On Sunday 18 October Benjamin Netanyahu announced Israel's new national security doctrine, which gives priority to prevention and pre-emptive strikes; confronting the Islamic Republic is at its centre.
Mokhtar Al-Bushokeh, a political prisoner in Arak prison, has been on hunger strike since 6 October, and Hamzeh Savari has joined the strike in Ghezel Hesar prison in support of him.
Since the start of Mehr 1405 (23 September 2026) at least 15 women and girls have been killed in cities across Iran; in most cases men of the family are accused.
At the Manama meeting, the Gulf Cooperation Council states asked Russia to use its influence to make the Islamic Republic implement Security Council Resolution 2817.
Prince Reza Pahlavi asked Americans of Iranian descent and all American voters to make Iran's freedom a yardstick for judging candidates in the November midterm elections.
The head of Bushehr University of Medical Sciences reported a shortage of at least 700 nurses; low pay has driven nurses away from hospital work and even from completing their compulsory service.
On Sunday, 18 October, Donald Trump warned that if the Islamic Republic does not change course, the United States will soon finish the job, and gave Benjamin Netanyahu his full support.
Videos sent in by citizens show that compatriots who support the monarchy rallied on Saturday, 17 October, outside the Islamic Republic's embassies in Baku and Tbilisi.
Ahmad Naderi, a member of the Islamic Republic's parliament, said Mojtaba Khamenei's fatwa on nuclear weapons will differ from his father's, and defended building an atomic bomb.
The Islamic Republic's Ministry of Science ended its work with Farzad Kolbali, a political sociology lecturer at the University of Tehran, over "subversive" content on social media.
On Sunday, 18 October, social security and steel retirees rallied in Tehran, Rasht, Kermanshah, Isfahan, Shush and Ahvaz to protest soaring prices, repression and death sentences.
Prince Reza Pahlavi thanked Belgium's defence minister and said his speech at the Royal Military Academy will focus on the Islamic Republic's threat to Europe's security.
In a letter to clubs, the football league organisation banned the presence of men, from spectators to reporters and photographers, at women's football matches; the decision came from higher authorities.
Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Rajji, at the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation meeting in Iraq, called on the Islamic Republic to stop sending weapons and money to Hezbollah and interfering in Lebanon's affairs.
Egypt's National Defence Council, chaired by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, on Sunday 18 October approved providing all necessary aid to Saudi Arabia against attacks by the Houthis, allies of the Islamic Republic.
Mehrdad Akhlaghi, a sanctioned missile executive, threatened US forces after parliament's vote of confidence in the defence ministry; Mohsen Rezaei also spoke of a "more devastating" response.
Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, said in Baghdad on Sunday that reopening the Strait of Hormuz in six days depends on the United States accepting Tehran's conditions.
Mehdi Meskinnavaz, a civil activist and political prisoner in Rasht's Lakan prison, has been denied proper treatment for more than two years despite a knee injury, a slipped disc and a burn wound.
DIAR analysis: raising money in the name of Iran's national revolution without audits and public reporting erodes Iranians' trust and serves only the Islamic Republic.
The head of the Health Ministry's nutrition improvement office said daily dairy consumption in Iran is about one serving, less than half the recommended amount, amid 147 percent dairy inflation.
