Latest Iran news headlines

• Iran backs China's security architecture for region

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf says that Tehran has always championed a collective security for the region promoted by China.

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• Could Hormuz offer a way out of the US-Iran war?

  The Strait of Hormuz has become one of the most dangerous points of leverage in the US-Iran war, but it may also offer Tehran and Washington their clearest route back to negotiations.

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• Arab media report huge eplosion heard in Jordan

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Some Arab media in the region have reported sound of huge expolsions being heard in Jordan as a result of potential Iranian missile strikes on illegal US bases.

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• Iran Army spox says US failed to achieve war goals

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Iranian Army spokesman says that the US and Israel suffered a major defeat in their latest aggression against Iran, failing to achieve their stated objectives.

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• Araghchi lambasts Jordanian FM remarks about US aggression

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has sharply criticized recent statements made by his Jordanian counterpart, questioning how long Tehran is expected to wait before responding to external aggressions.

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• If Britain backs US plan, Iran's London bank shuts down on October 22

  A bank owned by the Iranian state is still open in London, operating on a temporary permission from the British Treasury that expires on October 22. Renewing it, or letting it lapse, is Britain's answer to Washington's campaign to shut Iran's banks for good.

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• 'If I'm not happy, they'll execute me': Iran's new grammar of dissent

  Iranians have found a way to complain about prices that no prosecutor can touch: they film themselves dancing beside the groceries, insist they are delighted, and explain that if they were not, they would be executed.

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• Iran manufactured, deployed new air defense sys. during war

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Iranian armed forces successfully developed, deployed, and operationalized new air defense systems amid recent military conflicts, according to a senior general.

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• Mad king: how Sanders rebuffs Trump over Hormuz renaming

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – Democrat Senator Bernie Sanders has rebuked the US President Donald Trump over his attempt to rename Iran's Strait of Hormuz, likening him to a "mad king."

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• Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ splinters as allies pursue their own agendas - Economist

  Iran’s so-called “axis of resistance” is unlikely to disappear, but years of war have left its members weakened, increasingly independent and less capable of acting as a coordinated network under Tehran’s direction, The Economist reported.

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• China bans enforcement of U.S. oil sanctions

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – China’s Ministry of Commerce has responded to U.S. sanctions against five Chinese companies linked to Iran’s oil trade by issuing a “blocking order” prohibiting the sanctions from being recognized.

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• Iran resolved to expand cooperation with China: Ejei

  TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – The Head of the Iranian Judiciary has reaffirmed Iran’s “resolve” to expand relations with China, stressing that stronger legal and judicial cooperation can serve as a pillar of broader strategic ties between two nations.

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• Iran has bypassed US naval blockade: oil minister

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Iranian oil minister Minister Mohsen Paknejad says Iran’s crude oil exports continued without interruption throughout the 40-day war, despite attacks on oil and gas infrastructure and the US naval blockade.

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• US strikes deepen Tehran debate over compromise or confrontation

  The latest round of US and Iranian attacks has shifted the debate in Tehran from whether the country is in crisis to a more fundamental question: what does survival now require—compromise or continued confrontation?

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• Reuters analysis confirms US directly hit wedding in Iran

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – A Reuters analysis of video and images from the scene of a US airstrike on a wedding in Iran has concluded the explosion was likely caused by a direct hit from an American munition.

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• Ghalibaf warns Bessent over US oil reserves, bond yields

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has warned US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that rapidly declining strategic oil reserves, rising US Treasury yields and surging oil prices will endager the US economy.

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• Xi snub reignites Iran’s doubts about China

  A fleeting encounter between Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and China’s Xi Jinping in Bishkek has reignited an uncomfortable debate in Tehran: just how strategic is Iran’s much-vaunted partnership with Beijing?

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• US probes Iran wedding strike as experts suggest direct hit

  The United States is investigating whether its forces were responsible for a deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran, Vice President JD Vance said Thursday, as evidence emerged suggesting the building may have been directly hit by a US munition.

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• Trump’s call for an Iranian uprising runs into a trust problem

  Donald Trump’s renewed call for Iranians to rise up against the Islamic Republic has revived a question among some of those he is urging into the streets: after months of shifting US policy, can they trust Washington to stand by them if they do?

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• Five years ago, Iran’s planners put today’s crisis on paper

  An economic forecast produced by Iran’s own government planners more than five years ago projected where continued sanctions would leave inflation and the national currency by 2026—and the numbers have proved strikingly accurate.

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• Iran protest detainee faces execution again after July medical emergency

  Alireza Sepahi, sentenced to death over Iran’s January uprising, faces execution again after being moved to solitary confinement, weeks after a medical emergency halted his first scheduled execution, an informed source told Iran International on Thursday.

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• Have Iran’s hijab enforcers returned to Tehran streets?

  Signs of renewed street-level hijab enforcement have emerged in Tehran and other parts of Iran, including footage of women warning passersby over their clothing, though it remains unclear whether it represents an organized return of hijab patrols.

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• Sexual transmission drives 65% of new HIV cases in Iran

  Sexual transmission accounted for about 65% of newly identified HIV cases in Iran last year, replacing injecting drug use as the main route of new infections as diagnoses among women increased, a leading HIV researcher said on Thursday.

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• Don’t mistaken Iran history depth for size of childhood yard

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Reacting to the recent remarks of US Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent, the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman stated, “Don’t mistake the depth of Iran’s rich history and culture for size of childhood yard.”

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• US attack against Iranian civilians to not go unpunished

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Denouncing the terrorist US' satanic, inhumane aggression against Iranian civilians, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) chief commander stressed the US attacks against innocent Iranian people will not go unanswered.

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• Iran rights group seeks German probe into crimes against humanity

  A rights group has asked German prosecutors to investigate crimes against humanity by Iranian authorities, presenting evidence of thousands of killings and mass detentions during nationwide protests that began in late 2025 and early 2026.

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• UN mission urges Iran to drop bill criminalizing foreign contacts

  The UN’s fact-finding mission on Iran called for the immediate withdrawal of legislation that could expose Iranians to up to 30 years in prison for contact with foreign individuals and organizations, according to a statement released Thursday.

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• Iran drug shortages hit 800 medicines as costs could triple

  Iran faces shortages of about 800 medicines, including dozens considered vital, as currency constraints and import disruptions threaten to drive some drug costs as much as threefold, Iranian local media reported on Thursday.

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• Women footballers came home under pressure. Now Iran wants them on camera

  Five months after Iran's women footballers sought asylum in Australia, the football federation has called the squad back into camp, not to train but to film a documentary about what happened there. Some of the players it wants on camera are the ones who came home under pressure.

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• Iran’s Army to be present with utmost strength when required

  TEHRAN, Sep. 03 (MNA) – Iran’s Army Ground Forces Commander Brigadier General Jahanshahi has said, “Wherever Iran’s interests require it, we will be present with full force and strength.”

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