A senior foreign policy adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday questioned whether a military offensive by Yemeni allies of the United Arab Emirates served the United States and accused Abu Dhabi of imperialist aggression.
Former US diplomat John Limbert, a hostage during the 1979 Tehran embassy takeover, told Eye for Iran that Iran's society has radically developed in recent decades even as its ruling system has barely changed.
A marathon on Iran’s Kish Island that appeared to show large numbers of women running without hijab has triggered a fierce backlash from hardliners and a swift criminal case against its organizers.
US Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that Washington did not seek to overthrow Iran's ruling system in a wide-ranging interview published on Friday in which he called on Tehran to restart talks over its nuclear program.
Washington remains committed to keeping the Strait of Hormuz open and preventing “outright enemies” from dominating the Persian Gulf and its energy supplies, US President Trump said in his 2025 National Security Strategy.
Iranian lawmaker Fada-Hossein Maleki said on Friday that the United States has sent messages indicating interest in negotiations, but Tehran has no plans to engage.
Iran will face Belgium, Egypt and New Zealand in next year’s FIFA World Cup after being drawn into Group G at the 2026 tournament’s group stage draw held in Washington on Friday.
A UK parliamentary briefing published on Friday says Iranian operatives are increasingly seeking to carry out kidnappings, physical attacks and assassinations against dissidents and opponents in Britain.
A Iranian cleric's skeptical remarks on some cherished aspects of Shi'ite Muslim religious history in a debate show has been met with insults and threats, underscoring the dangers of religious dissent in the theocracy.
An Iranian water official said the volume of drinking water stored in Tehran’s five main dams has fallen to about 170 million cubic meters, roughly half the level recorded at this time last year.
Iran’s government said inflation stems from unfunded promises financed by unbacked money printing and bank credit, adding it has capped budget growth at about 2% and halted most other outlays in a bid to curb price pressures.
Despite facing a growing domestic gas deficit and widespread use of highly polluting fuel oil, Iran’s gas deliveries to Turkey have continued to surge according to official Turkish energy statistics.
Tehran’s move to sharply limit a man’s liability for paying his wife mehriyeh—a gift of value promised at marriage—has triggered a fierce social debate, with critics warning that it tilts the legal balance further away from women.
Googoosh, a towering figure in Iranian pop music history, told the Associated Press in an interview published on Friday she would not produce new work until after the fall of the Islamic Republic.
Dissident Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi said he will return to Iran after completing the Oscar campaign for his latest film, despite being sentenced in absentia this week to one year in prison on charges of propaganda against the state.
The once-hushed conversation about who will succeed Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has not only spilled into the open, but has curdled into public intimidation of contender and former president Hassan Rouhani.
Moderate insiders in Tehran are warning that the public’s alienation may have deprived the system of the very vehicle it once relied on to manage public anger.
A lopsided war with Israel and the United States in June rattled Iran’s political order, but it survives through smarter coercion and the disarray of forces that might otherwise bring it down.
Some Iranian youths disillusioned by poor amenities in the Islamic theocracy are increasingly taking to a homemade codeine drink known as lean, education and health professionals told Iran International.
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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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