Two medical staff detained on security charges in Iran
Iranian security forces arrested a doctor and an anesthesia nurse from a hospital in Najafabad, in central Iran, on Saturday on security-related charges, Iran International has learned.
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Iran secretly buries executed Swedish citizen at site linked to mass graves
Iran's security agents secretly buried the body of Iranian-Swedish citizen Kourosh Keyvani in the Khavaran area outside Tehran after he was executed in March on charge of spying for Israel, sources familiar with the matter told Iran International.
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Iran bars jailed British couple from seeing each other
British couple Lindsay and Craig Foreman, sentenced to 10 years in prison on espionage charges in Iran, have been barred from visiting each other in Tehran’s Evin prison for three weeks, sources familiar with the matter told Iran International.
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Abroad they talk, at home they hang
One thing never stops here: executions. War or no war, talks or no talks, crisis or calm, the machinery moves at its own pace: steady and unbroken, as if insulated from everything else.
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Islamic Republic puts another political prisoner to death
The Islamic Republic executed another political prisoner in Urmia prison on Sunday, the judiciary reported, identifying him as Mehrab Abdollahzadeh.
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Two more men hanged in Iran as authorities ramp up executions
Iran executed two more men on Saturday after the Supreme Court upheld their death sentences for spying for Israel and cooperating with the Mossad intelligence service.
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Jailed Iranian Nobel laureate hospitalized after losing consciousness twice
Iranian Nobel Peace Prize laureate Narges Mohammadi was urgently transferred from Zanjan Prison to a hospital on Friday after losing consciousness twice and suffering a severe deterioration in her health, her lawyer and the Narges Foundation said.
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Tehran residents face eviction from hotels after war damage
Dozens of residents in Tehran displaced by a 40-day war with the US and Israel said municipal authorities ordered them to vacate temporary hotel housing despite unsafe homes and limited aid, according to interviews published by Etemad newspaper on Thursday.
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Iran ranks near bottom as press curbs deepen worldwide
Iran ranked among the world’s worst countries for press freedom in 2026 as global conditions hit a 25-year low, with legal pressure on journalists intensifying across multiple regions, Reporters Without Borders said.
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Soaring prices push medicine beyond Iranians' reach
Medicine prices in Iran have surged sharply in recent weeks, with some drugs rising by as much as 380%, according to reports received by Iran International, as the country grapples with soaring inflation, a collapsing currency and worsening wartime disruption.
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Tehran is pricing out its daughters
For years, young women from smaller cities and conservative families came to Tehran to study, to work, to breathe. Now, one by one, many are being forced to leave.
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Iran’s water crisis: Mafia or a system by design?
Iran’s water crisis did not begin with a “water mafia,” but with a state model built on self-sufficiency, laws that gave the government broad control over water, subsidized water, and mega-projects that turned scarcity into a map of conflict.
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Iran designers reject ‘discriminatory’ tiered internet access
Iran’s Graphic Designers Society refused to make a collective request for the so-called “Internet Pro” access for its members, calling the tiered internet plan “discriminatory.
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UK releases man jailed for spying on Iran International in 2023 terror plot
A man jailed in the UK for conducting surveillance on Iran International has been released early and deported to Austria, despite being sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison for gathering intelligence that could have aided a terrorist attack.
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Three Baha’i women jailed in southeast Iran, one of them pregnant
Three Baha’i women from Rafsanjan, a city in Iran’s southeastern Kerman province, were sent to prison on Saturday to serve four-month sentences on the charge of “propaganda against the system,” according to information received by Iran International.
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Iran executes former atomic agency employee over alleged spying for Israel
Iran executed a man who worked at a “sensitive organization” early on Wednesday after convicting him of spying for Israel, the judiciary said.
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Iran crackdown reaches cemeteries as graves of slain protesters defaced
Iranian authorities have stepped up pressure on families of those killed in January protests, defacing, destroying or covering graves with cement in the northern city of Rasht and the capital Tehran, local sources told Iran International.
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Iranian assaulted in London amid concern over threats to regime critics
Iran International has received reports that an Iranian man was violently assaulted in central London. The Metropolitan Police are understood to be investigating.
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Iran International says London attack part of campaign to silence it
An attempted attack near the London studios of Iran International has heightened concerns over what the broadcaster says is a growing campaign of intimidation targeting its staff.
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Statement by the Iran International Editorial Board on escalating threats and intimidation
Iran International condemns the attempted attack near its London studios on the evening of 15 April.
