Iran blocks access to Pasargadae complex on ‘Cyrus Day’
Iranian authorities blocked roads and entrances to the Pasargadae archaeological complex, including the Tomb of Cyrus the Great, as some Iranians marked the unofficial “Cyrus Day” on Wednesday.
Iranian authorities blocked roads and entrances to the Pasargadae archaeological complex, including the Tomb of Cyrus the Great, as some Iranians marked the unofficial “Cyrus Day” on Wednesday.
Discounts on Iranian crude sold to China have widened to their steepest levels in over a year as tougher Western sanctions on Iran and Russia disrupt logistics and discourage independent refiners already struggling with limited import quotas, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
State telecom contracts in Iraq are giving Iran-aligned companies a key role in one of Tehran's last allies in the Middle East, The Atlantic magazine reported, providing an important lifeline as sanctions and isolation deepen.
The president who once stood triumphant after the 2015 nuclear deal is now under fierce attack from hardliners, with no public defense—a stark sign of how far Iran’s politics and society have shifted in the past decade.
Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani on Tuesday endorsed a defense pact between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, calling for unity among Muslim countries in the face of what he described as common regional threats.
Censors forced Iran’s moderate newspaper Ham-Mihan offline on Tuesday after hardliners condemned its use of a photo of a veiled woman on its front page for a report about a controversial rape case.
Retirees across Iran held protests over the past week, demanding overdue pension payments and relief from rising cost of living according to voice and video submissions sent to Iran International.
US forces destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability and prevented it from acquiring a nuclear weapon, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday while addressing US troops aboard an aircraft carrier in Japan.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov on Monday dismissed suggestions of mistrust between Moscow and Tehran, as tensions rise among Iranian political factions over the Islamic Republic’s partnership with Russia.
The clash over Russia’s role in Iran has reached unprecedented levels, with the parliament speaker publicly attacking a former president and his foreign minister for speaking out against Moscow.
Prominent centrist figures in Tehran are calling for pragmatic measures including a rethink of relations with Washington to address Iran’s deepening economic problems and foreign policy challenges.
A shortage of qualified nurses has left some hospital units unopened, Iran’s nursing chief said on Monday, warning that high living costs in Tehran have discouraged recruits from taking vacant posts in the capital.
A leading pharmaceutical industry figure warned that Iran faces inevitable production disruptions and severe drug shortages by March, as renewed UN sanctions under the snapback mechanism tighten access to foreign currency and strain supply chains.
Iran’s raw milk production has fallen sharply as a new outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease spreads through livestock farms and feed shortages drive up costs, the head of the national dairy farmers’ association said on Sunday.
Economic reform in the country is impossible without energy reform, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Monday, adding that his remarks should not be interpreted as an immediate plan to raise energy prices.
Iranian authorities have shut down the Instagram pages belonging to several female singers in Iran’s Mazandaran province over the past few days, according to local media.
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.
Iran’s Supreme Court has overturned death sentences issued against five Kurdish men from Boukan who were arrested during the Woman, Life, Freedom protests in 2022, ordering a retrial in a local revolutionary court, according to rights organizations.
Zahra Shahbaz Tabari, a 67-year-old Iranian political prisoner, has been sentenced to death by a revolutionary court on charges of collaboration with groups fighting the Islamic Republic, a US-based human rights group said on Saturday.
Eight hundred Iranian activists including political prisoners on Friday condemned as a "tool of repression" a steep uptick in Tehran's use of the death penalty after rights groups reported 280 hangings in Iran in October alone.
Land subsidence driven by decades of groundwater over-extraction is emerging as a direct threat to some of Iran’s most treasured heritage sites, including Persepolis, Naqsh-e Jahan Square and the Tomb of Cyrus, Iranian scientists and officials say.
Iran is isolated and under pressure but its robust counterattacks in a 12-day war with Israel may embolden it to fight another more deadly conflict, author and former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren told Eye for Iran.
Exiled Iranian prince Reza Pahlavi said on Friday that Iran’s resources should be directed toward peace rather than conflict once the Islamic Republic ends, calling for a new framework he described as the “Cyrus Accords” to follow the 2020 Abraham Accords.
Tehran’s decision to skip a Gaza peace summit in Egypt has left many Iranians feeling further cut off from the world—another sign, they say, of leaders who mistake isolation for strength or dignity.
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.
