The editor-in-chief of Iran’s hardline daily Kayhan, overseen by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, said Bahrain’s “main demand” is reunification with Iran, stepping up Tehran’s response to a recent GCC statement on the three disputed Persian Gulf islands.
An Iranian lawmaker says a sharp fall in the country’s oil revenue has disrupted imports of essential goods and created new pressure on the economy.
An Iranian water official said the volume of drinking water stored in Tehran’s five main dams has fallen to about 170 million cubic meters, roughly half the level recorded at this time last year.
The number of women imprisoned for debt in Iran has risen sharply, Iran Human Rights Monitor reported on Friday, adding that many are held for extended periods over unpaid loans, rents or other financial obligations.
Former US diplomat John Limbert, a hostage during the 1979 Tehran embassy takeover, told Eye for Iran that Iran's society has radically developed in recent decades even as its ruling system has barely changed.
A marathon on Iran’s Kish Island that appeared to show large numbers of women running without hijab has triggered a fierce backlash from hardliners and a swift criminal case against its organizers.
US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that Washington did not seek to overthrow Iran's ruling system in a wide-ranging interview published on Friday in which he called on Tehran to restart talks over its nuclear program.
Washington remains committed to keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and preventing “outright enemies” from dominating the Persian Gulf and its energy supplies, US President Trump said in his 2025 National Security Strategy.
Iranian lawmaker Fada-Hossein Maleki said on Friday that the United States has sent messages indicating interest in negotiations, but Tehran has no plans to engage.
Iran will face Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand in next year’s FIFA World Cup after being drawn into Group G at the 2026 tournament’s group stage draw held in Washington on Friday.
A UK parliamentary briefing published on Friday says Iranian operatives are increasingly seeking to carry out kidnappings, physical attacks and assassinations against dissidents and opponents in Britain.
A Iranian cleric's skeptical remarks on some cherished aspects of Shi'ite Muslim religious history in a debate show has been met with insults and threats, underscoring the dangers of religious dissent in the theocracy.
Googoosh, a towering figure in Iranian pop music history, told the Associated Press in an interview published on Friday she would not produce new work until after the fall of the Islamic Republic.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said he will return to Iran after completing the Oscar campaign for his latest film, despite being sentenced in absentia this week to one year in prison on charges of propaganda against the state.
An Iranian singer who won a Grammy for a ballad which became the unofficial song for a scotched national uprising in 2022 has incurred fury for announcing the release of an album which received an official state license.
The once-hushed conversation about who will succeed Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not only spilled into the open, but has curdled into public intimidation of contender and former president Hassan Rouhani.
Some Iranian youths disillusioned by poor amenities in the Islamic theocracy are increasingly taking to a homemade codeine drink known as lean, education and health professionals told Iran International.
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The Iran projected on social media these days—brunch parties, rooftop concerts, fashion shows—is real, but only as a tiny fragment of the country’s reality, where most ordinary people struggle to make ends meet.
This week marked the anniversary of a vast Berlin rally in October 2022 gathering tens of thousands filled in solidarity with Iran’s Woman, Life, Freedom protest movement—a day that now feels almost impossibly distant.
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