In an unprecedented move, the representatives of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the provinces of Ardabil, East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, and Zanjan, have issued a joint statement supporting the Republic of Azerbaijan.
A day after the dollar reached 300,000 rials, the governor of the Central Bank of Iran (CBI), Abdol Nasser Hemmati, said that the news concerning the Trump administration's plan to "completely cut off Iran's financial system" had a "psychological effect" on the Iranian foreign exchange market.
Jailed Iranian lawyer and human rights advocate, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been named one of the winners of an international award known as the Alternative Nobel Prize.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is hailing the signing of a 25-year cooperative agreement between Iran and China as a "major step" in advancing Tehran and Beijing's shared interests.
According to data collected from TankerTrackers, Iran has managed to increase its oil exports significantly in September despite U.S. sanctions, Reuters reports.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani's Chief of Staff, Mahmoud Vaezi, denied several reports on Wednesday, September 30, that Iran is assisting Armenia in its war with the neighboring Republic of Azerbaijan.
Faramarz Tofiqi, the chairman of Iran's Wage Committee of the Supreme Labor Council, says that the minimum rate of the "subsistence basket" in Iran increased from seventy-five million rials (about $1,780) in August to nearly eighty million rials (roughly $1900) in September.
Reporters Without Borders (Reporters Sans Frontières) has condemned the transfer of political prisoner Soheil Arabi to solitary confinement in the infamous Raja'ei Shahr prison.
In a speech at a public ceremony on Monday, September 28, Zarif commemorated Soleimani as "ISIS' enemy number one," adding that the deadly operation was proof of the Americans' "cowardice and savagery."
Mohammed Moradi, the father of a young man detained in the November 2019 protests against Iran's Islamic Republic regime committed suicide at his home on Monday, September 28, the Iranian website Emtedad News reports.
In a video message titled the "New Pact," the exiled Prince Reza Pahlavi defended the widespread protests and strikes inside Iran, saying that the protesters sought to "save" their country.
Iraq's top cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani is facing criticism for his comments during a meeting with the UN Secretary-General's representative for Iraqi affairs.
The former Chief-Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, Major General Yahya Rahim Safavi, says Iran is helping Venezuela to form a mobilization force.
China's imports from Iran have dropped to the lowest record in the past decade, with Chinese customs data showing the number falling below $322 million in August.
In a statement on Saturday, September 26, the Iranian Writers Association (IWA) said that three of its members had been placed behind bars in Tehran's infamous Evin prison.
In another jump on Saturday, September 26, the dollar passed the 290,000 rials mark and sold for 29,300 rials in the local open markets.
Currently, about 31 percent of the gas used to generate power in Iraq is imported from Iran.
The 47 countries present at this week's United Nations Human Rights Council meeting condemned the sudden execution of the young Iranian wrestler, Navid Afkari.
"The return of the United States to the nuclear deal is the first step that they should take. For this return, [the US] must compensate for damage it caused to the Iranian nation," Zarif told Russian news outlet Sputnik.
In its latest monthly report, the World Steel Association (WSA) says that Iran's crude steel production in the first eight months of 2020 grew by more than eleven percent to 18.6 million tons.
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