Local News and Views from Iran – The “Local” section is dedicated to political news stories from Iran that do not fall under any of the other main categories, including municipal issues, special interests groups, party politics, and statements from religious figures.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has lauded achievements made by the Iranian Navy after the 1979 Islamic Revolution as “remarkable and unbelievable".
Iran’s Guardian Council stonewalled the formation of an experienced parliament in the country and now its decisions have come home to roost in the form of a highly controversial Hijab and Chastity bill, a religious scholar and researcher says.
Iran’s Sports Minister Kioumars Hashemi on Tuesday relieved the president of the sports federation for the hearing-impaired athletes Mehran Tisheh-garan of his duties after a female runner took part in an even without observing the Islamic hijab, mandated by the country’s Constitution.
Ensafe news, an Iranian online media outlet, says Hojatoleslam Shahabeddin Haeri Shirazi, has been sentenced to several years in jail by a court designated for clerics.
The secretary general of a powerful political party in Iran who has been a fervent advocate of the so-called “purification” move, said to be seeking to monopolize power to government loyalists a few months ahead of the parliamentary elections in the country, has been branded as a “deviant” from the path of the Islamic Revolution.
Iranians have taken to the streets countrywide in support of the people of Gaza who have been under relentless attacks by Israel over the past 40+ days.
The Hezbollah Path, a newspaper affiliated to the office of Iran’s leader, rejects a Reuters report that claimed Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei was critical of Hamas in a meeting with its leader Ismaeil Haniyeh for not telling Iran in advance about the October 7 attack on Israel.
Tehran Peace Museum and the Iranian House of Artists in a joint statement have condemned the Israeli regime for its brutal carnage of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and have asked for an immediate ceasefire there.
An Iranian politician and journalist has harshly criticized the recent move by the Guardian Council to bar a few lawmakers from filing for candidacy in the next year’s parliamentarian elections.
A newspaper has come down heavily on the Iranian government for its “paradoxical policies” of not recognizing the caretaker administration in neighboring Afghanistan and yet hosting a top-level Taliban delegation.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has highlighted the role played by Hamas in the Gaza Strip as the enclave’s legitimate government. He also stated that the war against the Palestinian resistance movement is tantamount to waging a war on democracy.
Former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has denied a claim by Minister of Roads Mehrdad Bazrpash that he had claimed credit for the inauguration of an airport in the northwestern city of Saqez during his tenure.
Cities across Iran are witnessing rallies to mark National Student’s Day, which is the anniversary of the 1979 U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran, also known as the National Day of Fight against Global Arrogance.
The Iranian president has drawn a parallel between the war crimes committed by the now-executed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein in western Iran during the imposed war of 1980s, and the massive Israeli strikes against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
In a groundbreaking revelation, Bahram Salvati, Director of the Iranian Migration Observatory, uncovered Iran's unprecedented status as the world's leading source of immigrants.
An Iranian member of parliament has been the target of sharp rebukes for his ‘arrogant’ behavior in a meeting with some teachers who were complaining about their living and work conditions.
Although Iranian officials are scrambling to allay public concerns over the massive influx of Afghan refugees to Iran and also the government’s recent moves to approach the Taliban administration in neighboring Afghanistan, calls are growing that the trend has to stop.
Large gatherings were held by mothers and children earlier on Friday in many Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran to denounce the ongoing mass killing of children in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli regime.
