A month after the arrest of the well-known photojournalist Majid Saeedi at his home in Tehran, his family still has no word on where he is held or what he is accused of.
Citing a Binance document, the Wall Street Journal revealed details of 21 accounts in the Babak Zanjani network; at least $67 million reached wallets linked to the IRGC.
In the US State Department's 2026 Trafficking in Persons report, the Islamic Republic was placed in the lowest tier; the IRGC and Basij are accused of using child soldiers.
A day after executing two protesters, the Islamic Republic summoned France's ambassador over police handling of protesting school students; Paris called the move a "provocation".
With about 4,700 megawatts of industrial and petrochemical power capacity knocked out, the Islamic Republic is looking to imports from Turkey and Turkmenistan to make up for the outages.
Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, a teachers' union activist, has been summoned to the Langarud public and revolutionary prosecutor's office in Gilan province on a complaint from a law-enforcement body and a charge of "propaganda against the system".
Mahshad Keshani, a 22-year-old political prisoner and wife of the executed protester Alireza Sepahi, is under interrogation pressure in Isfahan's Dolatabad prison to deny her marriage to him.
Evidence presented at Woolwich Crown Court in London shows that three defendants accused of spying for the Islamic Republic tracked Iran International's office and Kambiz Hosseini, a presenter at the channel.
OpenAI announced it had uncovered an Iranian influence operation that used seven fake journalists and ChatGPT to publish nearly 100 articles about the Iran-US war.
The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has returned to San Diego after 321 days on a mission in the war with the Islamic Republic; the Pentagon announced the sinking of 64 Islamic Republic warships.
According to Bloomberg, Western officials say the Islamic Republic has retained its ability to build missiles and drones despite months of attacks; the White House rejected the assessment.
After Trump's pledge not to attack Iran before the midterm elections, hardline figures of the Islamic Republic have called for a pre-emptive strike and an escalation of the conflict.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Friday, 9 October, claimed responsibility for the attack on the LPG carrier NV Sunshine and threatened to extend attacks on ships beyond the Strait of Hormuz.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a campaign of "absolute isolation" against the Islamic Republic, the closing of land routes and the seizure of one billion dollars in cryptocurrency.
Nosrat Eftekhari, deputy police commander of Sistan and Baluchestan, was killed on Friday, 9 October, by a roadside bomb in Zahedan; the clashes have spread to Kerman.
HRANA reported on Friday, 9 October, at least 2,003 executions in Iran in one year; UN experts called for an immediate halt to executions.
On Thursday, 8 October, the US Treasury sanctioned 17 tankers of the Islamic Republic's shadow fleet and the 17 companies that own them to cut off the regime's oil revenue.
Donald Trump announced on Thursday, 8 October, that the US will not attack Iran before the midterm elections, but the naval blockade of the Islamic Republic stays in place.
The Revolutionary Court of Bojnurd has sentenced Hadi Abbasian, a 38-year-old protester from Shirvan, to death for posting protest videos on Instagram.
With Iran-US negotiations deadlocked, JD Vance called a real reduction in enrichment capacity the condition for ending the war, and Rubio said the Islamic Republic had missed chances for a deal.
