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.
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said no oil loading has been seen at Kharg Island since August and that the Islamic Republic's economy resembles a company on the verge of bankruptcy.
On the orders of Ali al-Zaidi, Iraq's government will begin closing its border crossings with Iran in stages from the morning of Wednesday, 21 October 2026, starting with the al-Sheeb crossing in Maysan province.
According to citizens' messages from Arak, officials in Markazi province have threatened municipal street sweepers with a two-week work ban if they do not attend Wednesday's regime rally.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio compared the Islamic Republic's attacks on merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz to the tactics of Nazi Germany's U-boats in the Second World War.
Yusef Dehghani, a Qorveh health worker detained in the Dey uprising, was sentenced in two cases to prison, 31 lashes, two years of exile to Zabol and a fine.
Two US officials said the carrier Theodore Roosevelt and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit will reach the Middle East by the end of November, giving new options against the Islamic Republic.
DIAR analysis: Mehdi Khanbaba Tehrani, a founder of the Confederation of Iranian Students, has died aged 92; his record is the story of a left that paved the way to 1979.
Prince Reza Pahlavi's office released a message from inside Iran in which compatriots pledged to continue the path of Alireza Raisi and Alireza Sepahi, two protesters executed in Isfahan.
Ali Farhadi, a prisoner convicted on a drug charge, was executed on Sunday 18 October in Tabriz Central Prison; the Islamic Republic has not announced the execution.
Evin prison officials asked Kazem Alinejad Baranlou, a political prisoner on hunger strike, to sign a "repentance letter"; he refused and his phone calls were cut off.
Majid Saeedi, an award-winning international photojournalist, is still being held at an unknown location, without announced charges, 41 days after his arrest by security forces.
Dadban published the account of a family seeking justice for the January uprising: security bodies forbid families to visit the graves of the fallen or contact one another, and threaten them with summons.
The University of Tehran ended its work with two lecturers, Farzad Kolbali and Sepid Birashk, over their political views and media activity, and banned them from entering the university.
UK counter-terrorism police re-arrested two men in the RAF Fairford case on suspicion of assisting the Islamic Republic's intelligence service, under the National Security Act.
Meeting Asim Munir, Mohsen Rezaei said not even a particle of enriched uranium will leave Iran; Ghalibaf also called implementation of the seven conditions a precondition for trust.
The physical condition of Kazem Alinejad Baranlou, a political prisoner in Evin prison, has become critical after a dry hunger strike in protest at being denied treatment and medication.
A group of justice-seeking mothers of the Dey uprising gathered at the graves of the immortalised fallen of the Lion and Sun national revolution in Gilan to honour their children and loved ones.
Recalling the executions of Saleh Mohammadi and Navid Afkari, the US State Department said the Islamic Republic executes protesting athletes while using champions for propaganda.
Qatar and Pakistan have presented the United States and the Islamic Republic with a new mediation plan that includes the release of about $6 billion and a confidential IAEA visit.
