The Iraqi government is looking to gain control of Iranian-aligned armed groups that operate inside of Iraq but outside state control, in yet another sign of Iran's weakened position since October 7.

The Iranian government spokesperson has announced that a train linking Iran's Tehran to Turkey’s Van is slated to be launched in late March 2025.

Pahlavi, a self-proclaimed advocate for a secular democratic Iran, fled Iran with his family following the 1979 Islamic Revolution

TEHRAN - Train services between Van and Tehran will restart after a hiatus of several months.

And in 2024 came Reading Lolita in Tehran, directed by Eran Riklis, who is Israeli, and adapted from a book by an Iranian author, with an almost entirely Iranian cast. The film premiered at the Rome Film Fest last year and is now starting to tour the United States.

Donald Trump said a new deal with Iran would be "nice," but the country's foreign minister said it was "obviously not enough". He added: "The situation is different and much more difficult than the previous time.

In Davos, Mohammad Javad Zarif also says Israel failed in its Gaza war objectives, Tehran not building nukes; report says Iran to receive missile fuel shipment from China

Iranian stuntwoman Nasrin Teymouri directs and trains Iran's first female stunt team, which has nearly 20 female students of different ages, most of them passionate about cinema. Teymouri says being a stuntwoman was once considered taboo for women in Iranian society and says many stuntmen in the film industry still resent women entering the profession.

The two judges, Mohammad Moghiseh and Ali Razini, dealt with sensitive cases, a spokesman said. Moghiseh was known to handle death penalty cases for activists.

Two senior judges in Iran’s Supreme Court were shot dead in Tehran on Saturday in an attack that authorities blamed on the US and Israel.

On Saturday morning, a gunman assassinated two Iranian judges outside the Supreme Court in Tehran. Hujjatoleslam Razini and Hujjatoleslam Moghiseh were martyred in the terrorist attack. The attacker committed suicide immediately after conducting the attack. pic.twitter.com/jImUP1qXun

The debut season of the spy thriller show The Agency recently came to an explosive conclusion on January 26, 2025.