iranintl – More than 100 prisoners accused of spying for Israel are facing imminent execution in Iran after the bombing of Tehran’s Evin prison in June, lawyers and survivors told The Sunday Times. The judiciary has accelerated death sentences since Israel struck the prison on June 23. Human rights lawyers said the attack gave judges a pretext for vengeance. “A …

iranintl – Iran expelled more than 1.8 million undocumented migrants who are mainly Afghans over the past year, an interior ministry official said on Sunday, adding that at least 800,000 more must leave under the government’s removal plan. The program began with classifying migrants into legal and illegal groups to provide services to the former and facilitate the return of …

iranintl – President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear sites in June without alerting US diplomats, leaving them unable to answer questions from foreign governments, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Officials from Middle East countries pressed for answers after the strikes, but US embassies could only point to Trump’s public remarks, the Journal said, citing people involved …

iranintl – Israel must prepare for another round of confrontation with Iran and ensure that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei will be killed in the next campaign, former defense minister Yoav Gallant said on Saturday, over two months after the archenemies’ 12-day war. “Although Khamenei was not eliminated in this round, his elimination must be part of any plan of the …

iranintl – Israel managed to pinpoint the location of Iran’s top authorities during June’s 12-day war by hacking the mobile phones carried by their bodyguards, The New York Times reported Saturday, citing Iranian and Israeli officials. “We know senior officials and commanders did not carry phones, but their interlocutors, security guards and drivers had phones, they did not take precautions …

iranintl – Yemen’s Houthi rebels confirmed on Saturday that their prime minister, Ahmad Ghaleb al-Rahwi, and several ministers were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the capital, Sanaa. The announcement was made by Mahdi al-Mashat, head of the group’s Supreme Political Council. According to the Houthis, al-Rahawi and his colleagues were holding a cabinet meeting when the …

gatestoneinstitute.org – At the time, [US President Barack Obama’s JCPOA agreement] seemed a good deal for Iran and was hailed by then President Hassan Rouhani as “a great diplomatic victory,” because all it demanded was that Iran not do what it has always said it wasn’t doing and would never do: build nuclear weapons. The problem isn’t enriching uranium at …

iranintl – Eight people were arrested on suspicion of attempting to pass sensitive information about military officials and strategic sites to Israel’s Mossad, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced on Saturday. “These individuals, who had received their specialized training online from agents of Mossad, had sent the coordinates of vital and sensitive centers, as well as information related to prominent military figures, …

iranintl – The sands of time fall swiftly through the glass, and with each passing day the Islamic Republic of Iran is borne closer to the fateful hour: 18 October 2025, when a 2015 nuclear deal finally expires. What was once heralded as a diplomatic triumph—a landmark nuclear agreement that promised peace in our time—now stands battered, its legal scaffolding …

iranintl – Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi told Eye for Iran that the Islamic Republic was not long for this world and that the Iranian people must rally together to uproot what she called a corrupt and violent system to win a brighter future. “An overthrow must take place. I hope this overthrow will happen without a heavy price …