Sources: Chron Santa Cruz Sentinel
Iran appoints Abdolnaser Hemmati as the new leader of the Central Bank following protests over the Iranian rial's value depreciating and the previous governor's resignation. 2025-12-31
Jaish ul-Adl militants attack a police station in Rask, Sistan and Baluchestan province, Iran, killing eleven officers and wounding others. Several gunmen are also killed in the ensuing shootout. 2023-12-14
Iran agrees to provide Russia with medium-range missiles, surface-to-surface missiles and combat drones for the war in Ukraine. 2022-10-18
Iran reports a record 10,463 new cases in the past 24 hours, bringing the nationwide total since the pandemic began to 692,949 cases. 2020-11-9
An Iranian female football fan, Sahar Khodayari, dies one week after setting herself on fire outside a court, reportedly after learning she may have to serve a six-month sentence for trying to enter a football stadium alongside men. 2019-09-9
The United Kingdom announces it is joining a United States-led naval mission in the Persian Gulf to protect oil tankers, following several seizures in international waters by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 2019-08-5
Reporters Without Borders releases their annual report regarding press freedom around the world with 71 journalists killed in 2013 so far. The deadliest countries are Syria, India, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Somalia while the worst jailers are China, Turkey, Eritrea, Iran, and Syria. 2013-12-19
Iranian Ali Aghazadeh Dafsari claims that Revolutionary Guard forces shot down a U.S. spy drone over the Fordo located uranium enrichment facility. 2011-07-20
Iranian authorities halt the impending execution of a Kurdish student convicted of "enmity against God", in connection with alleged membership and activities on behalf of the militant Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan (PJAK), following appeals by international organizations claiming that his trial was held behind closed doors and his lawyer was not allowed to be present. 2010-12-26
At least a dozen Iranians are killed and 81 are wounded in a bomb attack on a military parade in the Kurdish town of Mahabad according to reports from Iranian Arabic language television Al-Alam. 2010-09-22