Behind the missiles and military strikes, Iran's $10 billion poultry industry—the backbone of the nation's food security—endured relentless bombardment but never stopped feeding a population for whom chicken on the table became an unlikely measure of national survival.

Millions of mourners bring several days of nationwide mourning to their climax in Mashhad, as the final farewell ceremony for martyred Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei concludes at the Holy Shrine of Imam Reza (AS).

Iran is building an economy that no longer waits for American permission, fueled by leverage, reform, and the relentless pursuit of sovereign growth.

Iran’s insistence on Clause 1 of the MoU with the United States – requiring a full Israeli military withdrawal from Lebanon and an end to aggression across all fronts – is not an act of symbolic solidarity but a matter of strategic necessity, aimed at preserving and protecting the unified Resistance Front that underpins Iran’s regional deterrence architecture.

Strikes on Iranian universities and tech firms have damaged infrastructure but not the indigenous expertise that has driven the country's sanctions-defying scientific rise, from vaccines to bioreactors exported to Germany.

Iran built a pharmaceutical base producing cheap, high-quality medicines, breaking Western monopolies, so the US and Israel bombed its drug factories and the Pasteur Institute.

Iran is moving forward with small modular reactor technology in cooperation with Russia, aiming to decentralize its grid and achieve 20,000 megawatts of nuclear capacity.