Iran Update, October 3, 2025

The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) publish the Iran Update, which provides insights into Iranian and Iranian-sponsored activities that undermine regional stability...

Iran sanctions snapback heralds suffering, possible war

The renewed restrictions are biting deep into society, yet they are ultimately the result of Tehran’s own policies, economist Mahdi Ghodsi told Eye for Iran. “In the past 10 years, the real income of Iranians has been halved. The middle class has...

Tehran court upholds long prison terms for five Christian converts

An Islamic Revolutionary Court had originally sentenced Morteza (Calvin) Faghanpour Sassi, Abolfazl (Benjamin) Ahmadzadeh Khajani, Hossam al-Din (Yahya) Mohammad Joneydi, and two others whose names were not disclosed. The defendants have chosen...

Iranian activist among Gaza flotilla participants detained by Israel

Renaz Ebrahimi, 34, holds Finnish citizenship - one of the many nationalities represented on board the so-called Global Sumud Flotilla, which includes participants from various countries including Spain, Italy, Turkey and Malaysia. In a video...

Iranian oil executive barred from Canada for being senior regime official

A former executive in Tehran’s state oil company has been barred from entering Canada on the grounds he was a senior member of the Iranian regime. In a ruling handed down on Thursday, the Federal Court upheld the government’s decision to deny...

‘No gender concerns’ with Iranian women’s football teams, Fifa official says

A Fifa medical officer on Tuesday rejected media reports that Iran had broken rules by fielding women footballers, winners of a recent Asian championship, who were actually men. Days after Iran triumphed at the inaugural Asian Women’s Futsal...

Hengaw: Ten Afghan Nationals Executed in Iran in September

An Iranian human rights organization named “Hengaw” has reported that around ten Afghan nationals were executed in Iran during the month of September this year alone. According to the report, a total of at least 187 people were executed in Iran in...

Afghanistan and Iran Step Up Efforts to Boost Trade Relations

As part of ongoing efforts to strengthen economic and trade relations between Afghanistan and Iran, Alireza Bikdeli, the acting ambassador of Iran in Kabul, told TOLOnews that commercial and economic cooperation between the two countries is on the...

Dubai-Based Iranian Lawyer Katayoon Rahimian Launches New Company

Specialising in criminal and international law, Katayoon’s new company aims to simplify the legal and business set up process 4 October 2025, Dubai, UAE: Katayoon Rahimian, a licensed Iranian lawyer based in Dubai, has officially launched her new...

Russia and Iran Oppose U.S. Return to Bagram Air Base

Recent remarks by Donald Trump, the President of the United States, about reclaiming the Bagram air base have sparked reactions in the East, particularly from Russia and Iran. The spokesperson for Russia’s Foreign Ministry, reacting to Trump’s...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian: Tehran Is Running Out of Water, 'We Are Compelled' to Relocate Capital City

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who is subordinate to “supreme leader” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, described the inevitable need to relocate the capital of his country out of Tehran during remarks on Thursday, citing an unsolvable water and...

Col. Macgregor: ‘It appears we are on a collision path with Iran yet again’

Blogs 'Is the U.S. preparing for a larger war?' This was the question with which LifeSiteNews reached out to Colonel Douglas Macgregor for a recent interview. (LifeSiteNews) — “Is the U.S. preparing for a larger war?” This was the question with...

Israeli army reservist indicted on Iran spying charges

Prosecutors said that the man, identified as 27-year-old Maor Kringel, was arrested in August after more than a year of carrying out espionage missions for Iranian agents. According to the indictment, Kringel had been in contact with individuals...

Canadian court blocks entry of former Iranian oil executive – Global News

The ruling concerns Mohammadreza Mazloumi Aboukheili, 64, a former director of operations at the National Iranian Oil Products Distribution Company, a state-owned firm reporting to Iran’s Ministry of Petroleum. He had applied for a visa to visit...

U.S. Denies Visas to Iranian Delegation Ahead of 2026 World Cup Draw

The U.S. State Department has denied visas for Iran’s football delegation, preventing them from attending the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington, D.C. The news follows an executive order issued earlier this year by U.S. President Donald Trump,...

Iran expands it ‘shadow empire’ across Middle East as Trump pulls troops from Iraq, Syria

US withdrawal from Iraq poses serious threat of a power vacuum as Iran has drastically expanded is operations across Syria and Iraq. NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Just six months after the Trump administration said it would begin...

IRGC’s Qaani denies Iran’s Involvement in the October 7

2025-10-03T19:44:36+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News – Tehran Quds Force Commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Esmail Qaani, affirmed that Iran, Hezbollah, and the political leadership of Hamas were not...

Education International condemns escalating repression of Iranian teacher union activists

Education International (EI) has issued a strong condemnation of the Iranian government’s intensifying crackdown on teacher union activists, particularly members of the Coordinating Council of Iranian Teachers’ Trade Associations (CCITTA), EI’s...

US sanctions on Iran challenges India, opens the door to China

New Delhi is weighing the consequences of the end of US exemptions on the Iranian port of Chabahar, in which it has invested hundreds of millions of dollars as a strategic hub to Central Asia and a counterweight to China's presence in Gwadar. New...

Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions

AMID the continuing disorienting cacophony of war in the Middle East, and the horrific toll being exacted upon the Palestinian people in particular, while the international community and its representative organisations look on, unable or...