New information on the crackdown on the Dey uprising in Semnan shows snipers fired at protesters from the roofs of the Friday prayer leader's office, state TV and a women's dormitory.
Branch 26 of Tehran's Revolutionary Court sentenced Alireza Malekzadeh, a political prisoner in Greater Tehran prison, to 15 years for sending images and coordinates of locations.
In a statement, the Assembly of Experts called for strict enforcement of the compulsory hijab law and urged the armed forces to give any US threat a "regret-inducing" response.
Amnesty International warned that at least 20 protesters from the January uprising, two of them under 18 at the time of the alleged offence, are at imminent risk of execution after the Supreme Court upheld their sentences.
The memorial for Ali-Sina Mostafavi, the mountaineer and political prisoner executed in Kerman, which was due to be held on Friday 16 October, was cancelled under pressure from government forces.
US Vice President JD Vance hinted at a disagreement with Donald Trump over the war with the Islamic Republic, adding that the final decision rests with the president.
Benjamin Netanyahu said the only way to confront the Islamic Republic is to remove this regime that has taken the Iranian people hostage; a long process, both military and economic.
Intelligence assessments by Saudi Arabia and its Yemeni allies show that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps officers in Yemen are directing the targeting of the Houthis' drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations agency said a tanker 78 miles north-east of Saudi Arabia's Jubail in the Persian Gulf was hit by an RPG fired from a small boat.
The Monetary and Banking Research Institute of the Islamic Republic's central bank estimated Iran's economic growth in the three months to Mordad at minus 5.9 percent and named the naval blockade as the main cause of the slump.
DIAR analysis: the Iran Prosperity Project's move from NUFDI to a new body is a normal step in the growth of organisations, and the rumour of a dispute in Prince Reza Pahlavi's camp has nothing behind it.
A ceremony honouring Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi's 88th birthday was held on Tuesday, 14 October, near Les Invalides in Paris, attended by Iranians and a former French ambassador.
On Saturday, 17 October, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed a tanker carrying more than two million barrels of oil hit a mine in the Strait of Hormuz; attacks on ships have reached 12 in one week.
Lebanon's Hezbollah, a proxy group of the Islamic Republic, has asked Lebanese security forces to hand back explosives seized from a truck on the Bekaa-to-Beirut route.
Baraa Shaban, a Yemeni researcher in London, says the Islamic Republic cultivated the Houthis for years through Hezbollah and the IRGC in order to open a second front of the war.
The Saudi-led coalition reported an attack on the Houthis' maritime arms-smuggling network in Yemen's Hodeidah; the Houthis are allies of the Islamic Republic. Britain has raised its travel warning for Saudi Arabia.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said 400 merchant ships passed through the Strait of Hormuz in seven days and that the US helped its allies export more than 100 million barrels of oil.
Yemen's government said the Houthis, allies of the Islamic Republic, fired two missiles at Aden airport on Friday; they landed 500 metres from a plane preparing for takeoff.
In the final statement of the Brussels summit, EU leaders condemned the crackdown and mass executions in Iran and called for freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
At a campaign rally in Georgia, Donald Trump said the US operation against the Islamic Republic will end very soon and called the regime's leaders "crazy".
