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Iran Uses Gulf Islands to Tighten Grip on the Strait of Hormuz

Fortified outposts give Tehran leverage to police shipping lanes, including reported transit tolls.

Iran Accuses US and Israel of War Crime After Reported Damage to Tehran’s Golestan Palace

Iran Reports 4.3 Quake as Satellite Review Points to Possible Natanz Access Hits

IndiGo Extends Cancellations on Tbilisi, Almaty, Baku and Tashkent Routes to March 28

Rains Turn Iran’s Hormuz ‘Red Beach’ Coastline Crimson in Striking Natural Event

IRGC Says Three Personnel Killed Near Zahedan in Border Attack

Iran’s IRGC Navy Fires Ballistic and Cruise Missiles in Gulf Drill, Warns Off U.S. Warships

Iran’s Hyrcanian World Heritage Forests Burn Into Second Week as Aerial Support Deploys

Iran Says It Must Relocate the Capital as Tehran’s Water Emergency Deepens

Iran Expands Cloud-Seeding as Driest Fall in 50 Years Triggers Rationing Plans

Tehran Water Emergency Deepens as President Warns Rationing Without Rain

Tehran Begins Night Water Cutoffs as Iran Moves to Periodic Rationing

Satellite Study Finds 9-Centimeter Uplift at Iran’s Taftan Volcano

Study Finds Iran’s Taftan Volcano Is Dormant, Not Extinct, After Months of Uplift

Record Temperatures Over 50°C Trigger Widespread Water Blackouts in Iran

Jaish al-Adl Militants Kill Five in Zahedan Courthouse Attack

Terrorist Attack on Zahedan Courthouse Leaves Eight Dead

Iran Weighs Relocating Capital as Heat and Drought Leave Tehran’s Reservoirs Nearly Dry

Iran Opens Central and Western Airspace to International Overflights

Singapore and Malaysia Evacuate Citizens From Iran in Coordinated Operation