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Iran's media watchdog banned a popular football commentator’s live program mid-stream, the CEO of Iran's top video-sharing platform Aparat said, in an apparent attempt to muzzle a figure known for outspoken political criticism.

British and French intelligence chiefs have warned of the threat posed by Iran potentially developing nuclear weapons. At the same time, European and Iranian diplomats met in Geneva on Friday for uneventful talks.

Iran raised the stakes ahead of nuclear talks with European powers on Friday, unveiling plans to expand uranium enrichment capabilities and hinting at a potential shift in policy toward weaponization.

New Zealand has announced new sanctions against Iranian actors supplying military support to Russia, coinciding with a week in which Moscow set a record for deploying Iranian drones to strike civilian targets in Ukraine.

Over nine out of every ten barrels of oil Iran exports are sold to China and often at steep discounts, a senior Iranian trade official said, adding that the dependence risks captivity in “colonial trap”.

Iran’s parliament is due to announce next month its Hijab and Chastity Law which adds new fines for violating the theocracy's mandatory hijab rules, speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Wednesday.

Former Iranian foreign minister and presidential adviser Mohammad Javad Zarif told the media in Tehran that Europe should step down from its "high horse" when dealing with Iran, just days ahead of a scheduled meeting with European countries.

President-elect Donald Trump's administration will focus more on Iran, a top potential security official said on Tuesday, and will aim to render the Islamic Republic less financially capable of aiding Russia and US adversaries in the Middle East.

Tehran is due to hold talks later this week with the United Kingdom, France, and Germany after the UN nuclear watchdog issued a censure resolution condemning its lack of transparency and violation of obligations under a 2015 nuclear deal.

A former Iranian minister of intelligence said that investigators have been unable to identify the perpetrators or methods behind the assassinations of several nuclear scientists, underscoring the country's intelligence gap with likely perpetrator Israel.

New bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing the penalties for crimes committed by foreign adversaries targets Iran’s government and the hired criminals it allegedly employs to kill opponents on American soil.

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said on Monday that the world's top court should have sentenced Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to death for war crimes, ramping up his rhetoric against Iran's arch-foe.

Two Iranian political prisoners have been sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in Urmia in separate cases.

Iran has begun deploying advanced centrifuges which enrich uranium for the country’s nuclear program in response to a resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) calling for greater transparency into Iran's nuclear activities.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei confirmed Sunday that Tehran is set to hold nuclear talks with Britain, France, Germany, and the European Union on November 29th in Geneva.

An influential Iranian lawmaker has proposed that Tehran respond to Thursday's IAEA Board of Governors' censure resolution by escalating uranium enrichment levels and initiating nuclear weapon production.

One day after suggesting a new nuclear deal with President-elect Donald Trump, a top advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader tweeted that Iran would avoid a nuclear bomb if the US accepted its terms, including payment of compensation.

Tehran plans to activate a series of advanced centrifuges in response to the IAEA Board of Governors' resolution censuring Iran for its lack of cooperation, according to the deputy head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization.