Relatives of protesters killed during Iran’s January crackdown challenged President Masoud Pezeshkian’s portrayal of the unrest as foreign-driven, saying their family members were unarmed and had no links to foreign governments, after his UN General Assembly address on Wednesday.

The problem facing Iran’s oil industry is not just sanctions or a shortage of investment. It is a question of governance: who makes decisions, who signs contracts, who receives the money and, ultimately, who is accountable?

Iran on Saturday expanded limited imports of South Korean home appliances through its border trade system, five years after Ali Khamenei ordered restrictions on products from LG and Samsung.

Iran International has established an annual postgraduate scholarship in memory of Farahnaz Espad, one of the channel’s first presenters, who died in August after eight years with the channel.

Tehran prosecutors have opened a criminal case against a theater company after a spectator's phone video showed an actress resting her head against an actor's chest on stage, in a scene the production says depicts a brother and sister.

Iran's Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Mozhdeh Hashemi Bazargani, a 27-year-old Red Crescent worker who said in a recording from Qazvin prison that interrogators beat her until her teeth broke and made her sign a confession, a source told Iran International.

Salman Rushdie says he never intended The Satanic Verses to provoke the reaction that followed its publication, in a new documentary revisiting Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa calling for his death and the attempt on his life 33 years later.

Iran threatened to disrupt regional air travel if its airlines lose access to flights and airport services, as Iraq's Najaf, Erbil and Sulaimaniya joined other destinations restricting Iranian connections under mounting US sanctions pressure.

US President Donald Trump told Chinese President Xi Jinping that direct or indirect assistance to Iran, including intelligence, components and military equipment, was unacceptable, US Ambassador to China David Perdue said Friday.

Social media users in Iran say their phone lines have been cut off after posting political content or liking posts on Instagram, extending a practice previously reported among political activists and journalists.