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IranWatch

Oct 27, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 27, 2025

Brief Notes Taliban Visits Tehran, Deputy FM Visits Kabul: Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi arrived in Kabul yesterday to discuss water management, border issues, and judicial cooperation with Taliban officials. Tehran’s embassy in Kabul stated that the visit is in line with the regime’s...

IranWatch

Oct 24, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 24, 2025

Brief Notes Military Complex Employee Sentenced to 12 Years: Ghodratollah Jooyar, a 33-year-old employed at the Parchin military complex in Tehran Province, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by the Military Court of Tehran. Detained since June 20, 2025, during the 12-Day War, he faced...

IranWatch

Oct 23, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 23, 2025

Brief Notes Security Chief Calls Gaza Peace Summit a ‘Joke’: Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani dismissed the Sharm el-Sheikh peace summit on Gaza as “a joke,” accusing participants of hypocrisy for “posing as peacemakers” after “two years of an oppressive war against...

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Oct 22, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 22, 2025

Brief Notes Subway Outage Sparks Pro-Pahlavi, Anti-Khamenei Chants: A malfunction on the Tehran Metro yesterday sparked public chants against Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and in support of the Pahlavi dynasty. Passengers were filmed shouting “Reza Shah, bless your soul,” “Death to Khamenei,” and...

IranWatch

Oct 21, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 21, 2025

Brief Notes State TV Broadcasts Home Addresses of Diaspora Commentators: State broadcaster IRIB aired a report today revealing what they claimed to be the home addresses of Israel-based journalists working for the diaspora network Iran International, along with the Persian-language IDF...

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Oct 20, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 20, 2025

Brief Notes U.S. Envoy Says Regime in Iran ‘Last Obstacle to New Middle East’: U.S. Special Envoy for Syria Tom Barrack said that the Islamic Republic in Iran remains “the last obstacle to a new Middle East,” urging Syria’s reintegration and Lebanon’s separation from Tehran-backed Hezbollah to...

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Oct 17, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 17, 2025

Brief Notes Tehran to Mobilize 80,000 ‘Clothing and Chastity’ Enforcers: Tehran’s provincial branch of the Department for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice plans to mobilize an 80,000-strong “volunteer” force to deal with the “clothing and chastity situation” in the capital. The...

IranWatch

Oct 16, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 16, 2025

Brief Notes Security Council Chief Delivers Supreme Leader’s Message to Putin: Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani visited Moscow today to deliver a message from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to Russian President Vladimir Putin. State media reported that the message...

IranWatch

Oct 15, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 15, 2025

Brief Notes U.S. Halts Consular Services for Citizens in Iran: Today, the U.S. Virtual Embassy Iran announced that, “Effective October 15, 2025, routine consular services will no longer be available to U.S. citizens in Iran. This includes acceptance of applications for full-validity passports,...

IranWatch

Oct 14, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 14, 2025

Brief Notes Iranian Starlink Users Risk Execution: The Islamic Republic is set to enforce a new law imposing the death penalty for users who employ Starlink satellite internet with “intent to confront the regime,” marking the first time globally that the use of such technology has been criminalized...

IranWatch

Oct 10, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 10, 2025

Brief Notes $15M Reward for Info on IRGC Money Launderers: The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $15 million for information leading to the disruption of the IRGC’s operations, specifically flagging two Iranian nationals, Mehdi Farshchi and Majid Nili, accused of supplying...

IranWatch

Oct 9, 2025

IranWatch Daily: October 9, 2025

Brief Notes Rosatom Deputy CEO Visits Tehran: Yesterday in Tehran, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Mohammad Eslami, met with Rosatom Deputy CEO for International Relations Nikolay Spassky. The visit comes after the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the two...