Trump’s speech leaves Iranians guessing before Geneva talks
Iranians at home and abroad watched President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address late Tuesday searching for clues about war or peace—and emerged more uncertain than before.
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China refiners turn to Russian oil as Iran faces rising uncertainty
China appears to be replacing disrupted Venezuelan oil shipments with Russian crude rather than Iranian barrels, despite steeper discounts being offered by Tehran.
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Iranian man killed taking out trash as reports grow of gunfire at bystanders
A 53-year-old Iranian man was shot dead with what live ammunition while taking out his household trash, as videos and witness accounts point to a pattern of security forces firing on bystanders during unrest last month.
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Tehran stays the course as internal warnings mount
Tehran’s political commentariat continues to issue warnings about social fragmentation, economic collapse and recurring unrest, despite little sign that such appeals are influencing decision-makers at the top.
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Khamenei ‘rat’ taunt spills from social media onto Iran’s campuses
A stuffed rat hung by protesting students at Tehran’s Sharif University and removed by a Basij-affiliated student signaled that supporters of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei have effectively acknowledged and amplified a mocking nickname that chips away at his authority.
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Iran’s campuses turn into battlegrounds again forty days after massacre
The new academic term in Iran has begun under heavy tension, with students at several major universities staging anti-government protests and forcing authorities to confront a familiar dilemma: suppress dissent or risk wider unrest.
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Iran developing missiles that may soon reach US, Trump warns in SOTU address
President Donald Trump warned in his State of the Union address on Tuesday night that Tehran is working on the development of advanced missiles that could eventually reach the United States.
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CIA issues rare Persian-language appeal to Iranians for secure contact
The Central Intelligence Agency on Tuesday published a direct message in Farsi on its official X account, urging Iranians to contact the agency securely amid ongoing domestic unrest and heightened Iran-US tensions.
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Mexico cartel violence revives scrutiny of Iran-linked networks
As cartel violence grips Mexico following the death of a top drug lord, experts tell Iran International that Tehran-linked networks may be intertwined with the criminal infrastructure fueling instability across Latin America.
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Shot, chased, denied care: how a mother was left to die in Iran's massacre
A 50-year-old fitness trainer who joined a protest in Esfahan with her two children last month was shot in the head and later died after a hospital refused to admit her and security forces stopped the car carrying her, sources told Iran International.
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Diplomacy over grief: activists condemn Iran’s UN appearance after crackdown
Tehran’s envoy addressing the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday drew sharp criticism from activists, who argued that giving Iran a platform so soon after its deadly crackdown sent a painful message to victims’ families.
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Officials in Tehran claim calm, but prices tell another story
Escalating talk of war and renewed negotiations with the United States may dominate Iran’s political discourse, but the country’s deepening economic crisis is more present in daily life—and no less likely to drive change.
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Fatalism spreads in Iran as threat of US strike grows
A sense of fatalistic anticipation is spreading in Iran as the threat of a US strike grows, with many expressing fear of war but also resignation that it may be unavoidable—or even transformative.
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Trump’s State of the Union may test appetite for Iran strikes
President Donald Trump will step into the House chamber on Tuesday night for a State of the Union address shadowed by the prospect of new US military action on Iran, as his administration sends envoys back to nuclear talks in Geneva and builds up forces in the region.
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A refuge in the dark: The Tehran home that treated protesters for 19 nights
From the night of January 9, a family home in western Tehran became an improvised refuge for wounded protesters, operating for 19 consecutive nights as security forces carried out a bloody crackdown that left tens of thousands dead in the streets.
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Iranian students burn flag, signaling a new phase in state–society rupture
The burning of the Islamic Republic’s national flag at three Iranian universities on Monday marks a new high in the widening rift between the state and the people.
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How Tehran whitewashes its crimes abroad
As Iran’s security forces crushed protests, a parallel operation unfolded online, blaming a domestic uprising on a global conspiracy.
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Iran students adopt monarchist symbols as protests grow for third day
A wave of Iranian student activism adopting the pre-1979 Lion and Sun emblem has gathered pace in recent days, as protests entered a third consecutive day on Monday and spread across universities in Tehran, Isfahan and Mashhad.
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Capital flees Tehran stocks as geopolitical tensions deepen
More than 107. 8 trillion rials ($66. 5 million) in retail money has flowed out of the Tehran Stock Exchange over the past 24 trading sessions, marking what analysts describe as a new phase of liquidity depletion driven by political uncertainty and fears of military escalation.
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Iran protester dies after torture in Guards’ custody, source says
A 35-year-old protester arrested after January demonstrations in Mashhad died in hospital after weeks in a coma caused by severe torture in Revolutionary Guards intelligence detention, according to information received by Iran International.
