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Actors, athletes and TV presenters express widespread frustration with leadership
The protesters struggling for greater freedom and a decent livelihood are gambling with their lives
Cover-up over air crash marks a new low for Revolutionary Guards
Details start to emerge as information blackout is finally lifted
Necessary cuts to petrol subsidies expose the regime’s weakness
Thousands take to streets after fuel subsidies cut by 50% to cope with tough US sanctions
Sign of escalating tensions with hardliners as Islamic republic increases nuclear activity
President Hassan Rouhani says country will begin injecting gas into centrifuges
Dissident disappears only to turn up on state TV in Tehran regretting his opposition
Economy contracts by 9.5 per cent in 2019 although government insists worst is over
The country’s political and business elite is being targeted in a drive that some fear could be exploited to suppress reform
Tehran will not negotiate with Washington with sanctions in place, leader tells UN
Officials continue to debate response to alleged Iranian attack on Saudi oil facilities
Football fan Sahar Khodayari was arrested for attending match dressed as a man
Meeting between Iranian and US leaders had been mooted at the G7 summit in France
Tehran believes Revolutionary Guards’ strategy shows it can stand up to Trump
Tanker seizures raise stakes in increasingly belligerent standoff between west and Tehran
Tehran said vessel had failed to observe international maritime rules
Iranian leader wants Washington to return to the 2015 nuclear deal
Britain says three gunships tried to bar vessel in Strait of Hormuz amid rising tension
Iran’s president describes operation as ‘very cheap, wrong and a mistake’
Iranians voice disquiet in president’s stronghold as sanctions bite and food prices rise
Trump threatens to respond to future attacks with ‘overwhelming force’ and ‘obliteration’
John Bolton warns Tehran not to confuse American ‘prudence for weakness’
Secretary of state says US will engage while maintaining pressure
