Amir Darzadehpour, a prisoner from Baluchestan, was executed in Zahedan prison on Saturday 17 October, and Amin Ghoddousian, a 27-year-old from Rask, has disappeared after his arrest in Chabahar.
Citizens report receiving text messages from a number belonging to the FARAJA intelligence organisation threatening them with judicial action over their activity on social media.
Branch 2 of the Karaj Revolutionary Court has sentenced Homayoun Shabankar, a 22-year-old protester in the January uprising and animal rights activist, to death on a charge of espionage.
Foreign ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council in Manama called for the Houthis to be designated terrorists and held the Islamic Republic responsible for attacks on the Gulf states and Jordan.
Abbas Araghchi lashed out at Emmanuel Macron after he blamed France's fuel price rises on the Gulf war, coming from a government that itself shot January protesters with bullets.
The president of the University of Tehran announced a "hijab task force" to deal with students' dress, a task force that summons students in secret.
Ali Abdollahi, chief of the General Staff of the Islamic Republic's armed forces, threatened the United States and Israel with a harsher response; Mohammad-Reza Naghdi also made unsubstantiated claims.
The US embassies in Amman and Abu Dhabi warned American citizens that the Islamic Republic and allied groups may target US interests around the world.
According to Prince Reza Pahlavi's office, Payman Ghadiri, a 45-year-old engineer from Qarchak who was shot at his home by government agents on 9 January 2026, has died after nine months in a coma.
Benjamin Netanyahu warned that Russia's cooperation with the Islamic Republic runs against Moscow's own interests, and said Vladimir Putin does not want Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon either.
Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic, told Al Jazeera that among Muslims the country of Iran and nationality do not matter and the only measure is piety.
On Sunday 18 October, Al-Zahra University barred more students from entering, and security at Allameh Tabataba'i University stepped up compulsory-hijab pressure on female students.
On the evening of Sunday 18 October, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed a tanker south of the Strait of Hormuz hit a mine and caught fire; the ship's name has not been announced and no independent source has confirmed it.
Donald Trump said Russia is not doing much to help the Islamic Republic in the war, and that keeping it that way is one of the reasons he is holding back from acting against Moscow.
The private office of Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi warned that a new web address in her name could be used to collect Iranians' personal information and is not trustworthy.
Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, replying to Donald Trump's warning, wrote that Tehran too has "unfinished business"; IRGC commanders also threatened Israel.
Erfan Karamvisi, a 19-year-old from Badreh in Ilam province, was arrested by security forces on Saturday, 17 October, and taken to an unknown location.
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, speaker of the Islamic Republic's parliament, announced a "Persian Gulf Data Organization" and warned regional countries against supporting AI and data companies.
A Saudi reconnaissance helicopter crashed in Najran on Sunday, 18 October, killing its two crew members; a projectile attributed to the Houthis also wounded six people in the city.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will travel to Tehran on Monday 19 October to meet Abbas Araghchi, a trip that follows a request to Moscow from the Persian Gulf states.
