The Latest Breaking News from Iran

Asian shares are trading mixed after Wall Street pulled back from its recent records and as political uncertainty brewed in various regions, including in Iran

As citizens around the world prepared to welcome the new year, Iranians began taking to the streets to protest their country’s deepening economic crisis. Spurred by the continued devaluation of the Iranian currency against the US dollar, as well as crippling inflation, the unrest is the latest in years of…

Protests began over the fall in value of the currency have grown into wider demonstrations and calls for the fall of Iran’s clerical establishment

Administration issues warning to US citizens: ‘Leave Iran now’

Iranian-Australians worry for their families amid an ongoing violent crackdown on protests and the prospect of American military action.

Sadeq Hedayat (1903-1951) abandoned his training in dentistry and, later, engineering in France and Belgium, to study old Persian and Iranian mythology. He would become one of the first modernist fiction writers in Iran. He published stories, essays and plays, but The Blind Owl, a short enigmatic novel, has been…

US president says ‘important sources’ told him executions are not going ahead. This blog is now closed

U.S. special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff met with Iran's exiled crown prince, Reza Pahlavi, as protests intensify within the country.

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked Donald Trump's contradictory response to protests by suggesting ICE agents be sent to Iran instead of Minneapolis.

When Iran’s ongoing protests began in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar on Dec. 28 2025, the government initially treated them as manageable and temporary.

France’s foreign minister said on Tuesday that he had summoned Iran’s ambassador to protest against what he described as the “unrestrained use of state violence against peaceful demonstrators” in Iran. Similar démarches have been made by several European governments as the death toll rises, while the United States has warned…