Black smoke rose over Tehran as flames tore through a commercial market on Tuesday, the latest in a series of fires and explosions across Iran.

Images that capture the scale of the brutally suppressed protests that swept Iran between December 28 and January 11 are rare. Some NGOs report at least 18,000 people dead. Iranian photographer Yalda Moaiery managed to transmit her images of the January 8 demonstrations and the funeral of a man killed by the regime.

Iran protests entered day 24 with 4,519 confirmed deaths. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei backs security forces amid nationwide demonstrations.

Firefighting teams arrived at the scene in Tehran's Jannat Abad neighborhood, attempting to extinguish the fire. It remains unclear if the fire was directly related to anti-regime protest activity.

Just weeks after thousands of Iranians were killed in a brutal crackdown on dissent, life in the capital appeared to be back in full swing here on Tuesday. But the air of normality masks an uneasy truth – that many here feel trapped between the Iranian government’s rhetoric and US President Donald Trump’s threats of military action.

Tehran is running out of water. Rationing has begun in Iran’s capital city, with some of the approximately 10 million residents experiencing “nightly pressure cuts” between midnight and 5 a.m. The entire country is in an unprecedented drought, facing ...

There are currently around 35,000 U.S. troops in the Middle East.

Tehran, a metropolis of over 15 million people, is now regularly mentioned as a city that is nearing its “Day Zero” – the moment when a city’s taps run dry. This is not unprecedented for a major city. All cities that have recently faced Day Zero ...

"Tehran is like a ghost town," said one resident Tuesday night as explosions lit up the city. The usual hustle and bustle had vanished on the sixth day of escalating conflict with Israel. Shops were shuttered, including the historic Grand Bazaar, streets ...

The United States announced a new package of sanctions Friday aimed at crippling Iran’s covert oil-export infrastructure known as the “shadow fleet.” The Trump administration’s push to squeeze Iran economically comes just hours after negotiations between Washington and Tehran wrapped up in Oman.