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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.
In a striking show of solidarity with Palestine, over 4.7 million Iranians have come forward, announcing their readiness to go to the Gaza Strip to fight Israel that has intensified steikes against the Gazans, according to recent statistics.
Thousands of Iranian demonstrators have gathered in front of the French and British embassies in the capital Tehran to voice their outrage over the Israeli regime's massacre of hundreds of civilians in an attack on a hospital in Gaza City.
Iran’s former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who used to make headlines for his anti-Israel remarks has once again grabbed media attention, but this time for his silence over the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the movement that has begun in Palestine will continue and lead to the complete victory of the Palestinian people.
Addressing Friday Prayers in Tehran, chief commander of Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami described the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation against Israel as the "biggest failure of the Zionist regime since 1948 and the greatest victory for the Palestinian movement."
Millions of Iranians held protest rallies across the country on Friday to condemn Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians as the Tel Aviv regime keeps bombarding the Gaza Strip and imposing a complete siege on the coastal enclave.
Leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has arrived in Tehran as part of his second foreign visit after the termination of his home arrest by the Nigerian government.
The leader of Iran's Islamic Revolution's website has posted remarks by Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in which he makes a thinly veiled reference to the blitz by the Palestinian resistance fighters against Israel.
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad boarded a flight on Thursday to Guatemala after he was briefly banned from leaving the country reportedly over ‘security concerns’.
Security agents at the Imam Khomeini International Airport have reportedly prevented former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from leaving the country.
Iran’s principlist newspaper Kayhan has warned Saudi Arabia of the consequences of normalizing relations with Israel, saying any rapprochement will be met with angry reactions by resistance movements.
An Iranian daily close to the Priciplists has criticized Iranian President Raisi’s wife, Jamileh Alamolhoda, for holding international festivals on women that come at exorbitant costs, questioning the effectiveness of such events on women at home.
The First Deputy of the Iranian Judiciary Mohammed Mossadegh’s two sons have been arrested over links to a corruption case amounting to nearly five million dollars, Tasnim news agency reported.
A reformist faction in Iran calling themselves Kargozaran Sazandegi have held a meeting with former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in the run-up to the 2024 parliamentary elections.
Iran’s education minister has announced 20,000 school principals have been replaced for the new academic year, which started Saturday, “to make changes” at schools.
