Asia Iran A growing number of experts and scholars is advancing theories that paint a declining era for political Islam; Iran’s current travails have intensified discussion on whether a new nationalism, more national and less Islamic, is rising in the country
Asia Iran Sky News verified and made known that 152 (120 students aged 6 to 13, and 26 teachers) of those killed when a US missile struck a primary school in Minab on day 1 of the attack on Iran have been identified cross-checking a number of sources
Asia Iran A senior Iranian cleric said women without proper hijab should not be excluded from wartime gatherings, while Nour News, affiliated with Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, called for reason and moderation over ideological confrontation
Asia Iran The Straight of Hormuz will remain "completely open" for all commercial vessels as long as the ceasefire in the Middle East lasts, Foreign Minister Araghchi declared on X
Asia Iran Iran is celebrating Nowruz, the Persian New Year, during wartime for the first time since the 1980s; believed to have been celebrated in ancient Iran since at least the fifth century B.C., it marks the solstice of spring and symbolizes new beginnings
Asia Iran Iran’s Assembly of Experts has named Mojtaba Khamenei to serve the country as new supreme leader after his father, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been confirmed killed under US and Israel fire earlier this month
Asia Iran In retaliation for an ongoing attack by US and Israel forces hitting Teheran and a number of cities in the country, Iran launched strikes across Middle East, targeting countries hosting US facilities
Asia Iran EU armies have been designated as ‘terrorist groups’ by Iran's authorities, in retaliatory move following a EU decision to label the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a ‘terrorist organisation’
Asia Iran Protests have spread to 78 cities across 26 provinces in the second week of uninterrupted demonstration in Iran; experts highlight that war with Israel, a battered economy and the loss of allies have left the government at its weakest point in years
Asia Iran Three domestically built satellites have been successfully placed into orbit in a single launch, carrying out one of Iran's most complex space endeavors to date: the mission has been hailed as a major milestone by analysts and officials
Asia Iran Iran analyst Omid Memarian, in Eye for Iran, presents the dramatic cultural opening sweeping across Iran as a bottom-up movement driven by a young generation that is less willing to be intimidated, not as a government reform
Asia Iran Iranian short film “Sheep”, written, directed, and produced by Hadi Babaeifar, won a prize at the 11th annual Asian World Film Festival AWFF in California, USA; Babaeifar also received a scholarship to the New York Film Academy
Asia Iran Tehran's state-appointed Friday prayer leader said that defiance of the Islamic veil was synonym of collaboration with Israel and the US, urging "all women to consider their faith and country”