Terming the Ukrainian and Western claims that its military drone are being used by Russia in attacks on Ukraine as baseless, Iran has said it was ready for talks with Kyiv to clarify claims that Islamic republic was supplying weapons to Russia. Iranian foreign ministry said that such claims were...

Iran's vice president for economic affairs, Mohsen Rezai, is wanted by Argentinian special prosecutors for alleged participation in the planning of the July 18, 1994 bomb attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association, or AMIA, which killed 85 people and wounded 300. Special prosecutors submitted a petition to Argentina's foreign...

Iran vowed an "immediate" response to the European Union as it prepares new sanctions on the Islamic republic after over a month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death. EU foreign ministers met to adopt sanctions on Iran after Amini was detained for allegedly breaching Iran's strict dress code for...

Accusing the US President Joe Biden of "inciting chaos" after he expressed support for protests in Iran, President Ebrahim Raisi said that "the enemy's plot" should be countered by effective measure to resolve people's problems. The country has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini's death in custody.

Iraqi firebrand cleric Moqtada Sadr's movement announced its refusal to join a new government being formed by prime minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani.

Iran has rejected allegations that it has supplied Russia with weapons "to be used in the war in Ukraine", its foreign ministry said. Kyiv and many of its Western allies have accused Moscow of using Iranian-made drones in attacks on Ukraine. The topic is expected to be discussed by European...

The Mesopotamian Marshes, a UNESCO World Heritage site, have been battered by low rainfall and reduced flows in the Tigris and Euphrates rivers due to dams built upstream in Turkey and Iran. Oil-rich Iraq, battered by decades of war, is also the world's fifth-most vulnerable country to some key effects...

A wave of unrest has rocked Iran since the 22-year-old Kurdish woman died on September 16 after her arrest by the morality police in Tehran for allegedly violating the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women.

Siamak's brother, Babak Namazi, said in a statement Saturday that Iranian authorities had granted his sibling a further three-day furlough and that he hoped a longer extension would follow.

Taking exception to what it calls interference in its internal affairs, Iran has summoned British ambassador Simon Shercliff to hear a protest over 'meddlesome statements' on the unrest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini. Iran said that it rejects and strongly condemns "fake and provocative interpretations".

Widespread street demonstrations sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, who died following her detention by morality police for allegedly breaching the country's strict Islamic dress code, are in their third week.

Iran and United States have arrived at a deal to exchange prisoners and unfreeze Iranian funds abroad, according to media reports. The deal includes freedom for eight people held in the custody of two countries. The exchange will follow a UN statement last week that a former UNICEF official was...

"Efforts are underway with the European coordinator and other mediators, including the foreign ministries of neighboring countries, to exchange messages to reach an agreement, said Nasser Kanani, Iran's foreign ministry spokesman.

A day before the UN-mediated truce is to expire, Houthi rebels have warned that the ceasefire in Yemen is at "a dead end". The temporary ceasefire that took effect in April has allowed for some humanitarian measures as the warring sides have by and large adhered to the truce.

While Iran is struggling to contain rising wave of protests over the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in morality police custody, its forces are now involved in gun battles in the Southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan. At least 19 people including a Revolutionary Guards colonel were killed on Friday.

The September 16 death of Kurdish Iranian woman Mahsa Amini, 22, while in the custody of Iran's morality police has sparked a major wave of protests and a crackdown that has left dozens of demonstrators dead. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has accused the Iraq-based Kurdish groups of "attacking and infiltrating...

In a bilateral meeting last week during the UN General Assembly, Guterres "stressed to President Raisi the need to respect human rights, including freedom of expression, peaceful assembly and association," spokesman Stephane Dujarric said. "We are increasingly concerned about reports of rising fatalities, including women and children, related to the...

Hashemi, a former lawmaker and a women's rights activist, has had previous run-ins with the law in the Islamic republic. In July, she was charged with carrying out propaganda activity against the country and blasphemy in social media comments. Hashemi was reported to have said Iran's demand for the Revolutionary...

The country's clerical regime could slide towards a military dictatorship with IRGC holding the absolute sway, says Ali Alfoneh of Arab Gulf Institute in Washington.

Hundreds of demonstrators, reformist activists and journalists have been arrested amid the mostly night-time demonstrations that have spread to scores of cities since unrest first broke out after Amini's death on September 16.

Calling for an end to the mandatory Islamic dress code for women in force since 1983, the Union of Islamic Iran People's Party, the country's main reformist party, appealed to the authorities to wind down the activities of the morality police charged with enforcing the dress code.

Amini died after spending three days in a coma after her arrest by Iran's morality police, a unit responsible for enforcing the Islamic republic's strict dress code for women. Activists said she suffered a blow to the head in custody but this has not been confirmed by the Iranian authorities,...

For the past 10 days, various officials have suggested the deal - which US then-president Donald Trump scrapped in 2018 - might not be renewed until at least mid-November, a deadline that Lapid has tried to use to push the West to impose a tougher approach in their negotiations.

Amini, 22, died last week after her arrest by the Islamic republic's feared morality police for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an "improper" way, and news of her death sparked widespread outrage. Protesters have been heard shouting "death to the dictator" and "woman, life, freedom" in video footage shared...

Amini, a Kurd, had been detained for allegedly wearing a hijab headscarf in an "improper" way, and died at a Tehran hospital after having spent three days in a coma. Public anger has flared over her death, and at least six protesters have been killed in nationwide demonstrations, according to...

Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi is the target of the complaint for his role as a judge in the 1980s when thousands of people were sentenced to death in the country. A group of Iranian dissidents and ex-prisoners filed a civil suit in New York against Raisi while he attended the...

Musk had initially announced that the Starlink satellite internet service had been made available on every continent "including Antarctica" with the company planning to launch up to 42,000 satellites to boost connectivity.

The Biden administration says the deal remains the best way to restrict Iran's nuclear program but has been increasingly pessimistic that Tehran will agree to a compromise negotiated by European Union mediators.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Monday that unequal education was quickly dividing the planet as he sought to keep development on the agenda ahead of a week of diplomacy focused on global crises. The UN chief called a special summit on education a day before world leaders meet for the...

"We cannot trust the Americans because of the behavior that we have already seen from them. That is why if there is no guarantee, there is no trust," he told CBS News. Former president Barack Obama negotiated the agreement under which Iran drastically scaled back nuclear work in return for...

Iran wants billions of dollars in US assets to be unfrozen and returned to it, while the US says money must go to victims of terrorist attacks blamed on Tehran. Tehran took Washington to the Hague-based ICJ in 2016 after the US Supreme Court ordered some $2 billion in Iranian...

Tensions spiked in northwest Iran after the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody, sparking off protests in the region. She was on a visit with her family to Tehran when she was detained by the police unit entrusted with the job of enforcing the country's strict dress code for...

Five Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike near Damascus airport, according to Syrian state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said that the strikes also killed two Iran-backed fighters. Israeli airstrikes in June put Damascus airport out of service for nearly two weeks.

Less than a month after signs emerged of a possible signing of the nuclear deal, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that negotiations to bring Iran and the US back are in stalemate. He has been the main driver for more than a year to try to revive the...

Iran is keen to broaden its relations with the UAE, six years after the diplomatic tussle between Iran and other Gulf states saw minimal diplomatic interactions. Iranian Foreign Minister was speaking while welcoming the new Emirati ambassador back to Tehran.

Showcasing its growing rift with the Western world, Vladimir Putin will meet China's Xi Jinping and other Asian leaders in a regional summit in Samarkand. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization was set up in 2001 as a political, economic and security organization to rival Western institutions.

The comment came after Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, on Monday expressed hopes that Iran would start cooperating "as soon as possible" with the investigation. The IAEA has been pressing the Islamic republic to explain the previous presence of traces of nuclear material at three...

The International Atomic Energy Agency had said in a report it "cannot assure" the peaceful nature of Tehran's nuclear program. Its findings further complicated diplomatic efforts to revive a landmark 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and major powers, including the United States.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Iran has failed to agree to proposals from European countries on reviving a deal on restricting its nuclear program, warning this would derail any accord in the near future. Meanwhile Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid visited Germany to persuade Western powers to ditch the pact...

Momentum that built towards a restored agreement last month appears to have slowed, after the three European nations party to the agreement Germany, France and Britain on Saturday raised "serious doubts" about Iran's sincerity in restoring the deal.

Castigating the three European powers for an “unconstructive” statement about negotiations aimed at reviving a 2015 nuclear deal, Iran has asked Germany, France and Britain to provide a solution to end what it called as disagreements “instead of entering the phase of destroying the diplomatic process.”

The year-old program operates numerous unmanned surface vessels, or USVs, in the waters around the Arabian peninsula, gathering data and images to be beamed back to collection centers in the Gulf. The program operated without incident until Iranian forces tried to grab three seven-meter Saildrone Explorer USVs in two incidents,...

Iran's latest reply on a nuclear deal is a step "backwards," US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday, insisting Washington would not rush to rejoin at any cost. European mediators last month appeared to make progress in restoring the 2015 accord as Iran largely agreed to a proposed final...

The US Treasury said it had placed Tehran-based Safiran Airport Services on its sanctions blacklist, two months after the White House divulged intelligence that Russia was seeking Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for its war on Ukraine.

The UN atomic watchdog has warned Iran has enough enriched uranium to make a bomb in three weeks and that there is no guarantee that its nuclear program is peaceful. The IAEA said it was “concerned that Iran has not engaged with the agency on the outstanding safeguards issues."

US has threatened to launch ‘further action’ against Iran for what it called an ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack against its ally Albania. US has accused Iran of threatening the security of a US ally and setting a troubling precedent for cyberspace. Albania in retaliation has cut off diplomatic relations with Iran.

Tehran, Iran - Iran said Monday it hopes to see US sanctions eased or lifted to allow it to sell natural gas to Europe, easing the continent's shortfall as Russian energy exports are restricted. "Given Europe's energy supply problems triggered by the Ukraine crisis, Iran could provide Europe's energy needs...

Nearly a week after the US said Russia was receiving Iranian combat drones to be used in the Ukraine war, Iran says that it is looking to buy Sukhoi Su-35 fighter jets from Russia. Both the countries are under international sanctions, Iran for pulling out of the nuclear deal and...

The Iranian defense ministry has "provided 51 cities in the country with the necessary installations and equipment for passive defense, said deputy defense minister Mehdi Farahi. He added that the ministry is "now able to identify the threats thanks to the infrastructure put in place to confront all sorts of...

Three days after it seized a US military drone vessel in the Gulf, the Iranian navy took control of two American drone vessels in the Red Sea before releasing them. Iranian state media aired footage on Friday purporting to show the two US vessels being released by Iranian forces on...