Tehran, Iran-- Iran's foreign minister said Wednesday he held a "friendly conversation" with his Saudi counterpart in Jordan, despite Tehran's repeated accusations that Riyadh has fanned months-long protests in the Islamic republic.Jordan hosted the "Baghdad II" conference on Tuesday, bringing together key Middle East and international players -- including rivals Iran...

The "Baghdad II" meeting in Jordan, which alongside regional powers also includes officials from France and the European Union, follows an August 2021 summit in Iraq's capital organized at the initiative of Macron. "There is a way that is not... a form of hegemony, imperialism, a model that would be...

SWEIMEH, JORDAN - Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian met Tuesday with EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on the sidelines of a summit in Jordan, an Iranian diplomatic source said.The meeting, which was confirmed by Iran's official news agency IRNA, comes at a time when negotiations in Vienna aimed at reviving...

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran's foreign minister said Monday that a summit to take place this week in Jordan will be a "good opportunity" for negotiations aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear accord.On-off talks to revive the deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), started in April last...

Tehran, Iran--A 'terrorist' attack killed four members of Iran's security forces in the country's southeast, the state news agency IRNA reported on Monday.The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were killed "during a terrorist act" in the Saravan region of Sistan-Baluchistan province near the Pakistani border, it said.The region is one of...

On the eve of UN nuclear monitors visit to the country, Iran disclosed that its uranium enrichment capacity has increased to record levels. Its head of the Atomic Energy Organization has said the enrichment capacity has reached more than twice the entire history of this industry.

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran has arrested the lawyer of two female journalists jailed after covering the death in custody of a young woman that sparked three months of protests, a newspaper said Saturday.The Islamic republic has been rocked by protests since Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin, died...

PARIS, FRANCE - Dozens took to the streets Friday in Iran's restive southeast, footage shared by rights groups showed, as a wave of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini's death entered a fourth month.Protesters in Zahedan, the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial capital, chanted "Death to the dictator", taking aim at supreme leader Ayatollah Ali...

Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands arrested in the street violence over Mahsa Amini's d, leading to international condemnation and Iran's removal Wednesday from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

The Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has for years been calling on Iran to explain the presence of undeclared man-made uranium found at three sites, requesting "access to locations and material" as well as the collection of samples.

Paris, France—Iran on Monday executed a second man convicted over the protests that have shaken the regime for almost three months, defying an international outcry over its use of capital punishment against those involved in the movement. Rights groups had at the weekend warned that several other people arrested over...

A day after summoning German envoy, Iran called in the British ambassador to lodge protest as demonstrations shake the country. During the last three months, the envoys from Western countries have been summoned fifteen times as Iran believes protests have been encouraged by its foreign foes.

The EU is set to impose more sanctions on Iran for drone supplies to Russia and a crackdown on protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, European diplomats said. The new measures will target around eight individuals and organizations involved in the manufacture and delivery of drones Moscow has used...

"China will continue to firmly support the GCC countries in maintaining their own security... and build a collective security framework for the Gulf," Chinese President Xi said at the start of the China-GCC summit.

Riot police confronted the crowd in the central Habboubi Square with "brutal" force and "fired live ammunition", said demonstrator Mohammed al-Iraqi, who spoke to AFP at a morgue where dozens of relatives and friends of the two fatalities gathered. Hussein Riyad, a spokesman for the Dhi Qar provincial health ministry,...

The 75-year-old writer, who had received death threats after the publication of his "The Satanic Verses" in 1988, was stabbed several times in the neck and abdomen.

Iran may have abolished its feared morality police, but many of its citizens based in Iraq doubt reports that Tehran has put an end to a force associated with months of protests in the Islamic Republic. It was in the custody of the morality police that Mahsa Amini died in...

The morality police -- known formally as the Gasht-e Ershad or "Guidance Patrol" -- were established under president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to "spread the culture of modesty and hijab", the mandatory female head covering. The units began patrols in 2006.

With talks suspended over a nuclear deal between Iran and the Western countries, Islamic Republic has begun the construction of a new nuclear plant in the southwestern province of Khuzestan. Estimated to cost between $1.5 billion and $2 billion, the plant will take seven years to complete.

The Union of Islamic Iran People Party, formed by relatives of former reformist president Mohammad Khatami, on Saturday demanded the authorities "prepare the legal elements paving the way for the cancellation of the mandatory hijab law".

Lawmakers in crisis-hit Lebanon failed to elect a new president for an eighth time, despite the deepening impact of the political deadlock on the country's economic woes. Lebanon has been without a head of state for a month after president Michel Aoun left office at the end of October with...

Taking offense at France's unanimous vote by lawmakers earlier this week, condemning infringement of liberties and women's rights, Iran's foreign ministry summoned the French ambassador. Iran has been gripped by protests since September over the death in custody of Mahsa Amini after her arrest.

More than 300 people have been killed in Iran since protests erupted over the death in morality police custody of Mahsa Amini on September 16, Brigadier General Amirali Hajizadeh, head of the Guards' aerospace division, said in a video published by the Mehr news agency.

Doha, Qatar—The United States and Iran meet in a politically charged winner-takes-all World Cup clash on Tuesday as England aim to reach the last 16 as group winners with victory over Wales. Ever since the draw for the tournament was made in April, the Group B game between the US...

Iran has seen more than two months of demonstrations sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini. She had been arrested for an alleged breach of the country's strict dress code for women. "In an unprofessional act, the Instagram page of the US football federation removed...

Hardening its stance on the dress code, Iran has fired a bank manager who served an unveiled woman, according to local media even as demonstrations triggered by the mandatory head covering rule shake the country. Women in Iran are required to cover their heads, necks, and hair.

Moradkhani is the daughter of Khamenei's sister Badri who fell out with her family in the 1980s and fled to Iraq at the peak of the war with Iran's neighbor.  

Tehran, Iran---An Iranian rapper who expressed support for anti-regime protests is charged with "corruption on earth" and could face the death penalty, judicial authorities confirmed on Sunday. A US-based rights group had tweeted on Saturday that Toomaj Salehi's trial had begun "without a lawyer of his choice", and his family...

The former USA coach said a series of niggling fouls and the conduct of the Iranian coaching staff during the game was part of a deliberate strategy to make opponents "lose their focus".

TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Saturday that negotiating with the United States would not put an end to the "troubles" that have rocked the Islamic republic over the past two months. Iran has seen weeks of demonstrations sparked by the September 16 death in custody...

There had also been speculation that the Iranian players would not celebrate the goals. But the team erupted into wild celebrations as two late goals were struck against Wales in the final minutes. Former England player and prominent TV pundit Gary Lineker tweeted: "Given the duress Iran's players are probably...

The Islamic republic has launched a series of cross-border missile and drone strikes on Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups, based in Iraq, which it blames for stoking protests back home over the death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. "Iran recently carried out operations against terrorist groups in northern Iraq as it had...

Lawmaker Michel Moawad, who is seen as close to the United States, won the support of 42 of parliament's 128 MPs, but his tally fell well short of the required majority and was exceeded by the number of spoilt ballots cast by pro-Hezbollah lawmakers.

Responding to Iranian calls for the deployment of border guards, Iraq will redeploy federal guards along its border with Iran and Turkey, after repeated bombardments from both neighboring countries against opposition groups in the autonomous Kurdistan region. Iran had publicly urged such a move.

Under a landmark deal struck in 2015, Iran agreed to mothball the Fordo plant and limit its enrichment of uranium to 3.67 percent, sufficient for most civilian uses, as part of a package of restrictions on its nuclear activities aimed at preventing it covertly developing a nuclear weapon. In return,...

Asian champions Qatar became the first home nation to lose their opening World Cup match as Ecuador cruised to a 2-0 victory on Sunday, with veteran forward Enner Valencia scoring twice.

Carrying out a second attack in a week, Iran has launched a fresh wave of strikes against Kurdish opposition groups based in Iraqi Kurdistan on Sunday. Tehran accuses the groups of instigating unrest in Iran, which has been rocked by two months of protests set off by the death of...

Two major opposition groups, the Shiite Al-Wefaq and the secular Waad, were prevented from presenting candidates. These parties were dissolved in 2016 and 2017 respectively. Turnout in the first round was 73 percent, authorities said, but no figures have been released for the second round.

When FIFA announced the deal for direct Israel-Qatar flights on November 10, it claimed that "Palestinian ticket holders and media" would be "able to travel on these chartered flights with no restrictions."

Activists on Sunday expressed alarm that Iran was implementing a major crackdown in a Kurdish-populated town that has seen intense anti-regime protests in the last few days.

Hundreds of mourners poured onto the streets of a flashpoint Iranian city, defying a lethal crackdown on protests over Mahsa Amini's death that shows signs of turning even bloodier. This week's protests coincide with the third anniversary of "Bloody Aban"- or Bloody November - when hundreds were killed in a...

Tehran, Iran— Assailants on motorbikes shot dead nine people, including a woman and two children, during protests in two separate attacks in southern Iran, state media said on Thursday. Three suspects were arrested and the hunt was on for others after Wednesday's first attack on protesters and security forces in Izeh,...

"You guys are used to bending your knees in the games. Some people agree, some people don’t agree with that. And Iran is exactly the same," coach Coach Carlos Queiroz said, according to a video of the press conference. "It is out of question to think that the Iran national...

The UN Human Rights Council said it would hold an urgent session on Iran, with backers pushing for a global probe into the deadly crackdown on mass protests rocking the country. The UN's highest rights body said a special session on "the deteriorating human rights situation" in Iran would be...

Iranian security forces have killed at least 326 people in a crackdown on nationwide protests since Mahsa Amini's death in custody, Iran Human Rights said. Iran has been gripped by protests over the death of Amini on September 16, three days after her arrest for an alleged breach of the...

The festival, running from November 11-19, features emerging directors from across the world who will "shape the cinema of tomorrow", according to Prince Moulay Rachid, who presides over the festival's foundation.

Designed as a punishment for the government of Iran, the EU will likely adopt new sanctions against the Islamic republic next week over its deadly crackdown on protests in the country. The German foreign minister said that the bloc will not let up and that "it stands with the men...

The protests were fanned by fury over the restrictive dress rules for women, over which Amini had been arrested. But they have now become a broad movement against the theocracy that has ruled Iran since the fall of the shah.

The lawmakers also urged the judiciary to "deal decisively with the perpetrators of these crimes and deal with all those who incited the rioters, including certain politicians", they added. Earlier Sunday, state media and the Revolutionary Guards said four Iranian police officers and one "terrorist" had been killed in separate...

Four Iranian police officers and one "terrorist" have been killed in separate incidents in the strife-torn country, state media and the Revolutionary Guards said.