Nine were killed and 22 injured during a Saturday morning attack on a courthouse in Zahedan, Iran, Iranian Interior Minister Eskandar Momeni announced.

After a five-year drought and decades of mismanagement, Tehran is at risk of running out of water in several weeks, the government warned.

An account linked to Israel's national intelligence agency, Mossad, said Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spends his days sleeping and getting "high on substances."

Officials in the Islamic republic are seeking to rally a population rattled by war and increasingly averse to the Muslim theocracy’s dominant ideology.

Iran has executed two members of the exiled opposition group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq. The judiciary’s official news website reported on Sunday that Behrouz Ehsani Eslamlou and Mehdi Hasani were hanged after being convicted of attacking public and civilian infrastructure.

Authorities have said several Afghans were arrested on espionage charges and found in possession of bomb- and drone-making manuals, although the claims have not been independently verified

The MEK, known in English as People's Mujahideen Organisation of Iran, were a powerful leftist-Islamist group that staged bombing campaigns against the shah's government and U.S. targets in the 1970s but ultimately fell out with the other factions of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

It is another symbol of deepening strategic cooperation between Russia and Iran, a point of concern for U.S.-led Western allies.