On Tuesday, February 3, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement announcing that it has established direct and intensive contacts with Tehran at the highest political and diplomatic levels in an effort to prevent the outbreak of a broader crisis.
Awatoday has learned that Fariborz Heydari, an environmental photographer, has been arrested by the military–security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
HRANA News Agency, the media arm of the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists (HRA), announced that Iranian authorities have arrested more than 50,000 people during the crackdown on nationwide protests, with new arrests still ongoing.
The Bahá’í International Community says that the Islamic Republic, alongside its suppression of recent protests, has intensified pressure and persecution against Bahá’ís, Iran’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, and is using state media to portray this community as responsi
According to information received by Awatoday, a large number of Hashd al-Shaabi militants have entered Iranian Kurdistan and have been deployed in Qasr-e Shirin.
Ansar al-Furqan announced on Monday evening, February 1, 2026, that it had carried out an attack on a vehicle carrying militants of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) near Zahedan.
A group of Iranian ophthalmologists, in an open letter addressed to the heads of the three branches of government and to military, security, and judicial authorities, have expressed grave concern over the rising number of severe eye injuries and permanent blindness resulting fro
According to received information, amid the ongoing massacre of the Iranian people during the January 2026 uprising, Ali Javid, born in 1987, was killed on January 8, 2026, on one of the streets of Mashhad, after being shot directly by forces of the Islamic Republic.
The reports note that the Iranian terrorist regime’s seizure of the bodies targets both the identity and dignity of those killed, in an effort to prevent the publication of images and the holding of memorial ceremonies.
Bob McNally, founder of the Rapidan Energy Group and a former White House energy adviser, has estimated the probability of a U.S. military strike against the Islamic Republic in the coming days or weeks at around 75 percent.
