The family and loved ones of Alireza Sedian, the young man from Farrokhshahr who died on 8 January when Basij forces shot him, celebrated his 23rd birthday at his grave.
Field Marshal Asim Munir, commander of the Pakistani army, will travel to Tehran on Tuesday, 20 October, a day after Sergey Lavrov's visit and amid Islamabad's mediation between the United States and Tehran.
US War Secretary Pete Hegseth met Benjamin Netanyahu on an unannounced trip to Israel on Monday, 19 October, amid consultations on resuming the war with the Islamic Republic.
A body controlled by the Islamic Republic in the Strait of Hormuz has announced it has blacklisted more than 120 ships and threatened them with seizure, confiscation or fines.
Claims of a brain hemorrhage and the death of North Korea's leader have spread on social media, but no official source has confirmed them.
On Monday, 19 October, Donald Trump said that besides the war in Ukraine, the United States is also negotiating with Russia about the Islamic Republic, and called the minimal help Moscow and Beijing have given Tehran very positive.
The family of Alireza Raisi, a 21-year-old protester of the January uprising executed in Isfahan on 5 October, found his hidden grave in the Anarak desert and held a mourning ceremony there.
After a Hamburg court ruling on a plot to attack Jewish figures, the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry summoned the German and Irish ambassadors and called the accusations "baseless".
A US official called the Islamic Republic army navy's claim of a US strike on the Konarak naval base inaccurate; Tehran has yet to present any evidence.
Hossein Mohebbi, spokesman of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, pointed to seven major internet cables under the Strait of Hormuz and said he was reminding the enemy; a new threat to global infrastructure.
Benjamin Netanyahu said he has ordered the army, Mossad and all of Israel's security agencies to work to topple the Islamic Republic, and that the regime must fall.
Saudi Arabia has postponed the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference, due to open in Riyadh on 26 October, to 2027 after a wave of attacks by the Houthis, allies of the Islamic Republic.
DIAR analysis: the logic of the Islamic Republic lives not only in the leader's office and the barracks; wherever victims are weighed by their political identity, the same logic is reproduced.
Pouran Nazemi, a human rights defender from Kerman, has been sentenced in absentia to prison for attending a memorial for Khosro Alikordi, and Front Line Defenders has warned she is at risk of being jailed.
The navy of the Islamic Republic's army claimed that the US struck the Konarak naval base with two light projectiles in the early hours of Monday, wounding two servicemen; Washington has not responded.
Ali Hashemi, the former secretary-general of the Drug Control Headquarters, said the Islamic Republic is launching legal poppy cultivation and that Masoud Pezeshkian has made the plan a priority.
Mostafa Sepahvand, accused of plotting an attack on Iran International journalists, claimed in Woolwich court in London that a man who introduced himself as an IRGC officer had threatened him.
Meeting Abbas Araghchi in Tehran, Sergey Lavrov said Russian specialists are gradually returning to the Bushehr plant, and backed the Islamabad memorandum.
Vahid Vidafar, a citizen of Tabriz, has been held in limbo in Tabriz prison for 75 days, without medical treatment, for liking a post by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamid Mohammadi, a prisoner from Fasa, was executed at dawn on Monday 19 October in Bandar Abbas prison; Islamic Republic officials have not announced the execution.
