Iran’s Assembly of Experts is set to hold an emergency session on Thursday to formally announce Mojtaba Khamenei, a son of the late Supreme Leader, as the next leader, despite opposition from some members who warn against “hereditary leadership,” Iran International has learned.
As war spreads across the Middle East and attention focuses on oil, the region’s most dangerous soft targets may be desalination plants.
The White House says Iran rejected a US proposal to establish a joint civilian nuclear program with American investment in exchange for dismantling its uranium enrichment infrastructure before Washington and Israel launched strikes on the country.
For decades, the wife of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei lived almost entirely outside public view. Even her death was reported reluctantly, as though she had never been there at all.
Iran’s clerical body, the Assembly of Experts, has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ali Khamenei, as the Islamic Republic’s new Supreme Leader, according to his informed sources who spoke to Iran International on condition of anonymity.
A Supreme Leader has been killed. A son has been chosen. And the Revolutionary Guards are driving the process.
As anti-war protesters in Western capitals chant “no war with Iran,” some Iranians inside and outside the country are cheering the US-Israeli strikes and publicly thanking President Donald Trump.
Food distribution and access to basic supplies have been disrupted in parts of Tehran’s Evin prison following US and Israeli airstrikes, with some detainees reporting they are surviving on limited bread and water, according to families who spoke to Iran International.
The United States carried out a strike that sank an Iranian warship off Sri Lanka’s coast in an incident that has triggered a search and rescue operation in the Indian Ocean, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth confirmed on Wednesday.
US President Donald Trump says American munitions stockpiles remain robust while Iran is running out of key weapons and missile launchers amid continued US-Israeli airstrikes and Tehran's retaliatory attacks targeting regional countries.
A boxing gym owned by an Iranian-Canadian political activist and vocal critic of the Islamic Republic was struck by gunfire early Sunday morning near Toronto, raising concerns within the community about possible intimidation targeting dissidents in Canada.
China is pressing Iran to avoid disrupting shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, particularly energy exports from Qatar, as conflict in the region threatens global supplies, Bloomberg reported.
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I am writing this from Tehran after three days of trying to find a way to send it: things may get a lot worse before they get any better.
There is a cruel ritual in Iranian opposition politics: some voices abroad constantly interrogate the “purity” of activists inside—why they did not speak more sharply or endorse maximalist slogans, why survival itself looks insufficiently heroic.
