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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.
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.
