Four Americans who were jailed in Iran were transferred to house arrest following hectic parleys between both countries that involved a deal to unlock Tehran’s trove of billions of dollars that are frozen in South Korea and the US due to the sanctions.

Iran moves 4 US prisoners to house arrest in exchange for access to locked billions of dollars funds

Iran's semi-official media said on Wednesday (August 9) that Tehran has obtained supersonic cruise missile technology. Amid simmering tensions between Iran and the United States over military deployments, this announcement will likely heighten Western concerns about Tehran's missile capabilities.

Iran claims it has technology to build supersonic cruise missile

The ambitious Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline has been shelved. The project has the potential to change the energy and perhaps the political landscape of the region but it has now been shelved, apparently under US pressure.

Explained | The Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline: History, controversy and impediments

Bosch, a prominent German engineering company, reportedly supplied a significant number of CCTV cameras to Iran, an investigation has claimed. These cameras are allegedly used by Iranian authorities to monitor women who resist the country's strict Islamic laws, as per accounts from activists within Iran.

Germany's Bosch aided Iran's efforts targeting anti-hijab women and protesters: Report

In a recent development, Pakistan has decided to temporarily shelve a significant gas pipeline project aimed at importing cost-effective energy from neighbouring Iran.

Pakistan temporarily halts multi-billion dollar gas pipeline project with Iran amid US pressure: Report

Just last week, Iran's foreign minister urged Pakistan to complete its part of a much-delayed gas pipeline between the two countries. And now, Pakistan has pulled out. Tehran says it has already invested $2 billion in the pipeline on its side of the border. Here's a look at what's been happening.

Cash-strapped Pakistan abandons Iran gas pipeline project; US pressure over sanctions | Details

Iran's government is forcing women to seek psychiatric help as part of their efforts to enforce laws that mandate covering their heads, often with hijab. Healthcare organisations have cautioned that the country's judiciary is misusing psychological treatments, while others view this action as a sign of the government's struggle to maintain hijab rules, France24 reported.

Iran sends women defying hijab rule for psychiatric help

After meeting with Yoshimasa Hayashi, the prime minister of Japan, and Katsunobu Kato, the minister of health, labor, and welfare, Hossein Amirabdollahian had a meeting with Fumio Kishida on Monday in Tokyo.

Tokyo: Iran's foreign minister welcomed by Japanese PM Kishida

Iranian women flouting the hijab mandate are being sent off to psychological centres. The country's judiciary is hijacking psychiatric medicine for its own purposes. To what lengths will the Iranian regime go to impose itself on women? Molly Gambhir tells you more.

Gravitas: Iran sends women to psychiatrist centres for flouting hijab law

At least four Syrian soldiers were killed and as many were wounded after an Israeli missile strike hit near the capital city of Damascus, reported state media Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

At least four Syrian soldiers killed in Israeli air strikes near Damascus: Reports

Britain's home secretary Suella Braverman has said that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is the biggest threat to Britain's national security, amid fresh evidence of its reach into the country.

Braverman calls Iranian state ‘biggest threat to UK’: Report

Iran has drawn criticism from human rights groups from around the world over its decision to execute the Iranian boxing champion Javad Vafaei-Sani. The 27-year-old boxer was arrested in early 2020 for taking part in a nationwide protest in 2019 which was sparked by sudden rise in the price of fuel. The boxer was accused of incitement and deliberate destruction of government buildings Sani was also accused of having connections with the outlawed opposition.

Iranian boxer Javad Vafaei-Sani gets an execution order for taking part in protest

US officials' proposed measure is aimed at stopping Iran from seizing and harassing civilian vessels in international waters.

US officials: Bid to stop Iran from seizing civilian vessels

The authorities are mulling a harsher law on hijab and also the morality police are back on the streets of Iran. Yet again, the hijab headscarf wrapped around the head and necked by women is at the centre of this law.

Iran to bring a draconian law on wearing hijab

Owing to unprecedented heat, the Iranian government on Tuesday (August 1) announced a two-day public holiday, ordering all schools, banks and government agencies to shut down.

'Unprecedented' heat forces Iranian government to order nationwide shutdown

Irab's medical services are next on the list in the continuation of the country's Crackdown on women's rights over the hijab row.

Iran issues 'no hijab means no medical care' circular

Iran is holding its annual Air Force drill, the exercise is significant this time as it comes in the backdrop of US fighter planes flying into the region to deter Iran from seizing US commercial vessels in the Persian Gulf area.

Iran counters US presence in the region

Iranian authorities late Saturday (July 22) banned a film festival that had put out a publicity poster featuring an actress not wearing the hijab. According to a report by the state news agency IRNA, "The culture minister has personally issued an order to ban the 13th edition of the ISFA Film Festival, after using a photo of a woman without a hijab on its poster in violation of the law.

Iran bans film festival that put out poster of actress without hijab

A popular Iranian actress Afsaneh Bayegan has been handed a 2-year prison sentence for not wearing a hijab headscarf in public. According to the local media, Afsaneh Bayegan was arrested after attending a movie premiere without a hijab as she was wearing a hat hence failing to comply with the hijab law. She has been suspended for 5 years.

Iranian actress Afsaneh Bayegan arrested for not wearing hijab

Iranian actress has been handed a two-year suspended prison sentence for failing to were the mandatory hijab headscarf in public. According to local media of Iran, she was sentenced to two years in prison suspended over five years for wearing a hat and failing to comply with the hijab law.

Iran: Actor arrested for not wearing hijab

An Iranian court has given a prominent actress in the country a suspended two-year prison sentence for not wearing the compulsory hijab headscarf in public, said local media on Wednesday (July 19).

Iranian actress handed two-year jail for not wearing hijab, ordered treatment for 'mental disorder'

10 months after Mahsa Amini's death, Iranian police have relaunched morality police patrols to detain women refusing to wear hijabs. Has Iran gone back to square one after months of nationwide protests? Priyanka Sharma tells you more.

Gravitas: Iran: Women's rights become the battleground

After all the violence and all protests that happened in Iran after Mahsa Amini's death in 2022, one would have expected that there would have been some change but Iran seems to be back to square one. The notorious morality police are back on the streets to enforce the dress code that the country mandates for women.

Is Iran back to square one?

The Iranian officials, on Sunday (July 16) announced that it will relaunch patrols by the so-called morality police in a bid to enforce the hijab rule after a reported increasing number of women leaving their hair uncovered in public.

Iran’s 'morality police' returns to enforce hijab law, months after nationwide protests

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