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.
An Iranian daily mocks the government of President Ebrahim Raisi for taking pride in the growing number of people writing to the chief executive, saying the soaring figures are in fact due to the escalating woes in their lives.
The 1st International Congress of Influential Women was inaugurated on Friday morning in Tehran with a speech by Iranian Vice President for Women’s Affairs.
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency has released the picture of a man who is said to be responsible for mistakenly shooting down Flight PS752 of Ukraine’s Airlines after taking it for a US cruise missile over Tehran in early 2020.
Iran's Imam Sadegh University's website has been hit by a cyberattack. Following the attack, a picture appeared on the website of the university that said the Black Reward hacking group claimed responsibility for it.
The spokesman for the Iranian Judiciary says Faezeh Hashemi Rafsanjani, a politician and former lawmaker, has been sentenced to jail following conviction in two different cases brought against her.
Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, a son of former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, has been released from jail after serving seven years behind bars for corruption and security crimes.
Iran has executed Alireza Akbari, a former defense official who was sentenced to death over long-running espionage for Britain’s MI6 intelligence service.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi highlights America’s hypocrisy in its claims of defending other nations, saying the United States brought nothing but poverty and misery to any country that they meddled in.
A news website affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) dismisses rumors about an “imminent replacement” of the top security body’s secretary, Ali Shamkhani.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei highlighted the enemies’ “miscalculations” during the recent unrest in the country. He has stated that they attempted in vain to rally the Iranians behind their plot to overthrow the government and disintegrate the Islamic Republic.
An Iranian legal scholar and attorney who has been critical of death sentences given to those convicted of committing capital offenses during the recent protests and riots in Iran has threatened to file a lawsuit against a news agency for “defamation.”
A group of Iranian students hold a gathering outside the French embassy in Tehran, protesting French Magazine Charlie Hebdo's insulting move in publishing sacrilegious cartoons.
Peyman Jebelli, the chief of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), reacts to comments made by his brother in an interview with the Time magazine, suggesting that he may have made the remarks under duress.
Leader of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei says enemies wanted to undermine the country’s points of strength during the recent riots, especially by propaganda.
Iran’s minister of communications and information technology has confirmed that satellite internet has been activated in Iran, but says the number of active devices in the country is now unclear.
A group of Iranians have gathered outside the French Embassy in Tehran in protest against the recent insulting cartoons published by French magazine Charlie Hebdo.
A military helicopter has dropped flowers on the crash site of Ukraine’s International Airlines Flight PS752 that went down on January 8, 2020 in a southern suburb of the Iranian capital Tehran.
The vice chairman of the Iranian parliament’s agriculture, water, natural resources and environment commission has issued a stark warning about the consequences of the drying up of underground water resources in the country.
An Iranian security official has defended a decision to reroute a plane travelling from Tehran to Dubai and ordering off the wife and daughter of famous former soccer player Ali Daei, who has expressed support for a spate of unrest in the country.
Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has ended his silence following over 100 days of protests and rioting in the country saying “spend the money you are using for suppression, to address the problems of the people.”
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says the ground should be paved for a more active participation of Iranian women in different ranks of the country’s decision-making sectors.
