In a letter to the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, 1,700 Iranian doctors and specialists backed awarding the 2026 Freedom Prize to the people of Iran and its receipt by Prince Reza Pahlavi.
UKMTO warnings show that twelve commercial ships were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf between 5 and 11 October; ship traffic has fallen to about one-fifth.
In its new World Economic Outlook, the International Monetary Fund forecast that Iran's economy will shrink 7.6 percent in 2026 under sanctions and the US naval blockade.
King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh will stay closed until Saturday after a third consecutive night of attacks by the Houthis, allies of the Islamic Republic; Saudi Arabia had issued no public warnings before these attacks.
On the eve of 14 October, the birthday of Empress Farah Pahlavi, 27 political prisoners inside Iran and the Organization of Iranian Women sent her greetings in separate messages and spoke of a free Iran.
The video of Prince Reza Pahlavi's speech at the Cyrus the Great 2 conference in Toronto has been released; he spoke of a phase of active defections within the Islamic Republic's structure and of opposition networks inside Iran.
Prince Reza Pahlavi called the Houthi attack on Riyadh's King Khalid Airport fresh proof that the Islamic Republic never seeks peace, and offered his condolences to the people of Saudi Arabia.
On Monday, 12 October, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) admitted targeting a third supertanker in two days in the Strait of Hormuz and called ships with their navigation systems switched off "hostile".
On the first Mehregan since the death of Ali Khamenei, Prince Reza Pahlavi dedicated the festival to the memory of the fallen of the January uprising and asked his compatriots to visit their families.
Senior US security officials discussed continuing the war with the Islamic Republic at Camp David, as the carrier Theodore Roosevelt set off for the Middle East. A source in Tehran says the government's assessment is that the war will resume.
Google and Meta have removed the "Adam and Eve" matchmaking app in Iran after a HRANA report on 13-year-old girls being listed as potential spouses.
The head of Evin prison's visiting hall and his deputy severely beat the brother of a female political prisoner in front of children on Sunday, 11 October, and threw him out with insults.
HRANA announced that from 31 March to 10 October at least 94 people were killed and 33 wounded in armed attacks and military operations in Sistan and Baluchestan.
Yemen's internationally recognized government says it arrested 18 members of a Houthi network in Lahij, claiming experts from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Lebanon's Hezbollah trained them.
Branch 41 of the Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of Amirhasan Akbari Monfared, an accounting student held in Evin prison; the sentence was communicated to him on Sunday, 11 October.
In a joint statement, the United States and 28 other countries endorsed Britain's assessment that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps directed the plot against RAF Fairford, and condemned the Islamic Republic's actions beyond its borders.
Shoresh Abubakri, a Kurdish singer and musician from Sardasht, was arrested on Sunday, 11 October, after going to the Sardasht prosecutor's office with his lawyer, and was taken to an unknown location.
Iran Human Rights said that Jaber Khosravi, 43, was executed in Damghan prison despite documented medical records of severe mental illness.
Islamic Republic officials have said the internet may be cut again and schools closed if the war resumes; a deputy communications minister even spoke of power cuts.
On Monday, 12 October, the investigating judge of the Mashhad Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office extended the detention order for Ahmad Rahimi, a university professor arrested for helping those wounded in the December–January uprising.
