DIAR analysis: Opposition from the Rajavi camp to inviting Prince Reza Pahlavi to Belgium comes from an organisation that itself has a record of controlling its members' personal lives.
Rents and housing deposits in Tehran, Karaj, Ahvaz, Shiraz and Mashhad have risen up to threefold; tenants say several family members work just to pay the rent.
Yashar Soltani, a journalist covering corruption, says Hossein Shamkhani received more than $30 billion in oil cargoes in 478 shipments up to May 2026, despite heavy debts.
Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, 22 October, that he has ordered the army and Mossad to regard the overthrow of the Islamic Republic as the only solution, and that he will not ask Trump for a green light to attack.
Greece's finance ministry said on Thursday, 22 October, a day after the US sanctioned the Karnakis law firm, that it enforces sanctions linked to the Islamic Republic.
Benjamin Netanyahu called a Financial Times report that Israel's attack on the Islamic Republic was halted over Donald Trump's objection "incorrect and biased".
The Islamic Republic's liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) exports have fallen to less than a seventh of last year's since the US naval blockade began in July, leaving millions of tonnes stuck in the country.
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said on Thursday, 22 October, that the death toll from the attack on King Fahd Airport in Dammam has risen to two; eight people were also wounded.
Donald Trump said on Wednesday, 21 October, that the United States is not negotiating with the Islamic Republic and that the matter will be resolved "one way or another" fairly soon.
The US dollar reached 272,000 tomans on the Tehran market on Thursday, 22 October; a home-cooked ghormeh sabzi for four now costs up to 2.3 million tomans.
DIAR analysis: closed borders with Iraq and Pakistan, the naval blockade and helplessness in the air have left the Islamic Republic without mediation cards and without a social base.
Germany's financial regulator said on Thursday 22 October that the Hamburg branch of the Islamic Republic's Bank Saderat no longer has a banking licence and must be wound up; it had operated since 1962.
Freedom House's Freedom on the Net 2026 report cut Iran's score from 13 to 9, the world's steepest drop after the Islamic Republic shut down the internet nationwide for 88 days.
The IRGC Navy claimed on Thursday 22 October that four oil vessels were hit in the northern Persian Gulf and three other ships struck mines west of the Strait of Hormuz.
Three senior Islamic Republic officials say Tehran has deliberately prolonged negotiations with the United States to weaken Donald Trump before the 3 November midterm elections.
Kpler analysts say the Islamic Republic's floating oil reserves in Asian waters ran out by mid-October, and the US naval blockade has closed off any way to replace them.
Donald Trump said on the evening of Wednesday, 21 October, in South Carolina that the US operation against the Islamic Republic will end soon and that the government will not obtain a nuclear weapon.
The US and Israeli militaries have prepared plans for new strikes on the Islamic Republic after the US midterm elections; the final decision rests with Donald Trump.
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation authority said an attack on King Fahd International Airport in Dammam on the evening of Wednesday 21 October left one dead and eight injured.
Residents of Sirik reported a second strike on an IRGC missile launcher early on Thursday 22 October; Israel's Channel 12 said the US hit an anti-ship missile launcher.
