The top posts of each day, ordered by votes.
Elnaz Ghorbani, a Christian convert, has been summoned to serve a five-year prison sentence handed down by the Varamin Revolutionary Court and must report to Qarchak prison within five days.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said the US naval blockade has stopped at least $25 billion in Islamic Republic oil exports and that $350 million of its cryptocurrency has been frozen.
The Oshnavieh intelligence office summoned Khalil Eini, father of Sediq Eini, a former political prisoner living abroad, several times and threatened that the family will pay for their son's activity.
Esmaeil Baghaei, spokesman for the Islamic Republic's foreign ministry, rejected Saudi Arabia's accusation about Tehran's role in the Houthi attacks and offered to mediate.
Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the UN Secretary-General, said the Secretary-General opposes the death sentence for Najmeh Amini, a 23-year-old student held in Vakilabad prison in Mashhad.
DIAR analysis: shots at fuel porters, the death of a political prisoner, jail for activists and a wave of executions in a single day show that repression in the Islamic Republic is not the exception but the routine.
Prince Reza Pahlavi's media office has released a video by Burgan Nezami, one of the authors of the Iran Prosperity Project, on the difference between Bitcoin and stablecoins.
Brent crude rose above $109 on Friday, 16 October, after new attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and US crude reached $100 for the first time since early September.
Ali Falahi, a 46-year-old Iranian-British citizen, admitted at Harrow court in London that the fire beside the memorial wall for the fallen had been aimed at a photo of Prince Reza Pahlavi.
Hassan Maksaei, a fuel carrier from Kahnuj and father of four, was shot without warning on the Iranshahr road on Tuesday, 13 October, and died in hospital.
HRANA recorded 34 security and judicial actions against Baha'is in Yazd between 28 March and 15 October 2026, from house searches and summonses to prison sentences.
Babak Moradifar, a political activist and law graduate, has been summoned to the sentence enforcement office of the Tehran Security Prosecutor's Office to serve a 30-month prison sentence.
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said in Berlin on Friday that Europe is in the Islamic Republic's crosshairs and that Berlin will not tolerate its hostile actions.
Behzad Rezvanmehr, a political prisoner in Karaj Central Prison, died in his ward in the early hours of Thursday 15 October after months in solitary confinement and being denied treatment for a widespread infection.
A letter from 306 associations opposing the Friedrich Naumann Foundation's decision to entrust the Freedom Prize to Prince Reza Pahlavi has been met by the support of 1,700 doctors and 133 political prisoners.
Pirouz Mojtahedzadeh, a professor of political geography and researcher of the borders and islands of Iran in the Persian Gulf, died on Thursday 15 October in London at the age of 80 after a period of illness.
Zhina Ahmadi, an artist from Marivan and founder of the "Zhilemo" children's music house, has been held in Sanandaj prison since 5 October with no clear charge and no lawyer.
The navy of the Islamic Republic's army has reported another tanker on fire in the Gulf of Oman, the second similar claim in three days, with no ship named and no independent confirmation.
Branch 1 of the Yazd Revolutionary Court has sentenced Flora Samadani and her husband Ahmad Jafari Naeimi, Baha'i citizens, to a combined three years, six months and two days in prison.
Branch 119 of Qom's Criminal Court Two has sentenced a woman to 50 discretionary lashes for kissing and hugging a man in a café, on the basis of a video.
Chicken and egg prices have multiplied with the rial's collapse and the end of the preferential exchange rate; a tray of eggs has risen from about 150,000 to 480,000 tomans and household consumption has fallen.
Satellite images show the Islamic Republic sent jet fuel to Myanmar and eight cargoes of liquefied gas to Asian waters despite the US naval blockade.
In a letter to Masoud Pezeshkian, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf declared part of the regulation on combating terrorist financing unlawful, a new knot in the FATF file.
Johannes Natland, a 19-year-old Norwegian who came to Britain to kill someone for the Foxtrot network, a criminal gang linked to the Islamic Republic, was sentenced to 20 years.
At least 84 women have been killed in Iran since 21 March 2026, 18 of them between 23 September and 13 October; most killers were the victim's husband, partner or relative.
Prince Reza Pahlavi's press office announced that the Iran Prosperity Project has completed its move from NUFDI and will continue its transition-readiness work in a new organisation.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Sergei Lavrov will travel to Tehran on Monday, 19 October, for talks on the situation in the Middle East.
Claudia Tenney and Yassamin Ansari introduced the bipartisan "IRAN Act" in Congress to expand Iranians' access to the free internet and counter the Islamic Republic's censorship.
Peyman Ghadiri, a 45-year-old Dey uprising protester in Qarchak who was shot in the head at close range by regime agents on 9 January, has died after about nine months in a coma.
South Korea's government is considering extending the Cheonghae anti-piracy unit's mission from the Gulf of Aden to the Gulf of Oman; Seoul's defence ministry says no decision has been made yet.
