Masoud Pezeshkian, the Islamic Republic’s president, said on Monday, 5 October, in a meeting with Armenia’s foreign minister that negotiating with the US is meaningless and that Washington’s aim is to topple the regime.
According to HRANA, Branch 1 of the Bojnord Revolutionary Court has sentenced Mani Partani, one of those detained during the January uprising, to a total of eight years in prison on charges including propaganda activity against the system and insulting the leadership.
Yemeni government forces, backed by air support from the Saudi-led coalition, announced on Monday, 5 October, that they had retaken the strategic Red Sea port of Mokha from the Islamic Republic-backed Houthis and advanced around the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
Agents of the Islamic Republic's Intelligence Ministry arrested Aida Ghaderi, a swimming coach, and Rojan Ebrahimi, a mixed martial arts athlete, in Saqqez on Saturday and Sunday, 3 and 4 October. According to human rights groups, there is no information on the charges against them or where they are being held.
After the execution of two Dey uprising protesters in Isfahan, the office of Prince Reza Pahlavi said these state killings will not go unanswered and that all those responsible, from those who ordered them to the judges and executioners, will be tried in fair courts. In response, Mizan news agency called his account a "lie".
The Pezeshkian government said Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad resigned for "personal" reasons, but his departure comes as oil exports have stopped under the US naval blockade and pressure mounts on the network of oil-sales middlemen. Hamid Bord has been named acting oil minister.
On Monday, 5 October 2026, Masoud Pezeshkian put forward Mehrdad Akhlaghi Ketabchi to parliament as defence minister. Akhlaghi, a former head of the Defence Ministry's Aerospace Industries Organisation, is on US, EU and UN sanctions lists for his role in the ballistic missile programme.
Media inside Iran reported that the final stages of the demolition of Rajaei Shahr (Gohardasht) prison in Karaj were carried out on Sunday, 4 October. Human rights activists say that by razing the prison, the Islamic Republic is destroying evidence of the mass executions of 1988.
The head of FARAJA's economic security police said on Monday, 5 October, that under a directive from the Tehran prosecutor, websites that in his words publish "false" exchange rates will face judicial and police action from that day; meanwhile the dollar hit a new record on the open market.
Iran Human Rights reported that the Islamic Republic executed at least 70 people in September and that the number of executions recorded in the first nine months of 2026 has reached 604, including 33 protesters.
Mohammad-Amin Aghamiri, secretary of the Islamic Republic's Supreme Council of Cyberspace, said that if satellite internet is used as a tool of war, its infrastructure is a legitimate military target, and claimed the authorities disabled Starlink terminals during the January uprising.
Ali Abdollahi, chief of staff of the Islamic Republic's armed forces, warned on Monday, 5 October, that the fire of any new war against Iran would engulf everyone; meanwhile the newspaper Israel Hayom reported that the Israeli military is preparing for an operation against the Islamic Republic independent of the United States.
Gunmen attacked a police patrol on the Bampur–Iranshahr road in Sistan and Baluchestan on Monday morning, 5 October; two officers were killed and one person was wounded. A group called the "Popular Fighters Front" has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The UK Maritime Trade Operations centre said on Monday, 5 October, that the IRGC had contacted a tanker entering the Strait of Hormuz and threatened that it would be targeted if it did not turn back; the tanker's captain complied with the order.
The human rights news agency HRANA reported on World Teachers' Day that at least 47 teachers in 19 Iranian provinces are imprisoned, detained or in internal exile, and that some face sentences ranging from long prison terms and flogging to death.
The spokesman for the Pharmacists' Association reported a worsening shortage of essential psychiatric drugs due to disruptions in raw-material imports, and the spokesman for parliament's health committee said patients have been identified who sell the medicine they receive to make ends meet.
The Islamic Republic's judiciary executed Alireza Sepahi and Alireza Raeisi, two people detained during the January uprising in Isfahan, at dawn on Monday, 5 October 2026. According to people close to the families, government agents did not allow them to be buried where they lived.
According to The New York Times, public- and private-sector employees in Iran, including nurses and teachers, are announcing on social media that they are quitting because their pay is inadequate; meanwhile Mohsen Rezaei admitted in a meeting of the government's economic headquarters that the situation is unprecedentedly difficult.
According to Reuters, citing Kpler data, Middle East crude exports reached 19.5 to 22.5 million barrels per day on four days of the last week of September, exceeding the pre-war average; at the same time, attacks on tankers have intensified.
The Islamic Republic's foreign ministry on Sunday 4 October summoned Norway's ambassador in Tehran and handed him a formal protest note because Oslo has not stopped Starlink satellite internet transmissions in Iran.
