The day before nuclear talks were set to resume, Iran conducted live drills in the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic waterway for oil and gas shipments ... .
Producer Deepak Mukut acknowledged that SanamTeri Kasam did not perform well at the box office upon its initial release, but said he always believed in its emotional strength ....
The authorities are making mass arrests, seizing assets and hunting down doctors who treated protesters. Some Iranians keep showing defiance anyway ... .
The rights activist Narges Mohammadi is protesting her continued detention, her family said. She was arrested again in December after being given leave from prison for medical treatment ... .
Iran’s leaders now face unprecedented peril. The regime has lost its footing, and the global mechanisms to avoid conflict no longer work. Dr Sanam Vakil is the director of Chatham House’s Middle East and North Africa programme ... ....
PresidentMasoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that he supported “equitable negotiations.” Talks are expected on Friday, as diplomats work to defuse the crisis ... .
Iran is enduring one of the darkest periods in its modern history ... Yet Iran is not like most other countries ... For journalists outside Iran, this makes reporting difficult ... Sanam Mahoozi is a freelance reporter for The New York Times focused on Iran. .