Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100's of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Iran

Free Starlink access for Iran seen as game changer for demonstrators getting their message out

SpaceX's Starlink has dropped fees to help Iranian demonstrators share protest details globally, activists say

The Independent UK

Whether or not US acquires Greenland, the island will be at the centre of a massive military build-up in the Arctic

Donald Trump is clearly in a hurry to dominate the political narrative in his second term of office. He began 2026 with strikes in Syria against Islamic State groups, the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, threats to intervene in Iran and the declaration that the US would take control…

The Conversation

High inflation, currency collapse and soaring food prices: The damning numbers behind Iran’s economic implosion

IN DEPTH: A currency crash led thousands of Iranians onto the streets late last month. Karl Matchett looks at how Tehran was plunged into economic crisis – and why it is unlikely to improve

The Independent UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Tehran blames 'terrorists' for deaths of demonstrators in Iran

Iranian authorities have intensified their crackdown on nationwide unrest, blaming alleged "terrorists" and releasing graphic descriptions of violence to justify severe legal measures against those they label as "rioters" and "insurgents".

Euronews

First Thing: Hundreds of gunshot eye injuries found in one Iranian hospital amid brutal crackdown on protests

Doctors in Tehran tell of overwhelmed medical staff as Donald Trump promises ‘help is on its way’. Plus, how wildfires are destroying the world’s forests

The Guardian - UK

Iran set to execute protester days after arrest as Tehran speeds up death sentences

Erfan Soltani, 26, was detained at his home in Fardis on 8 January. Four days later, authorities notified his family a death sentence had been issued and confirmed.

Euronews

As many as 15,000 feared dead in Iran as regime hunts Starlink devices, activist tells Euronews

Euronews spoke to Ilia Hashemi, a popular online activist whose Telegram channel is a source of reliable news from within Iran, who has been among the few during the ongoing protests to cover and relay the scant information coming out of Iran despite a regime-imposed internet outage.

Euronews

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Iran’s footballers face battle to be heard as regime brutally clamps down on protests

For Mehdi Taremi and others playing abroad, showing solidarity with their home nation can mean threats and possible detention

The Guardian - UK

Trump warns of 'very strong action' against Iran if protesters executed as over 12,000 feared dead

The US has hinted at military intervention in Iran as the country continues its lethal crackdown on protestors

Evening Standard

'We are facing thousands of deaths' in Iran, MEP tells Euronews

The regime in Tehran is deliberately blocking communications to transmit its propaganda while preventing the truth from reaching the world, especially on the death toll which is reportedly still rising, MEP Hannah Neumann, who chairs the European Parliament's delegation to Iran, told Euronews Parsi.

Euronews

Australia exposed Iranian asylum seeker to torture on Manus, UN says

United Nations says man experienced ‘serious violence’ in detention but Australia argues it did not control PNG facilities

The Guardian - AU

Iran signals fast trials and executions for protesters as death toll in crackdown goes over 2,500

Iran's judiciary chief is signaling fast trials and executions for those detained in nationwide protests

The Independent UK

Newsletter: Metsola predicts Iranian regime collapse; US to host Danish, Greenlandic officials

Also in this newsletter: Trump's Greenland annexation threats loom large as NATO's North Atlantic Council meets, and former EU trade boss Pascal Lamy warns that delaying approval of EU-US trade deal could jeopardise Trump's support for Ukraine.

Euronews

Exclusive: EU Parliament boss calls for swift action against Iranian regime 'on its last legs'

In an interview with Euronews' flagship show Europe Today, European Parliament President Metsola said the EU should not wait for Trump to take swift actions against the Iranian regime - from sanctions to designating the Revolutionary Guard as terrorists. "The regime is on its last legs."

Euronews

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Trump warns of ‘strong action’ against Iran; Randa Abdel-Fattah’s legal threat against SA premier; and tennis practice politics

US president says his country will take ‘very strong action’ against Iran if regime starts to execute people as part of crackdown on protests

The Guardian - UK

US and UK military withdraw some personnel from Middle East amid Iranian threats

Tehran closes its airspace to almost all flights after threatening to strike US bases in Middle East if it carries out pledge to intervene in Iran

Euronews

Iran protest death toll surpasses 2,500 as communication blackout eases

The toll exceeds deaths from any Iranian unrest in decades and recalls chaos surrounding the 1979 Islamic Revolution, analysts said.

The Independent UK

Iran protests latest: Airspace closed along with UK embassy in Tehran as US escalates attack threats

Britain and US remove staff from military base as Donald Trump ‘ready to push button on strikes’ amid repression

Get all your
news in one place.

100's of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Asian benchmarks are mixed after Wall Street pulls back and global uncertainty grows

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

The Conversation

Why Iran can’t afford to shut down the internet forever – even if the world doesn’t act

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…

The Guardian - AU

Iran protests: what we know so far about the spiralling anti-government demonstrations

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

The Guardian - US

Trump news at a glance: president vows to help ‘Iranian Patriots’ in latest signal of military action against Tehran

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

AAP

Deep stress for Iranian Australians in protest blackout

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

The Conversation

Guide to the classics: death-haunted masterpiece The Blind Owl shadows the decline of modern Iran

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…

The Guardian - AU

Iranian airspace reopens – as it happened

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

1 … 529 530 531 532

People

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

the European Parliament

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.