President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday he was more concerned about political infighting than threats from the United States, state media reported, as the relative moderate faces increasing opposition from hardliners.
The Gaza summit in Egypt and Iran's refusal to take part have ignited fierce debate in Tehran over diplomacy and regional strategy as US president Donald Trump moves to reshape the Middle East.
Three prominent Iranian figures closely tied to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have publicly expressed regret over past decisions they said damaged Iran’s political trajectory and foreign relations.
Iran’s parliament on Tuesday voted down a bid to stop the government from seeking to join a United Nations convention against terror financing, Tasnim news agency reported.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has turned down an Egyptian invitation to attend the Sharm El-Sheikh summit on Gaza chaired by Donald Trump despite calls from moderates not to forgo what they called a historic opportunity.
Most schools and kindergartens in Tehran remain at serious risk of fire, with only three out of more than 6,400 meeting minimum safety standards, a senior fire department official said on Saturday.
President Masoud Pezeshkian is grappling with mounting challenges as both backers and detractors in Tehran direct their criticism at him for failures rooted far above his station.
While top officials in Tehran remain silent on the Gaza–Israel peace deal, Iranians across the political spectrum have flooded social media, some hailing Hamas’s “victory” while others condemned Iran’s costly involvement.
Hardline lawmakers in Iran have once again turned to impeachment, targeting four ministers in President Masoud Pezeshkian’s cabinet, in what critics say is a bid to stall the government rather than to offer alternatives.
Former Iranian chief negotiator Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Wednesday that a deal with Donald Trump is possible if it preserves Iran’s dignity and the US president’s ego.
Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf ramped up pressure on the government to issue ration coupons for essential goods, invoking Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s warnings about the deterioration of the economy.
A senior conservative’s assertion that Iran’s Islamic system is “softly reforming” its stance on the hijab has triggered furious backlash from ultra-hardliners demanding full enforcement of the Hijab and Chastity Law suspended earlier this year.
Hamas’s conditional acceptance of Donald Trump’s peace plan has left Tehran’s hardliners scrambling—pivoting from predictions of rejection to praise—while their detractors watch bemused at their being outmaneuvered by a Palestinian ally.
Iran’s parliament on Sunday approved a long-debated plan to remove four zeros from the national currency, the rial, in a bid to simplify financial transactions and improve the efficiency of banknotes.
A measure now before Iran’s parliament promoted as curbing infiltration by foreign intelligence services in practice expands state control over journalists, students, academics and artists.
As Iran’s factions bicker over whether returning UN sanctions are calamitous or mere “psychological” warfare, ordinary people stare into an economic abyss.
At least four people were killed and about 20 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a valley on the Damavand–Firouzkouh road in the Alborz mountains northeast of Tehran, Red Crescent chief Shahin Fathi said on Friday, according to Iranian media.
Iranian officials are downplaying talk of another war with Israel and the United States but US carrier and tanker movements have sparked anxiety as weary citizens weigh readiness for a possible re-run of a punishing summer war.
While Iran’s hardline-led parliament resounds with defiant statements dismissing the impact of new UN sanctions, a few lawmakers are beginning to admit the likely economic toll.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei blocked any potential signal of compromise before President Masoud Pezeshkian even landed in New York—a move some saw as a reckless gamble but in fact a calculated strategy rooted in decades of survival.
Iran’s Guardian Council on Wednesday approved a bill imposing harsher penalties for espionage and collaboration with Israel, the United States and other “hostile states,” clearing the way for the law to be enacted once signed by President Masoud Pezeshkian.
Once relegated to the world of academic social science, the term "paradigm shift" has gained traction in Iran's political discourse after a punishing 12-day war with Israel and the United States exposed the country's weakness.