Tehran conducted a successful test of an intercontinental missile late Thursday, an Iranian parliamentarian said, after videos shared online appeared to show trails of smoke from the launches arcing upward in the sky.
Two prisoners died in Iranian jails this week after being denied medical treatment, while a third inmate — a political prisoner recently transferred to a hospital — remains in critical condition.
The US State Department on Friday condemned the Islamic Republic's execution of political prisoner Babak Shahbazi this week as proof of what it called Tehran's use of the death penalty to scotch opposition.
The UN Security Council’s decision not to lift sanctions on Iran has heightened the stakes for Tehran, with hardliners pushing for nuclear escalation, reformists urging engagement, and a public already strained by inflation.
Iran’s gas deficit will double in the next 15 years, reaching “terrifying” heights, a senior advisor to the president has warned.
Viral videos of women dancing unveiled in Iranian concerts have reignited debate over whether the apparent social opening is genuine or contrived by a ruling system facing external military pressure and domestic discontent.
Moderates in Tehran—often accused by rivals of weakening the system—are now accusing the hardliners of undermining the supreme leader's authority through escalating factional battles.
Almost 29 percent of registered general practitioners in Iran are not practicing medicine, according to figures cited by local media, which said the trend highlights waste in training costs and ongoing shortages of medical specialists.
Russian President Vladimir Putin personally gave the green light for Israeli airstrikes in Syria against Iranian arms transfers to Lebanon's Hezbollah during Bashar al-Assad’s rule, former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen reveals in his new memoir Sword of Freedom.
Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill on Thursday to stop sanctioned Iranian officials from entering the United States for next week’s United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) meeting in New York.
Sea attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen closed the Israeli Red Sea port of Eilat but enriched the Israeli state by diverting trade to a government-owned Mediterranean entrepot, the port's CEO told Iran International.
Three years after the killing of Mahsa "Jina" Amini in the custody of Iran’s morality police, and in the shadow of the Islamic Republic’s recent 12-day war with Israel, the outlines of a durable social transformation are clear.
Three years after the death of Mahsa Amini in morality police custody and subsequent protests which were quashed with deadly force, the mood among Iranians has only darkened, with many pointing to hardships that increasingly shape daily life.
Iran hemorrhages the value of about four out every five barrels of oil it manages to export, a former senior US Treasury official told Iran International, as sanctions forced funds to be lost in corrupt smuggling networks.
An association of independent Iranian filmmakers has called on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) to overhaul how it accepts films from countries under authoritarian rule, warning that the current system legitimizes state-controlled cinema bodies.
France has selected Iranian director Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just An Accident, winner of this year’s Cannes Palme d’Or, as its submission for the Academy Awards in the international feature category, giving the exiled filmmaker a path to Hollywood that Tehran was unlikely to offer.
Iran has officially selected murky moral drama ‘Cause of Death: Unknown’ as its official submission for the Best International Feature Film category at the 98th Academy Awards due to be announced on March 2.
The Islamic Republic’s mass expulsions of Afghan migrants have not eased Iran’s economic strain nor slowed soaring bread prices, the hardline Kayhan newspaper, overseen by Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, wrote on Wednesday.
Nobel laureate Narges Mohammadi praised Iranian civil society on the third anniversary of Mahsa Amini’s death in morality police custody, saying victims' families have kept the pursuit of justice alive by turning grief into a force for change.
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.
