The Latest Breaking News from Iran

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

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

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…