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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Muscat on Tuesday for talks with his Omani counterpart, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will travel to Muscat on Tuesday for talks with his Omani counterpart, Iranian state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday.
Iran facing one of fastest economic collapses ever, Bessent says
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday that Iran was experiencing one of the fastest economic collapses in history, as Washington expanded its pressure campaign beyond a naval blockade to target the country's land-based supply routes.
Hardline daily accuses government of scaring Iranians, says there is no crisis
Kayhan, the hardline daily overseen by the supreme leader’s representative, accused President Masoud Pezeshkian’s government on Saturday of frightening the public with talk of crisis, while official data show prices up nearly 89 percent in a year.
Cash-strapped Iranians put multiple organs up for sale
Iranians struggling with mounting debts and soaring living costs are offering multiple organs and body tissues for sale, including testicles and corneas, in an online market where even finding a prospective buyer can come at a price.
VOICES FROM IRAN
Toxic air chokes Iranian cities, residents report health problems
Worsening air pollution across Iran has left citizens reporting headaches, nausea and breathing difficulties, with many criticizing authorities for keeping schools open, according to accounts received by Iran International.
Crackdown on Dissent
2019 crackdown failed to break cycle of Iran street protests
Iran's deadly crackdown on protests in November 2019 failed to prevent successive uprisings, fueling a cycle of unrest driven by economic hardship, restrictions on personal freedoms and increasingly forceful repression.
Iran’s Janfada campaign gives Basij recruitment a patriotic banner
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards are expanding a campaign built around sacrifice for the homeland into a route for military training and Basij paramilitary recruitment, giving a force associated with decades of domestic repression a broader patriotic appeal.
ONE-ON-ONE
Israeli opposition to Islamic Republic transcends party lines
Opposition to the Islamic Republic will remain a point of consensus in Israel regardless of who forms its next government, according to Israeli-American journalist and Iran analyst Emily Schrader.
Fuel and Fury
Petrol restrictions spark public anger, fears of rising prices in Iran
New restrictions on petrol sales have made fuel harder to access across Iran, prompting public complaints and warnings from transport operators that rising fuel costs could push up the prices of goods, officials and industry representatives said on Sunday.
Can higher fuel prices curb Iran’s smuggling problem?
Long queues and empty pumps have brought Iran’s fuel shortages into sharper focus, raising a difficult question: how much would charging consumers more change where the country’s subsidized fuel ends up?
Seven years after ‘Bloody November,’ Iran rations gasoline it dares not reprice
Seven years after a fuel price rise set off one of the deadliest crackdowns in the Islamic Republic’s history, Iran is rationing gasoline more tightly, with lines at stations across the country, but it still dares not touch the subsidized price.
Blair's sister-in-law attended Iran conference linked to IRGC spy recruitment - Telegraph
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's sister-in-law attended a conference in Iran that US authorities later identified as a platform for intelligence recruitment by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), The Telegraph reported on Sunday.
Bus carrying gas refinery workers overturns in western Iran, killing 12
At least 12 workers from a major Iranian gas processing project were killed when their bus overturned in western Iran, as authorities launched an investigation into the cause of the deadly crash.
Democrats push to end Iran war, Republicans dig in
US Democratic lawmakers are stepping up efforts to end the war with Iran after their sweeping midterm election victory, promising legislative action when they take control of Congress in January.
Iran’s Arsenal
Iran state TV says modified missile could reach US base in Britain
Iranian state television has warned that modified versions of the country's Khorramshahr ballistic missile could reach American military bases in Europe, explicitly naming RAF Fairford in Britain as a potential target.
Operation Economic Outcast
ANALYSIS
Iran's oil output plunges below pre-war domestic needs
Iran's oil production fell by nearly half from pre-war levels in October, dropping below the amount its refineries consumed before the war, according to new figures from the International Energy Agency (IEA) and Iranian Oil Ministry data reviewed by Iran International.
GCC says Iran launched over 7,000 missiles, drones at Persian Gulf states
Persian Gulf states told the UN Security Council on Friday that Iran had launched more than 7,000 missiles and drones against their territories since the war began in February, while a senior UN official warned that maritime incidents in the Persian Gulf were occurring daily.
Who is Motamedian, the man tipped to become Iran's spy chief?
Tehran Governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian, a former intelligence official accused of overseeing deadly repression of protesters, has emerged as a potential intelligence minister as Iran considers opening the position to non-clerics.
Nuclear Program
IAEA raises alarm over Iranian enrichment plant it has never inspected
The UN nuclear watchdog does not know exactly where Iran’s newest uranium enrichment plant is or whether it holds nuclear material, more than a year after Tehran declared it, according to a report seen by Reuters on Friday.
Iran’s regime must go for nuclear threat to end, Reagan Institute’s Zakheim says
The Islamic Republic will keep pursuing a nuclear weapon as long as it remains in power, and Washington should keep up military, economic and covert pressure even while it talks to Tehran, Roger Zakheim, director of the Ronald Reagan Institute, told Iran International.
Iran's top clerical governing body calls for nuclear doctrine review
Iran's Assembly of Experts, a body of Islamic jurists tasked with choosing the supreme leader, has become the first governing institution to call for a review of the country's defense doctrine, potentially paving the way for a reversal of the religious ban on nuclear weapons.
SPECIAL REPORT
The faceless judge who sentenced 11 Iranian protesters to death in 2026
A little-known judge in northeastern Iran has sentenced at least 11 protesters to death since nationwide protests erupted in January and served on the judicial panels that sentenced two others who were subsequently executed, an Iran International investigation has found.
EXCLUSIVE
France probes blood freezer hack after blaming Iran for similar attacks
France is investigating a cyberattack on freezers that store blood for hospital patients, its national blood service told Iran International, weeks after Paris blamed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards for hacking the freezers of hundreds of French supermarkets.
Iran’s Northern Frontier
Iran threatens Armenia as US-run Trump Route clears Yerevan’s parliament
Armenia’s parliamentary approval of the Trump Route, a US-run transit corridor running along Iran’s northern border, has set off alarm in Tehran, with officials and state media warning that it would bring a US presence to the frontier.
UK police reveal how men spying for Iran tracked Iran International journalists
The men convicted of spying on Iran International journalists in London worked from files sent from Iran that listed their targets’ photos, workplaces, cars and even the names of their pets, some of it gathered with ChatGPT, British counterterrorism police said.
Iran has money to kill journalists but not for bread, Nobel laureate Ebadi says
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi accused the Islamic Republic on Friday of funding threats against journalists abroad while failing to provide for people at home, after two Iranian men were convicted in London of assisting Iranian intelligence operations.
Iran International spy verdicts don’t end threat to exiled Iranian journalists - CPJ
Exiled Iranian journalists remain at risk despite the conviction of two men in London for targeting Iran International staff on behalf of Iranian intelligence, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists warned on Friday.
SPECIAL REPORT
Iran’s largest ‘private’ bank is run by Supreme Leader’s business empire
Parsian Bank calls itself private. Its own shareholder’s audited accounts say Setad, the business empire under Iran’s supreme leader, manages its shares and picks its board, and the bank has lent heavily to Setad’s companies, an Iran International investigation shows.
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Overseas Operations
Blair's sister-in-law attended Iran conference linked to IRGC spy recruitment - Telegraph
UK police reveal how men spying for Iran tracked Iran International journalists
Iran International spy verdicts don’t end threat to exiled Iranian journalists - CPJ
France probes blood freezer hack after blaming Iran for similar attacks
