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An airstrike on the compound killed seven Iranian officers on Monday - among them one of Iran's top soldiers, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC)

Iranian commanders thought embassy safe from Israeli strikes • Tehran investigating possible intelligence leak - Iranian official


Iranians have begun voting in two elections that will usher in a new parliament and Assembly of Experts as opinion polls project a low turnout amid calls for a boycott of what many see as "engineered" balloting.

The killing of a young Afghan street sweeper in the Iranian capital has led to suggestions that he fell victim to "one of the regime's fire-at-will nightcrawlers."

Several people have been detained in Iran for allegedly calling for a boycott of parliamentary and Assembly of Experts elections scheduled for March 1.

A German-Iranian woman has been ordered back to jail in Tehran after several weeks of medical leave despite mounting concerns over her health, her daughter said on February 29.

Operatives from Iran and its Lebanese ally Hizballah are working inside Yemen to support Huthi insurgents' attacks on international shipping, the U.S. special envoy for Yemen told a Senate subcommittee on February 27.

Iran's March 1 elections will usher in a new parliament and Assembly of Experts, a body that picks the country's supreme leader. But in dozens of audio and written messages sent to RFE/RL's Radio Farda from inside Iran, many people said they will not vote in what they said will be unfair elections.

Jailed Iranian dissident rapper Saman Yasin, who was detained in 2022 and has detailed harrowing accounts of physical and psychological torture he has endured, has made a plea from prison to Iran's judiciary to "issue my death sentence" rather than continue holding him indefinitely without a trial. 

Despite cutting its supplies of enriched uranium, Iran increased its total stockpile of the radioactive element, the IAEA said.