The former deputy of the current speaker of Iran's parliament is on trial on corruption charges, crimes that happened when both were at the helm of Tehran city government.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard is posed to grab the country's automotive industry, which is in deep trouble due to U.S. sanctions.
Up to eight suspects in a big corruption case in Iran have fled abroad, possibly Europe, including a former judge who put many journalists in jail.
Within hours from the Judiciary Spokesman's announcement on June 9 of the death sentence of a "collaborator" who informed CIA and Mossad on slain Commander Qassem Soleimani's whereabouts, the Media Center of the Judiciary said the spy case had nothing to do with Soleimani's death.
Iran's "coronavirus spokesman" has been replaced by the health minister after showing tendencies of being occasionally outspoken.
Iran's Judiciary Spokesman Gholam-Hossein Emaili on Junee 9 said a collaborator who had provided foreign intelligence services with details of movements of Qods Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, has been sentenced to death.
Amid economic crisis and a sinking national currency, the Central Bank of Iran has issued a new directive limiting the amount of foreign currency people can keep or carry.
The U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) updated the list of Iranian ships subject to sanctions on Sunday, June 7.
Congressional Republicans are planning to introduce legislation this week to ensure tougher measures targeting Iran that would add to President Donald Trump’s “maximum pressure”.
The Islamic Republic intelligence agents arrested a prominent Iranian lawyer Ali Mojtahedzadeh on Monday, June 8, in Tehran, apparently for criticizing corruption at the Judiciary.
Iran's chief justice is crying foul and accusing the West of sheltering people evading corruption charges, while most who flee Iran are regime insiders.
All students of medicine, dentistry and pharmacology in Iran must take courses in Islamic or traditional medicine, the health ministry has announced, despite concerns about potential harm to people's health.
Finally Iran adopts a law to protect children and minors. The law was bogged down for nearly a decade as a conservative watchdog brought up objections.
Iranian news agencies on June 7 reported that "seminary students and representatives of Armed Forces" staged a sit-in in front of a zoorkhaneh – place for practising an ancient sport – in protest to women taking up the men-only sport.
During a corruption trial in Iran on Sunday a prosecutor known for the mass arrest of journalists in 2013 was named as the recipient of 500,000 euros in bribes from the defendant.
The Islamic Republic's Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Sunday, June 7, that Iran was ready to swap "other prisoners" with the United States.
Iran’s Economy and Finance Minister has said the coronavirus pandemic has cost his country a 15 percent drop in Gross Domestic Product.
The former executive deputy of the Islamic Republic's powerful Judiciary has gone on trial for large-scale corruption on Sunday, June 7 in Tehran.
A female Kurdish political prisoner sentenced to life is infected with coronavirus but refused treatment in a hospital.
The Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister has told RFE/RL that Iran cannot demand any conditions for the handover of flight recorders of the Ukrainian airliner that the Revolutionary Guard dawned over Tehran in January.
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