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Iran’s banking sector continues to face severe service disruptions, with Sepah and Pasargad banks still struggling to fully resume operations after cyberattacks blamed on Israeli-linked groups.

Tehran’s stock market reopened after a 12-day conflict between Iran and Israel with a sharp collapse, as investor anxiety triggered a sweeping sell-off.

Iranian authorities have summoned and interrogated at least 35 Jewish citizens in Tehran and Shiraz over their contact with relatives in Israel, the US-based human rights group HRANA said.

Iranian authorities said they have executed three men accused of smuggling equipment allegedly used in the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, a senior figure in Iran's nuclear program who was assassinated in 2020.

Iranian intelligence forces have arrested more than 700 Iranians accused of acting as agents for Israel over the past 12 days, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News Agency reported on Tuesday.

The Islamic Republic will not return to what it was before the Israeli and American airstrikes, but what comes next is uncertain, experts tell Iran International.

At least sixteen people including staff members at Tehran’s Evin Prison were killed on Monday after Israeli strikes hit the jail's buildings as well as other arms of the Islamic Republic’s security apparatus, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Iran has launched a direct missile attack on US forces stationed at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in a dangerous new escalation that followed the American airstrikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities.

The US and Israel may have altered the trajectory of the Mideast with military strikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure—but without a broader strategy for internal change, the window of opportunity could quickly close, experts told Iran International.

Israeli airstrikes across Iran on Saturday killed senior military personnel and a nuclear scientist while the United States moved heavy B-2 bombers to a Pacific airbase as it weighs attacking Iran's nuclear facilities.

Donald Trump’s 14-day deadline on Iran is a strategic pause to allow US forces to fully deploy in the Middle East as he mulls airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, former commander of US forces in the region David Petraeus told Iran International.

A new investigation by Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT alleges that Tehran enlisted Swedish gangs to carry out targeted attacks in Europe, with Iran International among the key targets.

As Israel continues striking Iran and Tehran fires missiles in retaliation, a new German intelligence report warns that Iranian efforts to acquire missile-related technology in Europe surged in 2024.

Top Senate Democrats on Wednesday accused US President Donald Trump of risking war with Iran without legal authority, hours after Trump said the Islamic Republic’s downfall was possible and suggested he might bomb key nuclear sites.

Amid mass evacuation orders and fears of wider conflict, Iranians at home and abroad are reporting major disruptions to banking and internet services, adding to the chaos as Israeli airstrikes and US warnings drive thousands to flee major cities.

The hacker group Predatory Sparrow claimed responsibility on Tuesday for a cyberattack targeting Bank Sepah, one of Iran’s oldest financial institutions with ties to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Army.

Israel’s military campaign against Iran continued through Monday, and Iran fired another salvo of missiles towards Israel, but the headlines were grabbed by President Trump calling for immediate evacuation of Tehran.

Israel’s military confirmed it bombed the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) headquarters in Tehran on Monday, knocking its main news channels off the air and igniting a fire that continued burning late into the night.