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Illustrative: US and Israeli flags are pasted on the ground in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 16, 2026, 4:45 pm
Iran pushes bill to criminalize journalists’ communication with ‘hostile media’
Legislation would further outlaw contact with foreign media, send Iranians who interview with US or Israeli outlets to prison amid crackdown on journalists in the Islamic Republic
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani (L) meets with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi at the Italian Foreign Ministry in Rome before Iran-US nuclear talks Iran at the Omani embassy, April 19, 2025. (Italian Foreign Ministry via AFP)
April 20, 2025, 6:04 pm
Iranian press cautiously optimistic on nuclear talks, touts Tehran’s leverage
Conservative Kayhan newspaper says ‘Iran’s military might has forced America to negotiate’; regime still refusing to dismantle nuclear program as part of any deal
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian newspapers seen in downtown Tehran, Iran, Nov. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
November 30, 2022, 6:07 pm
Female journalist arrested in Iran amid wave of protests, says her employer
Nastaran Farokheh arrested and her phone and laptop confiscated for reasons that are ‘not yet clear,’ says Shargh daily newspaper where she works
By AFP
The front pages of the Iranian newspapers, Vatan-e Emrooz, front, with title reading in Farsi: "Knife in the neck of Salman Rushdie," and Hamshahri, rear, with title: "Attack on writer of Satanic Verses," are pictured in Tehran, August 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
August 14, 2022, 6:08 pm
Iranian newspaper: Rushdie attack may be US plot to spread Islamophobia
Another newspaper in the Islamic Republic writes that the stabbing ‘proves that exacting revenge on criminals on American soil is not difficult’
By AFP
Front page of Iran's state-run daily newspaper Kayhan on April 28, 2022. (Screenshot)
April 28, 2022, 9:46 pm
On Holocaust Remembrance Day, Iran paper publishes antisemitic piece praising Hitler
Opinion piece in state-run Kayhan calls Jews ‘a people known for their stubbornness, objections and excuses,’ praising ‘the logic that Hitler showed by expelling them from Germany’
By Tobias Siegal
A woman uses a smartphone while standing on a street in the Iranian capital Tehran on November 23, 2019. (ATTA KENARE/AFP)
January 26, 2022, 4:17 pm
Iran arrests 17 people over ‘panic spreading’ prank videos
Tehran police chief says clips ‘play with people’s nerves, security and peace’; prankster defends actions, says he ‘only wanted to make people happy and gain more followers’
By Amir Vahdat
In this August 1, 2009, photo released by the semi-official Iranian Fars News Agency, Newsweek reporter Maziar Bahari attends a press conference after his trial in Tehran (AP Photo/Fars News Agency, Hossein Salehi Ara, file)
June 25, 2020, 2:12 pm
Rights group: Iran TV aired 355 suspected coerced confessions over past decade
Report details case of Maziar Ebrahimi, who said he and 11 others were tortured to falsely claim they had assassinated nuclear scientists for Israel
By Jon Gambrell
The gate of the Iran's semiofficial ISNA news agency is seen in Tehran, Iran, June 5, 2020. (AP Photo)
June 5, 2020, 11:01 am
Iran news agency head convicted for interviewee’s criticism of Iranian spying
ISNA chief Ali Motaghian could reportedly get 2-year prison sentence, lashes, over interview with ex-ambassador on Tehran’s ‘arbitrary’ intelligence operations in Europe
By Jon Gambrell
Qassem Soleimani is seen moments before his killing in a US drone strike in an Iranian animated video (Courtesy MEMRI)
February 14, 2020, 2:46 pm
Iran animation shows killing of Soleimani, Tehran’s ‘harsh revenge’ on US base
Clip depicts final moments of general slain in US drone strike, mass protests that followed and the eventual missile strike that targeted American troops in Iraq
By ToI Staff
An Iranian video shows country's forces killing US President Donald Trump in revenge for the killign of top general Qassem Soleimani. (Fars screenshot)
January 15, 2020, 3:24 am
Iranian video depicts killing of Trump, Netanyahu in assault on White House
Clip aired by country’s Fars news agency dramatizes officials’ decision to take revenge against US and Israel for killing of Qassem Soleimani
By ToI Staff
A spokesman for Iran's Revolutionary Guards (right) is seen weeping after announcing the death of top general Qassem Soleimani, January 3, 2020 (MEMRI screenshot)
January 4, 2020, 8:53 pm
Revolutionary Guards spokesman weeps while announcing Soleimani’s death
TV clip from Iran shows official, TV reporter get emotional as they discuss killing of top general; another video shows worshipers burst into tears as they hear of his death
By ToI Staff and Agencies
The front cover of the May 11, 2019 edition of the Iranian weekly reformist magazine, Seda, center, is photographed along with other periodicals in Tehran, Iran, May 12, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
May 12, 2019, 4:26 pm
Iranian reformist magazine shuttered after urging talks with US
Seda weekly called for regime to engage diplomatically with Washington to defuse tensions and stave off risk of ‘widespread war’
By AP
A false HispanTV report claims Israel performs medical experiments on Palestinian prisoners. (HispanTV screenshot via JTA)
April 6, 2019, 5:16 am
Iranian news site in Latin America: Israel performs medical tests on prisoners
Fake HispanTV article spreads to news outlets across region, despite citing no evidence
By JTA
The USS Mitscher, part of a strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier, sails as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessel shadows it on December 21, 2018. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)
February 6, 2019, 9:40 am
Iran airs animation showing its submarine sinking a US aircraft carrier
Video release is part of celebrations marking 40 years since the Islamic Revolution
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Iranians shop in the capital Tehran's grand bazar on November 3, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
December 2, 2018, 6:56 pm
Iran arrests population expert accused of spy links
State media says fertility researcher Meimanat Hosseini Chavoshi faces espionage charges for aiding foreign ‘cultural and social invasion’
By AFP
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