Reformist candidate Masoud Pezeshkian and conservative hardliner Saeed Jalili will go to a run-off vote in Iran's presidential election, the country's electoral authority says
The Iranian Election Commission announces a second round of presidential elections next Friday
Iranian Interior Ministry: Popular participation in the presidential elections reached 40%
4 month agoIran’s acting FM had phone calls with EU FP chief, UN Secretary General as well as foreign ministers of Germany, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Cyprus in past 24 hours to discuss the situation in Gaza
IAEA report seen by Reuters: at underground plant at Natanz, Iran has fed natural uranium into three more IR-2m cascades and three IR-4 cascades for passivation (preparing for enrichment) @reuters
The Iranian Election Commission extends the voting period until eight o'clock in the evening, local time
The US sanctioned three entities and eleven vessels for trading oil and petrochemical products with Iran
Iranians are voting on Friday in a presidential election called after the death of ultraconservative president Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month
The Commander of the Quds Force in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard calls on the people to elect the candidate who completes the career of the late President Ebrahim Raisi
4 month agoSecond conservative presidential candidate and the mayor of Tehran, Alireza Zakani, withdrew from the race, urging major conservative contenders, Jalili and Ghalibaf, to unite in order to defeat the reformist hopeful Pezeshkian
Gazprom signed a memorandum with Iran on Russian gas supplies. Russian Gazprom signed a memorandum with the National Iranian Gas Company (NIGC) on the supply of Russian pipeline gas to Iran
4 month agoPer @USTreasury, Iran' network of exchange houses & companies in HongKong UAE & Marshall Islands moved moved hundreds of millions for dollars’ worth of revenue from oil sales, currency exchangesThe money is then used to procure/develop drones & other weaponry
4 month agoUS looking to undercut Iran's “shadow banking” networkPer @USTreasury, Washington's sanctioned 50 entities, individuals used by Iran's military & IRGC "to gain illicit access to the international financial system & process the equivalent of billions of dollars since 2020"
Israeli Defense Minister: The U.S. administration must prevent Iran from possessing a nuclear weapon
US Secretary of Defense: The Israeli people face a real threat from Iran
US Treasury: Imposing sanctions on entities linked to the Iranian Ministry of Defense
Washington imposes new sanctions on Iran
Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: We are concerned about Iran's lack of cooperation with the Atomic Energy Agency
Head of the European Union delegation to the United Nations: Diplomacy is the best way to ensure the purely peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program
U.S.'s representative to the United Nations: Iran continues to fuel conflict and instability in the Middle East
Deputy US envoy to the Security Council: Iran must make more efforts to prevent escalation
The European Union imposes sanctions on a research center affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
Turkish Armed Forces dispatched signal jamming systems to Idlib to prevent kamikaze drone attacks by the Assad government and Iranian militias.
4 month agoThe Islamic Republic's security forces have imposed movement restrictions against Iran's former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources confirmed to @IranIntl. The limitations were imposed after his return from a trip to northern Iran. Ahmadinejad, who's turned into a critic of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's policies in recent years, was recently barred from running for president for the third time in a row
4 month agoStrong explosion on Syrian border as an Iraqi ammo depot blew up. It happened in Um Al-Jiban, W. of Sinjar, few km from Syria
Ali Bagheri, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, met Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the political bureau of Hamas, in Doha
Iran's Supreme Court overturned the death sentence of a football coach accused of sexually assaulting 8 boys. The early teens said he lured them to his house for training and harassed them. Some victims said they were forced into sexual relations with each other and blackmailed
Iranian Foreign Ministry: Tehran reserves the right to respond to Canada's decision to declare the Revolutionary Guard a "terrorist organization"
Canada classifies the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization
Washington Post: Indications that Iran is expanding work inside the Natanz facility, which could nearly triple the site's production of enriched uranium
