If we have a different view of the capacities of this region, we can create a very prosperous and advanced region. It is not good enough to accept the current situation and not design a scientific, accurate and indigenous map for the future, he said.
Just days after UN human rights experts decried a "dramatic escalation" in executions in Iran, the powerful Guardian Council approved harsher sentences for spying and collaboration with Israel and the United States. A spokesman for the Guardian Council, Iran's constitutional watchdog, announced the decision on October 1 following months of back-and-forth with parliament over amendments. This announcement comes soon after a UN panel revealed that Iranian authorities have executed over 1,000 people since the start of the year -- a figure that Amnesty International called the most in at least 15 years.
Some of those being deported held valid US residency permits, he said, but were nonetheless included on the deportation list, with their consent obtained for repatriation. The confirmation comes after the New York Times, citing unnamed officials in Tehran, said a plane carrying around 100 Iranians left Louisiana late on September 29 and was set to arrive in Iran via Qatar the following day.
Tehran says it has offered fair proposals and accuses the E3 of political bias' in seeking to revive sanctions. Iran has hit out at European states that have threatened to revive international sanctions over the monitoring of its nuclear programme. Tehran officials on Friday accused the European states, which have said they will reimpose international sanctions by the end of the month if Tehran does not meet conditions, of political bias and insisted that they have presented fair proposals to resolve the issue.
In response to the June 2025 war between Israel and Iran, mainstream media outlets - both Persian-language and international - largely fell into predictable camps, either backing their preferred state actor or maintaining strategic silence about favored governments' actions. Yet this binary framing has systematically erased the perspectives of Iranian leftist feminists who, even while facing brutal repression from their own government, refuse to be co-opted into supporting external military intervention.
He's been weak on Russia. I think he's been good on Iran, I want to give kudos where they're earned. I think he's been great on Iran, but he has been terrible on Russia, said Bacon a retired Air Force general. We've tried to be-, hoping the president would get to the right spot on Russia and Ukraine, and he's not. And, you know, Biden was weak. Biden's actions in Afghanistan helped fuel this thing with Ukraine. But what I see with this president is even worse, he added.
A protester carrying a dog scaled the clock tower at King's Cross station in London to unfurl a banner calling for freedom in Iran. Footage taken on Tuesday (2 August) shows the demonstrator, who wore a black t-shirt displaying no to war, standing on the edge of the building as a poster which reads Iran belongs to its people hangs below him.
Iran's currency has been sharply depreciating again as European powers push to reinstate United Nations sanctions against the country amid stalled diplomacy and fears of war with Israel and the United States. The US dollar hit a price of more than 1.06 million rials in Tehran's open currency market on Monday, slightly higher than before Tehran and Washington started mediated negotiations in April.
A top Iranian official warned Wednesday that European threats to reimpose sanctions could lead Iran to withdraw from an international pact that limits the spread of nuclear weapons, one of the last remaining safeguards against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program.
Iran is experiencing its hottest week of the year, with temperatures exceeding 50C in some areas, alongside a severe water crisis due to five years of drought and lower rainfall.
Iran, France, Germany and the United Kingdom will hold nuclear talks in Istanbul following warnings by the three European countries that failure to resume negotiations would lead to international sanctions on Tehran.
