Marco Rubio's reference to Xerxes' campaign against Athens gave Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf a chance to defend ancient Iran, a heritage Ali Khamenei had earlier belittled.
Reza Zangeneh, a prisoner sentenced to death on a charge of "collaborating with Mossad", has been moved to a solitary cell in Karaj's Ghezelhesar prison; fears of an imminent execution have grown.
Nine months after the killings of 8 and 9 January, the families of the January uprising's martyrs are keeping their children's memory alive and demanding justice through the "9 Apples, 9 Months Apart" campaign.
According to HRANA, Habibollah Ghanbarzehi Farjad, a 38-year-old Baluch prisoner from Zahedan, and Amin Khajenezami were executed in Kerman prison at dawn on Monday 12 October.
Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic, said the real price of gasoline is not 1,500 tomans, but that a sudden price increase would throw society into disarray.
The Islamic Republic's Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade has published a list of 55 items subject to hoarding rules; diapers, baby formula, medicine, wheat and cooking oil are among them.
Hossein Shariatmadari, managing director of Kayhan, on Monday 12 October called attacks on fibre-optic cables in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz a right of the Islamic Republic and defended Mohsen Rezaei's threat.
The Islamic Republic's judiciary announced on Monday 12 October the execution of Omar Dorostaran, accused of belonging to Jaish al-Adl; no document from his trial has been published.
Najmeh Amini, a 23-year-old student held in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad, has been sentenced to death on a charge of “insulting the Prophet” over a post she published on social media.
Nahid Khodajou, a labor activist and board member of the Free Union of Iranian Workers, was arrested at her home on 6 October, and for six days there has been no word of where she is being held.
The head of Greater Tehran's economic security police said arrests of currency market activists have risen 40 to 50 percent this year; the dollar in Tehran remains near 270,000 toman.
The death toll from two Houthi attacks on Riyadh airport has reached 14; the US, Britain and Australia have issued warnings about travel to Saudi Arabia, and the Houthis spoke of an attack on Aramco.
UN Special Rapporteur Gina Romero announced that on Tuesday, 13 October she will join the “No to Execution Tuesdays” hunger strike in solidarity with Iran’s political prisoners.
Tehran's Enghelab Club and the national sports complex were closed under the pretext of "enforcing Sharia norms" and compulsory hijab; Enghelab Club announced it is open again from Monday 12 October.
The price of the Saina car has risen from about 28 million toman in October 2016 to nearly 1.7 billion toman and now equals more than 101 months of base salary.
According to HRANA, the Islamic Republic executed at least 2,003 people between October 2025 and October 2026; 69 of them were executed on political and security charges.
Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, spoke by phone with Faisal bin Farhan on Sunday 11 October after the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia and offered to mediate.
Benjamin Netanyahu met Israel Katz and senior Israeli security officials in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening, 11 October, to discuss the Islamic Republic, Gaza and Lebanon.
Social security, Foulad and Zob-Ahan steel company pensioners gathered in Tehran, Isfahan, Rasht and Shush on Sunday 11 October to protest high prices, inflation and inadequate pay.
Iran Human Rights Society said Pejman Sourani, a 33-year-old resident of Najafabad, died after being beaten by government forces following a verbal argument at a petrol station.
