The first domestically built diesel car with Euro-6 emissions technology has been launched by Iran Khodro Diesel Company (IKDC), the country’s largest producer of commercial vehicles. Images of the Foton Tunland, a V-6 pickup truck with 235 horsepower that IKDC officials indicated will join the market in the following three months, were featured in local media reports on Sunday. The truck is... 

An Iranian protester was sentenced to death today for setting fire to a government building, the first known use of capital punishment for participation in an anti-regime ‘riot’. The death sentence is the latest attempt by the Iranian government to suppress the protests which have swept the country since the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody in September after she was... 

Amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, there are growing concerns about the alignment of Russia, Iran, and China, forming a potential axis of collaboration against the West. Security experts warn of the implications of this alliance, particularly as Iran reportedly seeks Russian assistance to enhance its nuclear weapons program in the absence of a new deal following the collapse of the 2015 nuclear... 

Iran sparked fury in Kyiv as the country admitted for the first time on Saturday that it had sent drones to Russia – but insisted they were supplied to its ally before Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In response, Kyiv has warned Iran that the ‘consequences’ of supporting Russia in its war against Ukraine are greater than the ‘benefits’. This comes as Kyiv and its... 

Western newspapers are incorrectly naming these Iranian flying weapons as “drones” or “suicide drones” or “kamikaze drones”, while in fact they aren’t really drones but just remote controlled missiles. However for the sake of of it, we will just go along with the Western description…. ok fine…. drones! Whatever…. but they really aren’t,... 

On Saturday night, Evin Prison in Tehran, the capital of Iran, caught fire. Video footage from the time showed smoke and flames billowing from the jail. Widespread, for some weeks now, anti-government protests were taking place when the fire started. Social media users posted videos of the jail facility on fire while an alarm blared and what appeared to be gunshots were heard. The jail caught fire... 

Parts of Iran now resemble combat zones, with flares lighting up the sky, gunfire booming out, and deadly incidents captured on film, over a month after the commencement of widespread protests. One protester sent a message from Sanandaj, a city in western Iran with a significant Kurdish population where, despite an almost complete internet blackout there, some of the rallies’ most dramatic photos... 

Iran’s exiled queen Farah Pahlavi has once again called on military forces not to allow the Islamic Republic’s authorities to use them as “tools of repression.” In an audio message on her twitter account on Wednesday, Pahlavi addressed police forces, the army, the Revolutionary Guard, paramilitary Basij forces and plainclothes agents to imagine their own sisters, brothers, fathers and mothers... 

Amid widespread anti-government protests, Iran is facing a slow collapse of the ruling Islamic Republic regime, according to Iranian expert Dr Roham Alvandi. The demonstrations, triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, pose a significant challenge to Iran’s clerical leaders. Unlike previous protests, the current unrest involves unarmed young people standing... 

Iran’s president has called for a ‘decisive’ crackdown on the mass protests that have sent the Islamic theocracy reeling over the past week after the death in custody of a woman detained by the Islamic Republic’s morality police. The call for harsh measures come as the country’s ayatollahs scramble to get to grips with violent countrywide demonstrations that have seen... 

In reaction to Tehran’s “unfriendly act” of supplying combat drones to Russia, Ukraine said on Friday that it had withdrawn the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador in Kiev and would “seriously reduce” the number of diplomats stationed there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that providing weapons to Moscow “directly contradicts the position... 

Dictator buddies Putin and Rouhani Iran is believed to be providing Moscow with hundreds of drones following extraordinary losses suffered by Russia during the invasion of Ukraine. So-called “suicide drones” have been used by both sides to devastating effect. Ukraine’s air force claimed to have shot down four Iranian suicide drones in the Mykolaiv region in southern Ukraine. Suicide... 

In spite of the government’s attempt to quell discontent with an internet blackout, protests are raging across the country, and the father of an Iranian lady who died in police detention last week has accused officials of lying about her death. Doctors wouldn’t allow Amjad Amini visit his daughter after she passed away, according to Amjad Amini, whose daughter Mahsa passed away following... 

In the footage, a sizable audience applauds as a lady raises a pair of scissors to her hair while showing no sign of wearing a headscarf. She chops off her ponytail and raises her fist in the air as the sea of people, many of whom are guys, yell. It was a potent display of defiance on Tuesday night in Kerman, Iran, where women are required to cover their heads in public. It was just one of numerous... 

Cooperation between Iran and Russia in the modern technologies sector predates the Ukrainian crisis, according to Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani. The Foreign Ministry spokesman made his remarks Tuesday in response to claims by U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan about Iran’s sale of modern technical breakthroughs to Russia. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan...