An Iranian presidential aide on Friday ridiculed US President Donald Trump’s failed bid for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying his record of militarism and complicity in Israeli "genocide" in Gaza belied any claim to peace.
Democratic Senator Cory Booker told Iran International in an interview that Tehran and its armed allies in the region posed an enduring threat to the newly clinched Gaza ceasefire and that Washington must remain vigilant.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Friday condemned what it called the United States’ interventionist military activities in the Caribbean and Latin America, warning that recent strikes against Venezuela could endanger regional peace and stability.
More than $95 billion in foreign currency from Iran’s non-oil exports since 2018 has not been repatriated to the country, the Guards-linked Tasnim news agency reported on Friday, citing official trade data.
The United Nations said on Thursday it could not confirm Iranian Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref’s statement that Secretary-General António Guterres told him the June war with Israel had ended efforts to topple the Islamic Republic.
An outlet close to Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani has republished a 50-year-old interview with Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in an apparent bid to draw historical legitimacy to Tehran’s current hardline stances.
Iran’s Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said UN Secretary-General António Guterres told him the 12-day war with Israel had ended efforts to topple the Islamic Republic, Iranian media reported on Thursday.
A conservative Iranian lawmaker said parliament is reviewing an emergency motion to stop the implementation of Iran’s conditional approval to join a United Nations convention against terror financing, arguing it would expose the country’s sanction-busting networks.
At least 1,537 people were executed by hanging in Iran between October 2024 and October 2025, the highest figure in a decade, the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported on Thursday in its annual report marking the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
The newly published text of a draft Iranian anti-espionage law increases punishments for the use of Elon Musk's Starlink internet technology, including the death penalty if used for spying.
Hydropower generation at the Amir Kabir Dam in Karaj, west of Tehran, has stopped after storage fell to 25 million cubic meters, while lawmakers warned that several provinces could soon face acute drinking water shortages.
Leaked documents and media investigations indicate a Berlin businesswoman allegedly ran oil sales for Iran from her apartment, with the proceeds apparently reaching Iran’s Ministry of Defense through a web of front companies operating in Asia.
The United States on Thursday imposed new sanctions on dozens of companies and individuals it accuses of helping Iranian energy exports and facilitating the acquisition of US chip technology by Iran's military and regional allies.
Fresh research and US court filings have traced an expansive international network supplying helicopter parts and even a full American-made aircraft to Iran’s military.
Former Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that a deal with Donald Trump is possible if it preserves Iran’s dignity and the US president’s ego.
A Russian delegation led by Rosatom Deputy Head Nikolai Spassky met with Iranian Nuclear Chief Mohammad Eslami in Tehran to discuss nuclear cooperation, Iranian state media reported on Wednesday.
Australia’s planned designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as as a terror group will be “targeted and appropriate," a spokesperson at the Attorney-General's Department told Iran International, meaning conscripts may be spared any punishments.
The reported detention of two Iranian green card holders marks “a profound erosion of due process,” international human rights lawyer Gissou Nia told Iran International, saying it represents a growing threat to lawful residents.
A political prisoner’s letter from jail has sparked fresh outrage over Iran’s long-running use of televised confessions to discredit detainees and justify stiff sentences.
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.
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.
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.
