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Canada imposed sanctions on five Iranian individuals and five entities over what it described as Tehran’s continued human rights violations and restrictions on freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association, Global Affairs Canada said.

A military adviser to Iran's supreme leader said the government has room to deal with Washington, and within hours a lawmaker and Guards-affiliated outlets condemned reported contact with it. The split surfaced as the Guards were reported to be directly engaged in Yemen.

Oil pollution has spread along parts of Iran’s Hormozgan coast and reached the entrances of shrimp farming channels in Sirik, with environmental officials warning that some of the contamination could remain in the marine environment for years.

Iranian authorities executed IT expert Hossein Pedaran after what sources familiar with his case described as months of solitary confinement, severe physical and psychological pressure and a forced confession.

Iranian airlines continued operating international flights on Wednesday after a US deadline aimed at grounding the country’s fleet by sanctioning companies that provide services to its carriers, Bloomberg reported.

A hacked freeway sign in the heart of Los Angeles’ Iranian community directed drivers to a website threatening opponents of the Islamic Republic, in what cyber and security experts describe as a psychological operation designed to spread fear.

Montenegro will extradite Iranian-Turkish hacker Amir Barati to the United States, where he faces charges over a sweeping cyber campaign that US prosecutors say stole research and data for Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and other entities.

Iram offers to reopen Hormuz within seven days if the United States begins easing military pressure, said reports citing a senior Iranian official, as President Masoud Pezeshkian headed to New York and the military portrayed negotiations as another form of warfare.

Travel to and from Iran is becoming harder as major foreign airlines, including the flag carrier of Turkey, a key affordable hub for Iranians, suspend services and new US sanctions threaten remaining international routes operated by Iranian carriers.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards warned they would widen the battlefield and use new weapons if US attacks resume, as two tankers were hit in the Strait of Hormuz and Qatar said it seeks a short-term deal aimed at reviving talks between Tehran and Washington.

An informal market for frozen embryos appears to be emerging on Iranian social media and online marketplaces, where sellers are advertising them for cash outside the country’s donation system, local media reported on Monday.

US President Donald Trump weighed military action, economic pressure and a possible deal with Iran, while Iranian leaders paired diplomatic overtures with warnings over the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday.

Iran’s military threatened sustained attacks on US bases and interests across the Middle East on Sunday, while parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf argued that Tehran must both fight and negotiate.

An Iranian woman sentenced to death over January’s anti-government protests is struggling to walk but has been denied hospital treatment despite a prison doctor saying she urgently needs an MRI, her family told Iran International.

Iranian state authorities organized a systematic, high-level campaign of murder, torture, and sexual violence to crush the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, according to a 1,000-page investigation published by Amnesty International on Wednesday.

A video showing Iranian police beating and sexually humiliating a teenager while officers laugh, insult him and film the abuse has unleashed fury across Iranian social media, with users asking what may happen beyond public view.

The US House of Representatives passed the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, clearing the sweeping measure for President Donald Trump’s signature as Washington also signaled that the Iran war could be approaching a diplomatic turning point.

Some cancer patients in Iran are selling essential household goods or abandoning medication as soaring drug prices and gaps in insurance coverage put treatment beyond the reach of low-income families, a charity director said on Thursday.