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Wed, 11 Nov 2026 20:42:27 GMT
Iran is adding 23 commemorations to its official calendar, including days marking the US-Israeli war, the killing of former supreme leader Ali Khamenei and the selection of his son Mojtaba as his successor.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 18:45:13 GMT
A supermarket refrigerator might seem an unlikely instrument of geopolitical confrontation. Yet France’s attribution of cyberattacks targeting refrigeration systems to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards brings a distant war into Europeans’ everyday lives.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 16:58:20 GMT
Tehran has dismissed US plans to restrict Iran’s overland trade routes as ineffective propaganda, but Iranian businesses report sharp increases in transportation costs and insurance premiums.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 14:30:32 GMT
Iran would strike US bases in Europe and on distant islands if the United States attacks again, the country’s top security official said, warning countries that host American forces that any base involved in an attack would become a target.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:11:41 GMT
The Revolutionary Guards' unveiling of a new underground missile facility has sparked public anger over military spending, with citizens questioning government priorities amid growing poverty, energy shortages and a lack of civilian shelters.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 12:58:52 GMT
The Group of Seven (G7) foreign ministers warned on Wednesday that they would continue coordinating economic and political pressure on Iran if diplomatic efforts failed to produce an agreement addressing Tehran's nuclear program and regional security concerns.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 11:30:14 GMT
Workers struggling with mounting debts and rising living costs are offering their kidneys, liver tissue and bone marrow for sale to repay debts and keep their homes, the labor-focused ILNA news agency reported on November 11.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 10:21:23 GMT
Students across Iran are attending classes without adequate heating despite freezing temperatures and heavy rainfall, as the government warns of possible gas shortages but insists on keeping schools open, according to accounts received by Iran International.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 08:53:08 GMT
Iran designated Argentina’s navy and air force as terrorist organizations on Wednesday, invoking a 2019 law on reciprocal action after Buenos Aires designated Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 07:33:00 GMT
The US Treasury Department confirmed on Tuesday that Secretary Scott Bessent had relocated from his Washington home to a military base following threats against his life from Iran.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 03:58:41 GMT
Rep. Jim Jordan, a strong supporter of President Donald Trump's military campaign against Iran, was elected House Republican leader Tuesday, placing a longstanding critic of Tehran's nuclear program at the head of the party's diminished congressional ranks.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 02:11:51 GMT
US President Donald Trump says the Iran war is effectively over militarily, but his plan to maintain a naval blockade raises questions about how long the standoff can last and whether it serves the interests of the Arab neighbors he says support it.
Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:38 GMT
An alleged IRGC operative helped coordinate a plot to attack RAF Fairford, a British airbase housing US forces, from a New York jail using coded messages sent through his family, according to a US indictment unveiled Tuesday.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:37:08 GMT
A discussion on Iranian state television signaled cautious openness to future nuclear talks with Washington, with a commentator describing flexibility over preliminary exchanges while insisting Tehran’s conditions for ending the war must first be met.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 22:22:00 GMT
Iran's parliament is preparing to consider allowing a non-cleric to head the Intelligence Ministry for the first time, under a proposal that would also give the supreme leader direct appointment powers over two new bodies within the ministry.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 20:02:27 GMT
The FBI on Tuesday added an Iranian Revolutionary Guard member accused of plotting to assassinate former US national security adviser John Bolton to its Most Wanted Terrorists list and released appeals for information on three alleged associates.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 19:29:00 GMT
A prolonged confrontation with Washington risks eroding Iran’s economy and impoverishing its people even without a sudden collapse, an Iranian economist warned, as Washington appears intent on maintaining economic pressure without renewed major combat operations.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 14:01:53 GMT
Nearly 47 years after Iran's 1979 revolution, a former football chief has asked what Iranians got for its promises, pointing to officials’ children living abroad, oil wealth that never reached wages and a state that answered protests with bullets.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:26:51 GMT
Seventy-one percent of Americans want the new Democratic-led Congress to pass a law ending the war with Iran, including half of Republicans, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found, a week after midterm elections that handed Democrats their largest majorities since at least 2008.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:16:42 GMT
Secretary of State Marco Rubio told G7 foreign ministers in Paris on Tuesday that the United States would keep imposing devastating economic costs on Iran and had options beyond resuming the war or accepting Tehran’s demands, Reuters reported, citing four G7 diplomats.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 13:12:36 GMT
US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Tuesday that he would carry out the military operations against Iran again, warning that American forces remained ready to respond to any further action by Tehran.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 11:50:58 GMT
Iran's Revolutionary Guards unveiled what they described as a new underground missile facility on Tuesday, releasing footage of senior military commanders touring the complex.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:55:10 GMT
Iranian authorities have arrested several people accused of encouraging women to defy mandatory hijab rules on a popular cultural street following a series of security operations and business closures in the area, the judiciary said on Tuesday.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:30:19 GMT
France is weighing measures against Iran, some of which it may never make public, over cyberattacks it blames on the Revolutionary Guards that made refrigerators and freezers overheat in about 700 supermarkets, Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Tuesday.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 10:08:05 GMT
The US military moved tankers and tiltrotor aircraft out of RAF Mildenhall in eastern England on Monday over a threat from Iran, the Wall Street Journal reported, the second British base it has thinned out since a suspected Iran-linked plot at RAF Fairford in September.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:55:29 GMT
Iraq’s government announced shortly before Iran’s national football team was due to fly to Basra on Tuesday that the flight could not go ahead.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:49:18 GMT
Canada on Tuesday reimposed sanctions on 11 Iranian entities, including the national oil and tanker companies and four major banks, that it had taken off its list in 2016 under the nuclear deal, citing their support for Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:17:01 GMT
President Donald Trump’s talks with Qatar’s prime minister come amid a renewed diplomatic push to end the Iran war, but securing terms both Washington and Tehran can present as a victory remains a central obstacle, analysts told Iran International.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 08:15:31 GMT
More than 70% of respondents to an Iran International survey on household finances said they had either reduced food purchases or postponed medical treatment to cope with rising prices, illustrating the difficult choices facing families struggling with Iran's economic crisis.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 04:18:42 GMT
Iranian human rights lawyer Amirsalar Davoudi suffered a heart attack in detention and was hospitalized in Isfahan before being returned to prison a day later following a court appearance, Norway-based Iran Human Rights (IHR) said on Monday, citing an informed source.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 02:28:44 GMT
UN human rights experts called on Iran to end what they described as escalating persecution of independent lawyers, warning that restrictions on legal representation were leaving defendants vulnerable to arbitrary detention, coerced confessions and unfair trials.
Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:56:10 GMT
US President Donald Trump said Monday the war with Iran was effectively over militarily but warned US forces remained “locked and loaded,” while Iran's security chief denied reports of talks with Washington and demanded acceptance of Tehran's conditions to end the conflict.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:20:18 GMT
Two Iranian analysts have offered contrasting assessments of what could prompt Donald Trump to launch another attack on Iran before the new US Congress convenes in January.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 22:03:00 GMT
Four Iranian reformist intellectuals have urged Tehran to seize an opportunity for diplomacy following Donald Trump's midterm election defeat, while warning that the US president could respond to his political setback by escalating rather than ending the war.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:25:03 GMT
Iran's Football Federation suspended board member Farzin Dabiri from all football-related activities Monday after he remained seated during the Islamic Republic's national anthem at a funeral ceremony.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 21:17:00 GMT
I was at a gathering of about a dozen friends in Tehran on Thursday night. It was hilariously tragic to watch a bunch of slightly tipsy people at each other's throats over an election in which none of us had a vote but whose outcome could profoundly affect our lives.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:07:00 GMT
Iran has selected Abdolreza Masgarian, another IRGC Quds Force commander, as its next ambassador to Iraq, according to Iraqi and Iranian reporting, extending a pattern of military figures holding a diplomatic post central to Tehran’s regional influence.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 18:53:22 GMT
Tehran prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a gynecologist who spoke publicly about what she described as a growing trend of unmarried Iranian women choosing to raise children without fathers, Iranian media reported Monday.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 17:23:00 GMT
Democrats' sweeping midterm gains have weakened Donald Trump at home. But do they amount to the strategic victory that some in Tehran are claiming?
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 16:55:37 GMT
France on Monday accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of carrying out cyberattacks that disrupted commercial refrigerators and freezers at hundreds of establishments across the country, summoned Tehran’s ambassador and announced plans for European Union sanctions.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 15:38:14 GMT
Qatar's prime minister held a 45-minute meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday amid regional efforts to end the Iran war, following an Iraqi prime ministerial visit to Tehran and a Turkish announcement of planned high-level US-Iran talks in Doha.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 13:18:32 GMT
Iran signaled a willingness to negotiate an end to its confrontation with the United States on Monday, but insisted Washington must first lift measures imposed since the Islamabad understanding, as disputes over nuclear activities and control of the Strait of Hormuz continued.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 12:53:45 GMT
A 17-year-old Iranian teenager shot dead while helping a wounded protester in January had previously been abducted and tortured by security forces at age 13 for taking part in anti-clerical moves during the 2022 Woman, Life, Freedom uprising, Iran International has learned.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 02:48:03 GMT
Iran is using oil terminals and storage facilities in China to keep sanctioned tankers operating despite US restrictions, according to a confidential document obtained by Iran International and information from Oil Ministry sources.
Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:14:21 GMT
Two bookstores on Tehran's Iranshahr Street were reportedly sealed Saturday, days after security forces cracked down on Halloween gatherings in the popular cultural hub, drawing criticism on Iranian social media.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 22:19:04 GMT
US President Donald Trump said Sunday that further strikes on Iran were unlikely if negotiations produced a strong agreement, even as fresh explosions in southern Iran and attacks on shipping near the Strait of Hormuz underscored the risk of renewed fighting.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 16:01:55 GMT
Task Force Iron Gate, a new US team targeting weapons shipments and other illicit flows across Iran’s land borders and the Caspian Sea, may not fully close Iran’s northern supply routes but could make the arms and equipment Tehran needs harder to obtain.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:21:06 GMT
Severe weather and flooding across Iran have killed four people, injured 11 and cut off access to 190 villages, with emergency teams responding to widespread damage, officials said on Sunday.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 14:02:56 GMT
Iran's Revolutionary Guards warned ships against cooperating with US forces after reporting three tankers on fire in the Strait of Hormuz, while Houthis targeted Saudi Arabia and Israel warned of unfinished operations against Iran on Sunday.
Sun, 08 Nov 2026 13:25:12 GMT
Iranians expressed anger and grief over the execution of three protesters and new death sentences against others, criticizing the United States and the international community for their response in messages sent to Iran International.