the economy and deepens anxiety.
Toomaj Salehi, one of Iran's most prominent rappers, has hit out at the treatment of three fellow artists whom Iranian police videos showed shirtless with shaved heads giving what appeared to be forced confessions on alleged crimes.
A court in Tehran has sentenced three prisoners of conscience from Iran’s ethnic minorities, including a woman, to death on charges of waging war against God, Norway-based rights group Hengaw said on Sunday.
Iran’s oil minister announced the discovery of a new oil and gas field in the country's south on Monday, saying it could help ease the country’s growing energy shortages wrought by sanctions and aging infrastructure.
China and Iran have quietly stepped up their mutual trade via barter transactions, Bloomberg reported, exchanging Chinese cars for Iranian copper and zinc to circumvent deepening international sanctions.
China is secretly funneling billions of dollars to Iran through a covert payment system that bypasses US sanctions by swapping oil for infrastructure projects, The Wall Street Journal reported, saying the hidden conduit enabled Tehran to receive up to $8.4 billion last year.
With Russia’s UN Security Council presidency and China’s economic leverage, Tehran is betting Moscow and Beijing can shield it from the impact of UN sanctions through legal maneuvers, committee vetoes, and strategic investments.
Leaked Russian defense documents indicate Iran has signed a €6 billion deal to buy 48 Su-35 fighter jets from Moscow, with deliveries expected between 2026 and 2028, according to reports by Defense Security Asia and Newsweek.
The European Union aims to work with regional partners to encourage Iran to act as a responsible power in the Middle East, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Sunday, as the bloc is reimposing UN and EU sanctions.
Iran's foreign ministry on Monday branded the United States a "law-breaking" country, rejecting any prospect of talks with Washington after US President Donald Trump warned he would again bomb Iran if it resumes nuclear activities.
US President Donald Trump warned that Washington would bomb Iran again if it restarts its nuclear program, speaking on Sunday at a ceremony marking the 250th anniversary of the US Navy at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.
Iran’s naval forces are fully prepared to confront any threat across its islands, coasts, and territorial waters, the Revolutionary Guards chief said during a visit to an IRGC naval base, warning that any move by adversaries will be met with a firm response.
Iran acquitted dual German-French national Lennart Monterlos of espionage charges linked to the recent 12-day conflict, the head of Hormozgan Province’s judiciary said on Monday.
Northern Iran’s once-thriving wetlands are facing severe ecological collapse, with environmental officials warning of an imminent disaster after the absence of hundreds of thousands of migratory birds this autumn, Tasnim reported on Monday.
Hamas’s conditional acceptance of Donald Trump’s peace plan has left Tehran’s hardliners scrambling—pivoting from predictions of rejection to praise—while their detractors watch bemused at their being outmaneuvered by a Palestinian ally.
Military strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites would have only short-term effects and fail to destroy its capabilities, the UN atomic watchdog chief said, urging diplomacy as the sole path to a lasting solution to concerns over Tehran’s disputed nuclear program.
Authorities shut down a sports club in central Iran for holding mixed-gender exercise sessions and arrested the organizers of a “coffee party” on Kish Island amid an ongoing struggle between clerical rulers and the public over social freedoms.
On the eve of a UN vote to restore sanctions on Iran, an independent art book fair in the courtyard of an old house in Tehran provided a rare haven from serial political horrors.
An Iranian man recently deported from the United States described to Iran International grim scenes of neglect and mistreatment in US custody before being chained on a flight to Tehran where fellow detainees attempted suicide to resist return.
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.
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.
Iran’s upgraded Do-Namay 1 satellite, described as the country’s first hybrid remote-sensing and communications satellite, is ready for launch and expected to be placed in orbit in December, a senior aerospace official said.
Cosmetic surgery clinics in Iran are reporting record demand as social media trends push women toward extreme procedures often financed through credit and loans.
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 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.
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.
