Iran's Revolutionary Guard has continued to attack Kurdish rebel bases in Iraq this week, with some saying that it might be preparing for a much larger operation.
New figures published by the World Bank shows Iran's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) declined to $192 billion in 2020, compared with $445 billion in 2017.
Three human rights groups will convene a People's Tribunal in London in November to hear victim and eyewitness testimony of Iran's 2019 protest killings and determine responsibility.
Iran's new president Ebrahim Raisi has pleadged to build four million housing units in four years, but some in the media and ordinary Iranians skeptical if Iran can afford it.
Irna International has received more documents from a hacking group revealing letter sent by a prison security chief in 2020 warning of perils during a possible foreign military attack.
Iran says the absence of its president at the Baghdad Conference for Cooperation did not signify a change of policy, while an anticipated meeting with Saudi Arabia did not take place.
More than 570 civic, political, university and trade union activists in Iran have condemned the the ban on importing Western vaccines by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
Iranian officials and a hardliner lawmaker are trying to discredit prison abuse videos published by hackers, saying some of the footage is fake and produced by "Zionists".
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has lashed out at the United States and said what President Joe Biden demands from Iran is no different from what former US President Donald Trump wanted.