Iran

• Iran's top diplomat issues most direct threat yet to US as crackdown over protests squeezes nation - Iran's foreign minister issued the most direct threat yet Wednesday against the United States after Tehran's bloody crackdown on protesters, warning the Islamic Republic will be “firing back with everything we have if we come under renewed
• Internet shutdown squeezes Iran's ailing businesses already hurt by crashing currency - Iranians have been struggling for nearly two weeks with the longest, most comprehensive internet shutdown in the history of the Islamic Republic — one that has not only restricted their access to information and the outside world, but is al
• Child among protesters sexually assaulted in Iran, rights group says - HRW and Amnesty warn that Tehran uses rape, sexual violence, and torture to suppress dissent, continuing a pattern of violence following previous protests. Content warning: This article contains references and descriptions of sexual violenc
• Gold and silver surge to fresh highs as investors digest Trump's push for Greenland and flock to safer assets - U.S. gold and silver futures peaked on Monday as investors flock to safe-haven assets.
• Reports: Shiite militias assisted Iran protest crackdown - Foreign militias were also reportedly involved in the recent violent suppression of the mass protests in Iran that are feared to have left many thousands dead and injured. Over the past 10 days, members of Shiite militias from Lebanon were
• Kurdish separatist group claims to have mounted ‘armed operations' in Iran to defend protesters - An Iranian Kurdish separatist group in Iraq said it has launched attacks on Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in recent days in retaliation for Tehran’s violent crackdown on protests. Members of the National Army of Kurdistan, the ar
• Iran Protests Quelled Since Deadly Crackdown, Residents Say - “There is massive disappointment and disillusionment,” one Tehran resident said. A human rights group acknowledged that demonstrations had been subdued since Sunday, with thousands of people detained.
• Prayer leader in Iran and the faithful call for executions over protests, a red line for Trump - A hard-line cleric leading Friday prayers in Iran's capital demanded the death penalty for protesters detained in a nationwide crackdown and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump, showing the rage gripping authorities in the Islam
• 'Markets are callous': Why stocks aren't fazed by Iran, Greenland or Venezuela - One fund manager described stocks' continued moves higher, despite escalating tensions, as "equity market 'meh.'"
• She set a photo afire, lit a cigarette — and became a symbol of resistance for Iran protesters - With one puff of a cigarette, a woman in Canada became a global symbol of defiance against Iran's bloody crackdown on dissent — and the world saw the flame. It ignites, illuminating the visage of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest cler