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 praised Iran’s progress in various domains, stressing the country has grown in all directions over the past four decades.
Iran’s Interior Minister, Eskandar Momeni, has revealed that the country currently hosts approximately 6 million foreign nationals, vast majority of them from Afghanistan, with at least 2 million residing illegally.
Iran marked the 46th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution and the return of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Imam Khomeini, with ceremonies across the nation, including at Behesht-e Zahra, south of the capital Tehran, attended by officials and citizens.
The 43rd Fajr International Film Festival, marking the victory anniversarry of Iran’s Islamic revolution, commenced on Thursday evening at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran, with a tribute to notable figures in the Iranian cinema industry, including Sirus Alvand, Reza Babak, and Manouchehr Valizadeh.
Seyyed Ahmad Motamedi, former Minister of Communications and Information Technology, has strongly criticized the internet filtering policies imposed by Iran’s Supreme Council of Cyberspace, calling them counterproductive to national security.
In the lead-up to the celebrations over the victory of Iran’s Islamic Revolution in 1979, or Ten-Day Dawn, and the anniversary of Imam Khomeini's return to his homeland from exile, Iranian Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Ayatollah Khamenei visited the mausoleum of Imam Khomeini on Wednesday in southern Tehran.
The Iranian Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement says the most significant security issue between Iran and Afghanistan is illegal Afghan migrants and their movement within Iran, putting legal and illegal Afghan migrants in Iran at 4.5 and 2 million respectively.
Sixty members of the Iranian Parliament have filed a complaint with the Attorney General against the country’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, following his recent remarks at the World Economic Forum (WED) in Davos last week, Tehran MP Mohammad Seraj announced.
Iran has repatriated 586,000 undocumented Afghan nationals from various provinces to Afghanistan via the Dowqarun border crossing in Khorasan Razavi Province.
The managing director of Tehran-based principlist Kayhan newspaper has harshly laid into Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif, after his recent comments in the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, which he interpreted as “begging” for direct talks with the US.
Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif was severely insulted in a small gathering of radicals held in Tehran on Saturday over his recent remarks at the Davos meeting, with some protesters demanding his execution.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has paid a visit to an exhibition held in Tehran to showcase the achievements of Iran's private sector.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian warned on Monday of the critical issues facing the capital Tehran's development, emphasizing that the current development trajectory is unsustainable and could lead to the city's downfall.
Iran's Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Sattar Hashemi, has clarified that all social media platforms are included in the internet unblocking process with no exception.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has offered his condolences over the martyrdom of two high-profile Iranian judges in an attack in Tehran.
Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has called for an urgent investigation to identify the perpetrators of a terrorist attack at the Supreme Court building in downtown Tehran, in which two high-profile judges were assassinated.
A member of the Iranian Parliament's Councils and Internal Affairs Committee has admitted that Iran faces challenges in managing illegal migrants, stating that the actual number of foreign nationals in Iran is much higher than the reported figures.
Iranians across the nation are celebrating Father's Day and Men's Day on Tuesday with tributes and joyous gatherings, honoring the birth anniversary of Imam Ali, the first Shia Imam.
The Iranian English-language daily, Tehran Times, has refuted claims recently made by The Washington Post regarding the succession of the Iranian Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei.
Authorities in Iran’s Hormozgan Province have uncovered a two-kilometer illegal branch of an aircraft fuel pipeline in the port city of Bandar Abbas, southern Iran.
The 27th Muhammad Rasulullah Division of Greater Tehran held the "Raheyaan Quds", or Wayfarers of Quds, exercise on Friday as part of the Great Prophet 19 military drills conducted by the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC) in the country.
Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi recently visited the charity bazaar of the Diplomatic Women's Association of the Foreign Ministry, accompanied by his wife, Ms. Arezu Ahmadvand.
Iran’s Vice President for Strategic Affairs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, has rebuked the legal action taken against prominent Iranian intellectual and economist, Mohsen Renani, to suspend his website and Telgram channel, which the judiciary deemed ‘criminal.’
An advisor to former Iranian president Hassan Rouhani has criticized member of Iran’s Expediency Council Saeed Jalili for blaming the assassination of General Qassem Soleimani, the anti-terror icon, by the US in 2020.
