The Supreme Court again upheld the death sentence of Manouchehr Fallah, a 42-year-old political prisoner in Rasht's Lakan prison, over a firecracker blast; the case went to enforcement.
As unrest spreads in France, Prince Reza Pahlavi's media office recalled his warning from four decades ago that extremist Islamism would reach Europe.
Russian President Vladimir Putin told Steve Witkoff on Wednesday, 21 October, that Moscow is ready to help resolve the crisis between the Islamic Republic and the US.
The Kuwaiti tanker Al-Dasma was hit by an unknown projectile and caught fire on Wednesday, 21 October, 11 miles west of Bukha in Oman's Musandam, near the Strait of Hormuz.
The Shib border crossing between Iran and Iraq was closed until further notice in the early hours of Wednesday, 21 October, on the orders of Ali al-Zaidi; Shalamcheh, Zurbatiyah and Mandali are next in line.
Canada's Immigration and Refugee Board has ordered the deportation of Amin Yousefi-Jam, a former Tehran police officer, for his role in a network that circumvented sanctions on the Islamic Republic.
Abdollah Narouei, a 43-year-old Iranian prisoner from Baluchestan and father of five, was executed at dawn on Tuesday 20 October in Mashhad's Vakilabad prison without a last family visit.
Rabi Tupa Ebrahimi, a 32-year-old protester, was detained at gunpoint in Chalus on 24 August, and nothing has been heard of his fate for nearly two months.
Israeli fighter jets flew toward Iran over Iraq and Syria in a night exercise; an Israeli security official called a resumption of war with the Islamic Republic inevitable.
Benjamin Netanyahu had prepared a multi-day attack on the Islamic Republic for the weekend of 10 October; Donald Trump's opposition ahead of the US election halted it.
Kpler data show Persian Gulf oil exports have risen above their pre-war level despite the Islamic Republic's attacks in the Strait of Hormuz.
Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, said the Strait of Hormuz stays closed without a deal; Marco Rubio called reaching an agreement with Tehran very difficult.
The faction close to Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf wants to end the war with the US without losing the Strait of Hormuz as leverage; hardliners call the mediators enemies.
Rick Scott, Republican senator from Florida, said the US military conflict with the Islamic Republic will continue until regime change in Iran and that sanctions weaken its repression.
The IRGC claimed that on Tuesday, 20 October, three tankers in the south of the Strait of Hormuz hit mines it had laid itself; no independent body has confirmed the claim.
United Against Nuclear Iran said that since 12 July no tanker carrying the Islamic Republic's crude has managed to leave the Gulf of Oman and get through the US blockade.
French researchers accused the Islamic Republic of fuelling the unrest in France with online campaigns and links to far-left groups.
Islamic Republic attacks in the Strait of Hormuz targeted at least 23 ships in the first two weeks of October, and the engine rooms of at least five ships were directly hit.
Abbas Araghchi, the Islamic Republic's foreign minister, said Tehran's trust in the US has fallen to zero and cooperation with Russia is unprecedented in the two countries' history, contrary to Trump's assessment.
Donald Trump said at the White House that the United States is doing well against the Islamic Republic and only has to decide whether to win the soft way or the hard way.
