Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran on July 19 to bolster ties with Tehran. In only his second trip abroad after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February, Putin met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iranian authorities have launched a new crackdown on women who violate the country’s “hijab and chastity" law, which requires women and girls over the age of 9 to wear a headscarf in public.
Protests are continuing across Iran as discontent grows over the government's failure to address deteriorating economic conditions one year after President Ebrahim Raisi's election victory.