Storefronts around Tehran’s Grand Bazaar still sell herbal extracts and cheap vitamins, but behind them a quieter trade thrives: fast-acting sedatives that can leave people conscious yet defenseless and often unable to remember what happened.
Iran’s worsening drought has pushed water supplies in several provinces to critical levels, with officials in Tehran, Mashhad and Kerman warning that some reservoirs are close to the point where routine distribution may no longer be possible.
Tehran is considering suspending or withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) following a Western-backed resolution passed by the UN atomic watchdog this week, a member of Iran’s parliament said on Saturday.
Brigadier General Ali Jahanshahi has been appointed commander of Iran’s Army Ground Forces, replacing Brigadier General Kioumars Heydari, who held the post for more than seven years, Iranian media reported on Saturday.
The US State Department called the death of political prisoner Farzad Khoshboresh an example of Islamic Republic abuses, saying that the establishment is suppressing dissent with violence instead of addressing public needs.
Iranian officials said on Saturday that the massive wildfire burning for a week in the Hyrcanian forest in northern Mazandaran Province was most likely caused by human activity, as authorities investigate suspected attempts to clear forest land for real estate projects.
The Association of Iranian Studies Committee on Academic Freedom on Friday urged top Tehran’s officials to drop charges against five independent scholars, calling it a politically motivated move.
Two Turkish firefighting planes, one helicopter and eight personnel will arrive in Iran on Saturday to help quell fires in the Hyrcanian forest in the country's north, Iranian environment chief Shina Ansari said on Friday.
Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Friday that by the sixth day of a 12-day conflict with Israel, US vice president JD Vance was seeking talks to end the war.
Iran’s nuclear strategy has entered an ambiguous new phase, said veteran non-proliferation expert Mark Fitzpatrick, and Israel’s attacks in June could have left intact Tehran's ability to pivot toward a bomb if it so chose.
US President Donald Trump on Friday said that the United States deprived Iran of its nuclear capabilities with airstrikes in June, setting the stage for a transformed region.
A state-appointed cleric's request to set aside a beachside plot on the southern holiday island of Kish for his office stoked criticism this week after the proposal appeared online.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Friday that the United States and three European powers have “killed” the Cairo nuclear agreement through what he called a sequence of hostile actions.
Land subsidence has intensified across Iran in recent years, with excessive groundwater extraction, drought and climate change driving the sharpest declines in Khorasan Razavi, Isfahan and southern Kerman, the country’s crisis-management spokesman said on Friday.
Tehran’s air reached the unhealthy for sensitive groups range on Friday as pollutant concentrations climbed and meteorologists issued an orange alert for six major cities, warning that stagnant conditions could drive indices toward the dangerous threshold in the coming days.
Iran has made significant investments to restore its ballistic missile capacity, increasing the likelihood of renewed war with Israel, i24 reported on Thursday, citing Western officials.
Iran said on Friday it will respond to the latest resolution by the UN nuclear watchdog’s board, calling it a political misuse of the agency and saying the vote has invalidated an inspection accord reached in Cairo.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Thursday that the United States has persistently pushed for negotiations with Iran on terms amounting to surrender, both before and after the 12-day June war.
The US Department of the Treasury on Thursday imposed broad new sanctions on what it described as a network helping Iran evade restrictions on its petroleum exports and fund illicit activities.
An Iranian–American woman is being held in incommunicado detention in Tehran after her arrest upon arrival at Imam Khomeini Airport in September, according to Norway-based rights group Hengaw.
Iran’s foreign minister said an accord it reached with the UN nuclear watchdog is now invalid after the agency’s 35-member Board of Governors adopted a Western-backed resolution demanding greater transparency from Tehran.
The UN General Assembly’s Third Committee adopted a resolution on Wednesday condemning Iran’s human rights record, in a move praised by the UN rapporteur on rights on the country.