Blood reserves supplying 180 hospitals across Tehran have dropped after two weeks of heavy smog and widespread remote working reduced donor turnout, provincial officials said, warning the shortfall is beginning to affect daily supply plans.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio cast Venezuela as a regional platform for Iranian influence, describing Nicolás Maduro’s government as a narcotics transit hub that hosts Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.
Tehran warily watches events in the Caribbean as its ally Venezuela faces the largest US military deployment in the region in decades, which US officials describe as a bid to confront narco-terrorism
Iran’s foreign ministry accused the United States of endangering international peace at its weekly briefing on Monday, responding to Washington’s latest warnings against Venezuela.
China’s independent refiners are stepping up purchases of Iranian crude held in bonded storage and on tankers idling offshore after Beijing issued a fresh round of import quotas late last month, Bloomberg reported.
An Iranian taekwondo athlete withdrew from the world under 21 championships in Kenya after the competition draw placed her against an Israeli opponent in the first round.
Cybersecurity firm ESET said it found new activity by the Iran aligned MuddyWater group that targeted critical infrastructure in Israel and one organization in Egypt.
Iran’s IRGC Navy will launch a two day exercise on Thursday in the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, the Oman Sea and around the country’s southern islands, state media said.
Iranians report rising prices and sporadic shortages of everyday goods and groceries, making it harder to cover basic needs and put food on the table, according to messages sent to Iran International.
President Donald Trump on Tuesday said US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities in June curbed Tehran's regional dominance and rendered Iraq more friendly to the United States.
Soaring psychotherapy costs in Iran are forcing many patients to sell personal belongings or take on debt yet large numbers still abandon treatment due to the steep fees, the Tehran-based daily Ham-Mihan newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Iran’s online media regulator has suspended the platform streaming a hit reality show after a segment showing contestants pelting targets resembling ancient Persian emblems sparked a public backlash, the latest move in a push to rally support via once-taboo nationalism.
A state body in Iran tasked with purveying Islamic values concealed the conviction of a senior official for raping and sexually assaulting his young daughters, a source in the Islamic Ideology Dissemination Organization (IIDO) told Iran International.
UN human rights experts urged Iran to halt the execution of a 25-year-old victim of child marriage whose death sentence is scheduled to be carried out this month after allegedly killing her abusive husband during a domestic dispute.
The revelation that Iranian journalists received government-issued SIM cards for unfettered access internet access while most users endured heavy state censorship has led to accusations that their privilege skewed their output.
Every transaction linked to Iran — no matter how small — must now be treated as high-risk under newly tightened regulations introduced by Canada last week, a move experts warn could fall hardest on ordinary Iranians.
Iran’s fractious parliament is the crosshairs of increasingly strident criticism as factional infighting has precluded any concerted response to a deepening economic and ecological crisis.
Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani said Iran remains in a fragile security limbo months after the 12-day war in June, warning that the country cannot restore stability or economic confidence without rebuilding deterrence and addressing persistent public insecurity.
More than 150 Iranian lawmakers have accused the judiciary of failing to act against growing public defiance of the hijab, saying inaction has fueled what they called lawlessness in society, state media reported on Tuesday.
Germany’s embassy in Tehran is operating with sharply reduced visa capacity and expects constraints to persist, the Foreign Office said, citing Iran’s restrictive accreditation of diplomatic staff and significant technical hurdles at post.
The US State Department’s Persian-language account on X criticized Iranian authorities over the detention of guests at a private birthday gathering in Tehran and the in-absentia sentencing of award-winning filmmaker Jafar Panahi.
Prominent Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has been sentenced one year in prison for alleged propaganda against the Islamic Republic, his lawyer said on X, as his latest film may be up for an international feature Oscar.
Iranian police detained more than 20 people during a raid on a birthday party at a film star’s home in Tehran and seized 38 liters of homemade alcohol, Iranian media reported.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said a 12-day war with Israel in June allowed Tehran to close many security gaps, calling it a miscalculation by the Jewish state that would end with the same result if repeated.
Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Ankara would do “whatever we can” to help resolve Iran’s nuclear issue through dialogue and international law, Iranian state media reported on Sunday, following talks in Tehran with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi.
The UN nuclear watchdog’s latest rebuke shows that Iran’s turn to nuclear ambiguity is deepening concerns and may accelerate an escalation that all sides insist they want to avoid.
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Host of nightly show The Program
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The Iran projected on social media these days—brunch parties, rooftop concerts, fashion shows—is real, but only as a tiny fragment of the country’s reality, where most ordinary people struggle to make ends meet.
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.
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